Anderson Cooper vs. Michele Bachmann

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http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/bachmann-sounds-off-on-spending-wont-identify-specific-cuts/?hpt=C1

Yeah great lets campaign on wanting to cut government spending but then when shes asked about what she wants to cut down on she makes up a number from an unidentified source that Obama is spending 200 million dollars a day on his India trip which isn't even possible.

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I heard it was true.

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I heard it was true.

I heard Santa Clause brought me presents in December.

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http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/bachmann-sounds-off-on-spending-wont-identify-specific-cuts/?hpt=C1

Yeah great lets campaign on wanting to cut government spending but then when shes asked about what she wants to cut down on she makes up a number from an unidentified source that Obama is spending 200 million dollars a day on his India trip which isn't even possible.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=obamas+trip+cost&aq=f&aqi=g-msx1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CFX_PZa_STNK7HobgzgSGw6TzAgAAAKoEBU_Qn46W

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Even if the dollar amount is off, would you agree that the number of people going and the amount of money they are spending, whether it be $50 million per day or $200 million is excessive given our current economic status? How many people could he provide medical insurance for with that money?

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

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Yeah great lets campaign on wanting to cut government spending but then when shes asked about what she wants to cut down on she makes up a number from an unidentified source that Obama is spending 200 million dollars a day on his India trip which isn't even possible.

Wanna bet?

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Not to mention paying to shut down Mumbai and its roads for two days.

The number may be higher than the actual figure, but when its a huge dollar figure to send the president to India largely to appease the out-sourcing industry in that country, in a time when both spending and outsourcing are under fire can be drawn as an example of the president being out of touch.

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Not to mention paying to shut down Mumbai and its roads for two days.

The number may be higher than the actual figure, but when its a huge dollar figure to send the president to India largely to appease the out-sourcing industry in that country, in a time when both spending and outsourcing are under fire can be drawn as an example of the president being out of touch.

No wonder people in other countries hate us so much.

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No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause than shutting down traffic.

Wendy P.

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No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause than shutting down traffic.

Wendy P.

we're bombing India, now?

we have to stop Obama's war mongering now!

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Even if the dollar amount is off, would you agree that the number of people going and the amount of money they are spending, whether it be $50 million per day or $200 million is excessive given our current economic status? How many people could he provide medical insurance for with that money?

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

Oh no but we can send $7,000,000 a day to Israel to occupy and invade the people of Palestine in a pointless war. Or we can an upwards of $700,000,000,000 dollars in Iraq and $300,000,000,000 in Afghanistan. Get real people...

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Not to mention paying to shut down Mumbai and its roads for two days.

The number may be higher than the actual figure, but when its a huge dollar figure to send the president to India largely to appease the out-sourcing industry in that country, in a time when both spending and outsourcing are under fire can be drawn as an example of the president being out of touch.

No wonder people in other countries hate us so much.

Where are you kids getting your facts? Since when did the people of India hate the United States?

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Well, I can tell you that if the India PM came over here and blocked up the streets I travel on daily for 2 days, I'd hate him for it.

(Apparently, you missed the tongue in cheek response)

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Even if the dollar amount is off, would you agree that the number of people going and the amount of money they are spending, whether it be $50 million per day or $200 million is excessive given our current economic status? How many people could he provide medical insurance for with that money?

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

Oh no but we can send $7,000,000 a day to Israel to occupy and invade the people of Palestine in a pointless war. Or we can an upwards of $700,000,000,000 dollars in Iraq and $300,000,000,000 in Afghanistan. Get real people...

So, you think it's OK to piss away evenmore money on a junket to India? Think about the children who are going to die because they have no health insurance while our president frolics with Belly Dancers.

When do we say enough is enough?

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Even if the dollar amount is off, would you agree that the number of people going and the amount of money they are spending, whether it be $50 million per day or $200 million is excessive given our current economic status? How many people could he provide medical insurance for with that money?

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459

I don't think that the president's trip was the point the OP was trying to make... instead, pointing out the fact that she totally disregarded the question AC laid out for her and immediately deflected it to be about how much the president was spending on the trip.

And if we're on the topic of this trip costing 200M per day:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/india.asp

http://factcheck.org/2010/11/ask-factcheck-trip-to-mumbai/

Looks like it's not true, and to quote the article from factcheck.org: "This story has spread rapidly among the president’s critics, but there is simply no evidence to support it. And common sense should lead anyone to doubt it.

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

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The number may be higher than the actual figure, but when its a huge dollar figure to send the president to India largely to appease the out-sourcing industry in that country, in a time when both spending and outsourcing are under fire can be drawn as an example of the president being out of touch.

Out of touch is putting it very mildly. Rammed a trillion dollar health care spending spree down our throats during a major recession - and had the audacity (or the ignorance) to call it reform.

Admitted in his little speech Wednesday that he was so intent on achieving his goals that he forgot about the promise to reform the way Washington worked (or failed to work?); and basically played the same bully game he promised to change.

Now off spending gobs of money in further attempts at looking good.

Oh yeah, this is the President of Change. Looks like the same old same old to me.

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No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause than shutting down traffic.

Wendy P.

This is what really pisses them off. What a waste of coconuts!

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I heard it was true.

Got a number of how much the AMERICAN people paid for your hero for all of his failed attempts at DIPLOMACY during his VERY long 8 years there ?????


Nah... I am sure that is a number that will not be forthcoming from any of the usual suspects.

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>>>No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

>>Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause
>>than shutting down traffic.

>we're bombing India, now?

India's the only other country out there?

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No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause than shutting down traffic.
Wendy P.

This is what really pisses them off. What a waste of coconuts!

not a complete waste , the libs can hug the trees while they rape them of their seditious fruit !

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No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause than shutting down traffic.

Wendy P.

This is what really pisses them off. What a waste of coconuts!

not a complete waste , the libs can hug the trees while the rape them of their seditious fruit !

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No wonder people in other countries hate us so much

Oh, I think the whole war and bombing them thing is more of a cause than shutting down traffic.

Wendy P.

This is what really pisses them off. What a waste of coconuts!

not a complete waste , the libs can hug the trees while the rape them of their seditious fruit !

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Top ten crazy Bachmann qoutes:


1. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009

2. "I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?" -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008

3. "Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, June 2009

4. "During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed … The government spent its wad by April 26." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, accusing the Obama administration of premature fiscal ejaculation, May 2009

5. "That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions." -Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), a pro-lifer who completely missed the irony of using the same slogan as the pro-choice movement in arguing against health care reform

6. "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009

7. "There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, Oct. 2006

8. "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country." -Rep. Rep. Michele Bachmann, March 2009

9. "Does that mean that someone's 13-year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus? That night, mom and dad are never the wiser." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on health care reform's potential to dupe parents, October 2009

10. "I don't know where they're going to get all this money because we're running out of rich people in this country." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, accusing the Obama administration of plotting to divert money from Republican to Democratic districts and planning to tax the wealthy to fund the windfalls, Feb. 2009