September is here, and the Minnesota weather is turning autumn-like right on schedule. It got an early start last weekend when Hurricane Irene cooled things here down a bit, as hurricanes usually do. (I’ve never had a meteorologist confirm that; it’s just my own personal observation.)
Michele Bachmann is no stranger to going beyond the pale. She’s gone out there so many times I don’t even think she can find her way back anymore. Her latest salvo in her one-woman war on sanity is her assertion that “God” is trying to tell us something by sending an earthquake and a hurricane to the eastern seaboard in the same week. Aside from being the standard knee-jerk reaction we’ve come to expect from the likes of Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps, it was just plain poor taste when spoken in a political arena. Later she said she was just kidding, as though that would ameliorate the situation, but to be honest it only makes things worse. How can she make jokes about a natural disaster that claimed at least 40 lives that we know of as of this writing? It’s despicable, and unbecoming of a presidential candidate. Hell, it’s unbecoming as a human beings.
Even if Ms. Bachmann is right, this is pretty lame stuff for “God” isn’t it? I mean, the quake was a magnitude 5.8, which the West Coast would yawn at. And by the time Big Bad Hurricane Irene arrived at the Big Apple, she had dwindled away to a Category 1 storm and some doubt she even deserved that rank. Hardly the caliber of work we’ve come to expect from someone who can rain fire and brimstone and make it rain for forty days and forty nights.
How are ya gonna spin this one, Ms. Bachmann? The epicenter of last week’s quake fell within Eric Cantor’s district. You remember him, he’s your buddy who’s playing politics with the disaster in Joplin, Missouri earlier this year. Now it looks like he’s going to do the same thing to his own district. Oh, well… at least he’s an equal opportunity creep. Think maybe “God” is trying to tell him something?
I do have my own forty lashes coming with the wet noodle. Last week I stumbled across a video where Michele Bachmann takes to the state and proudly asks the crowd, “Who likes white people?” Once I managed to pick my jaw up off the floor, I posted the video to Facebook. But there was one thing that had been edited out of that video, I later found out… “White People” was the name of the band that had just played. (Their full name was actually “White People Soul Band” I believe.) So I had totally misinterpreted her statement out of context. So I apologize to Ms. Bachmann for that. If I don’t then I am no better than Andrew Breitbart or FOX News.
So there, I apologized. Now it’s your turn, Michele.
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