Michele Bachmann Just Posted One of the Most Hateful Obama Rants You’ll Ever Read


Michele Bachmann was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 8 years. Here’s a thing she just wrote on Facebook.

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I need a drink.

Update: The Washington Examiner‘s T. Becket Adams noted earlier today that this is a day old and no one noticed. Once upon a time the media would have pounced on anything Bachmann wrote this incendiary. We had Google alerts set up, damnit! Now? It took a day for the national media to stumble on to this. I mean, I guess this could be considered…progress?

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