Michele Bachmann: Obama Is Turning America Into 'A Nation Of Slaves'

Speaking at a conservative summit in Denver late last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said she believed America was turning into "a nation of slaves" because of Barack Obama, Democrats and the new health care law.

"We are determined to live free or not at all. And we are resolved that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world," Bachmann said quoting Founding Father John Jay.

Then Bachmann added her own take:

"We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves," she said.

The Republican congresswoman told 600 conservative voters that electing "constitutional conservatives" was the only way to escape the "tyranny" by Democrats over the past 18 months. She again lashed out against the health reform law:

Bachmann claimed the national health care reform package was implemented, in part, under the auspices of Rahm Emanuel's brother Ezekiel, whom Bachmann, appropriating the claims of Betsy McCaughey, said supported the rationing of medical care to only those who were useful to the federal treasury. Bachmann, extending that claim to the administration, said , "It is about being useful not to you, not to others, but to the United States Treasury. How useful are you to the United States Treasury? These people are serious. It makes [Jack] Kevorkian look like Mary Poppins."

She ended her speech by quoting C.S. Lewis: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under a robber baron than under omnipotent moral busybodies..."

"I think this describes so well where we are right now," Bachmann said.

Comments

[LarBear]

08:19 AM on 08/23/2010

OMG.... Bachmann.... singing..... Wacky, wacky, doodle all the Day... The absolute IGNORANCE of wanting "Conservative" Republican's, who have named around 5 Constitutional Amendments, they want to change, to be the Guardians of the Constitution... singing Wacky, wacky, doodle all the Day...

[OldHick]

01:05 AM on 08/07/2010

Michele is an honest person. Check her purse!

She is right. Everyone is Washington wants $100million of our dollars, so we can work for them, and their children - and they robbed us to get the money.

[Jay Jefferson]

02:08 PM on 08/06/2010

Michelle Bachman is a great American. The voters in Minnesota are so lucky to have someone like Michelle to lead them in Congress. I admire her courage for standing up to the radical left wing democrats intent on destroying our great nation.

[Low Prices are Good]

02:13 PM on 07/28/2010

One of the main differences between the slavery of the 1800s and slavery today is you get to pick your job. The ruling class understands that they get to rob more wealth if you get to pick your profession and earn a higher wage. Unfortunately, the statists that occupy this web page have some kind of an attraction to being coerced.

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

05:29 PM on 07/19/2010

The parser is weak. It lets 'cen s or' through, but not that same word absent internal spaces. Weak programming. Trivial fix. I certainly don't encourage it, but I wonder if they'll ever get around to doing a better job. Right now it's frustrating as all golly gosh heck trying to write intelligently here.

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

05:28 PM on 07/19/2010

Nope. The parser sees the word 'cen s or' and holds the post back.

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

05:27 PM on 07/19/2010

Nope. The parser sees the word 'censor' and holds the post back.

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

05:27 PM on 07/19/2010

so I can say tea bagger in one post and not another?

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

05:25 PM on 07/19/2010

She's the queen of tea baggers and a fool.

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

05:25 PM on 07/19/2010

This is a bad woman who lies and distorts constantly to lead her ill-informed flock off the cliff. They want to vote out incumbants? Start with her.

[care4mypeeps]

05:06 PM on 07/19/2010

Michelle Bachman has chains on the brain and can not get pass the slave language that no doubt her ancestors was envolved in.

History has been recorded and some checking into slave history can come up with an explaination as to why she can not come out of the slave era.

It is no accident that every Republican graps tightly this slave language and it seems as if their ancestors have programed a genetic revolt to be activated at the election of an African American President.

Nothing that the Republicans do is an accident, they are deliberate and well rehearsed.


Michelle Bachman and the rest of the Republican Tea Party is fired up and about their business and so we must far exceed the Republicans and counteract their Racist agenda.

The American People know what Michelle Bachman is saying is a bunch of hog wash and it is time to shut this non sense down by putting this kind of racist mess in check.

The Republicans keep on putting sticks on our shoulders and knocking it off while daring us to do anything about it.

It's time to clean their clocks without using violence but out thinking them.

Peace and Love.

[GenomGen]

02:25 AM on 07/20/2010

Well-said, and fannable!

[JLTorres]

04:10 PM on 07/19/2010

I would bet anything this woman has not read an iota of the Health Reform act that passed. Everything to her is a conspiracy. If allowed, she and her band of crypto-fascists, will make corporate slaves out of us all.

[kenneth boch]

12:43 PM on 08/07/2010

By "corporate slave" the liberal means "a person who works a 9-5 job in the private sector. In the liberal mind there can only be government created jobs. Which do you trust more?
Also, who funds government jobs? Answer: taxpayers. We need private sector jobs to generate sufficient tax revenues to sustain this way of living and the only way to stimulate private sector job growth is by reducing taxes. Liberals won't do this because it means taking away government spending programs and entitlements that so many people have grown accustomed to living with.

[JLTorres]

04:17 PM on 08/08/2010

You have absolutely no idea what classical liberalism means or what it represents. You're making generalizations about liberal thought that are not supported by history. By corporate slave I mean working for $3 an hour in some workshop, or even working more than 50 hours a week without compensation or fundamental benefits.

The "way of living" you so proudly tout is slowly going by the wayside precisely because corporations do not want to invest in the American worker because they have decided they cannot afford him anymore and are going elsewhere for cheaper labor. And the Bachmans of the world want to give a blank check to corporations. You are crazy if you think corporate boards have you and me in their best interests. They only care for the bottom line: profits.

[bordway]

12:31 PM on 07/19/2010

It astounds me that she holds an elected office.

[jetskier]

08:15 AM on 07/18/2010

i wonder if there is any truth that M Bachmann will be the new t.v. demonstrator for the
fabulous weight device
SHAKE WEIGHT

In the new advertisement she will be using 2 at a time and
they device comes in red white and blue too..
and also the ebony and ivory black and white limited edition
she be down with stevie wonder...even though he is black...

[panamarine]

04:26 PM on 07/15/2010

Are these words and thoughts coming from an ELECTED official? One who has to be certified sane and competent before accepting office? How did she slip through? Money $$$$, I betcha'.