Friday, August 19, 2011

Bachmann Fears the Threat From the Kingdom of Prussia!

No, Michele Bachmann didn't go that far. But she is concerned about the "threat from the Soviet Union."

I understand the point that blatant ignorance has a part to play in our political system. But isn't it just a bit much to proclaim that there is a threat from a country that ceased to exist twenty years ago?

Bachmann is making Palin look like a PhD candidate in geopolitical studies.

5 comments:

  1. I guess she can't see it from her house.

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  2. Reminds me of Mr. Burns trying to get a telegraph onto the afternoon autogyro to the King of Siam.

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  3. Quite honestly, I'd love for that woman's brain to be scanned for schizophrenia; so many of her statements seem to go beyond the bounds even of her crackpot ideology & alternate reality history.

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  4. Thing is, her base is going to merely be baffled as to why us nasty liberals are making a big deal about this. Remember, her base is the common people, ordinary folk, the common clay of the New West, you know.

    -- Badtux the Bitterly Laughing Penguin

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  5. Whoa. The Prussians are the East Germans, IIRC and weren't, per se, part of the Soviet Union or Russia. They were also, IIRC, the most regimented and bad-ass militaristic of the various flavors of German.
    Anybody correct me on this?

    Some time back, the NYTimes Sunday Magazine did a piece on Poland, which had the Polish jokes told by Poles. One of them (Poland is, of course sandwiched between Prussia and Russia.:
    A Polish soldier is out in a field. From the west comes a Prussian, from the east a Russian. The Pole has one bullet. Q: Which one does he shoot, which one does he close with with his bayonet. A: He shoots the Russian: business before pleasure.

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