Bachmann: I make verbal mistakes because I’m busy all the time
During a press availability following a speech in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Friday, Michele Bachmann was asked about a narrative that hasn’t gone away during the seven weeks she has been a presidential candidate: verbal gaffes.
‘When you speak six times a day, slip-ups can occur,’ Bachmann said.
The comment is the most frank Bachmann has been to date about a series of statements, dating prior to her announcement for president, that have caught notice by the public and in some cases have provoked clarifications from the candidate or her staff.
Appearing as a guest Thursday on a conservative talk radio show, Bachmann made reference to the cold war during a discussion of America’s modern-day position in the world. ‘There’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline,’ Bachmann said. ‘They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.’
Bachmann, of course, meant Russia – the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
Poor Michelle, just 20 years too late…
While it might seem on the surface she has point, the fact is there are many people that speak just as often, if not more often, than she does and seldom make the kind of verbal gaffes she has become known for.
I think this is a really lame excuse. More than likely she is fed her lines from someone/some group and nobody who is writing them bothers to fact check them, they just go with them because they sound good.
