Michele Bachmann: Obama Won Because He’s Black and America Felt Guilty
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is on her last tour in Congress. She’s not seeking reelection and will leave the House after 2014. (A plum cable news gig is almost assuredly waiting for her once she reenters the private sector.) In the meantime, she’s sticking to her usual habits: making offensive statements. In an interview published Wednesday, Bachmann said that Barack Obama won the presidency because white people felt too guilty about past racial injustices. “I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt,” she said in an interview with Cal Thomas, a syndicated conservative columnist.
Bachmann didn’t stop there. She thinks Hillary Clinton has poor odds of winning the presidency in 2016. “People don’t hold guilt for a woman,” she said, explaining that much of the country isn’t prepared to elect a women as president. “I don’t think there is a pent-up desire.”
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