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spiral78
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject: Onward Soviet Union!! |
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You've got 'em scared 
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/08/michele-bachmann-soviet-union-/1?csp=34news
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GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann said today that Americans "fear the rise of the Soviet Union" during an appearance on a conservative radio talk show.
The Soviet Union broke up into 15 separate republics 20 years ago. Boris Yeltsin was the first freely elected leader of Russia, the largest of those republics.
"What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward," Bachmann said on Jay Sekulow's radio show.
Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, was trying to explain that Americans are concerned about issues in addition to jobs and the economy.
Bachmann's comment about the Soviet Union is making the rounds in the blogosphere. It was first reported by People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch and picked up by websites such as ThinkProgress, a project of the left-leaning Center for American Progress.
The GOP presidential candidate has flubbed some facts in history before, such as when she mistakenly said that the Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord occurred in New Hampshire. This week, she mistakenly wished Elvis Presley a "happy birthday" on the anniversary of his death |
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ancient_dweller
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The financial crises has certainly made diplomatic relations more difficult. The US is still the chip leader, but not by much. |
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Sashadroogie
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Gasp! Who is the US politician who has rumbled our sneaky Russian plan to pretend the Soviet Union collapsed in order to precipitate rampant global self-eating Capitalism that would inevitably lead to its own demise thus clearing the way for the future utopia preordained by historical dialectic and to a gloriously victorious Motherland of Workers?
Must get my umbrella tip sharpened....Grrr! |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Apparently she's a lot cleverer than I gave her credit for |
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AGoodStory
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, she disguises both her intelligence and her ability to reason brilliantly. |
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