WASHINGTON In just a few days, the fast-rising Republican star Michele Bachmann made two blunders:
- She cried "let's celebrate Elvis' birthday," Aug. 16 that, in fact, Elvis's death.
- She warned fellow countrymen to the threat from the Soviet Union 20 years after the Communist empire's disintegration.
Last Saturday won the congress woman from Minnesota in a non-binding vote in Iowa, where the first showdown of the presidential election campaign in 2012 will take place. Bachmann has made;strong emit thus equated with opinion-leading Mitt Romney and newcomer Rick Perry. That some opinions on several issues, such as slavery and homosexuality, differs somewhat from the American people at large were forgotten.
President Barack Obama said the other day that Perry's threat to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose monetary policies he compared with treason, was that Perry was new in the game and he will learn what to say and not say.
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Note: 19 August 2011