Michele Bachmann Slams Arab Spring As Consequence Of Obama's 'Weakness'

Now the Arab Spring is a bad thing?

Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has taken her special perspective on world affairs to a new level, telling an audience in Concord, N.C., on Thursday that the Arab Spring was the unwelcome consequence of weak leadership from President Obama.

"You want to know why we have Arab Spring?" Bachmann asked in the appearance. "Barack Obama has laid the table for the Arab Spring by demonstrating weakness from the United States of America."

In Bachmann's telling, the widespread popular -- and mostly peaceful -- movements by Arab people to liberate themselves from decades of brutal dictatorships has posed a threat to the safety of Israel, and should not have been allowed to take place.

"[Obama] put a lot of daylight in our relationship with our ally Israel," she added.

In a May speech, President Obama explicitly embraced the revolutions sweeping the Middle East, and confirmed that the U.S. would do everything in its power to help usher them along.

"For six months, we have witnessed an extraordinary change taking place in the Middle East and North Africa," Obama said in the speech. "Square by square, town by town, country by country, the people have risen up to demand their basic human rights. ... It will be the policy of the United States to promote reform across the region, and to support transitions to democracy."

It's not the first time Bachmann has cited negative consequences from the democratic movements in the Middle East. In a speech two weeks ago in L.A., Bachmann referenced the "rise of radical elements" as one unfortunate product of the revolutions.

This week, she upped her criticism of Obama for not doing more to prevent the toppling of the Arab dictators.

"The number one duty of the president is to be the commander in chief," Bachmann concluded.

Comments

[John Cantzon Foster]

09:00 AM on 11/08/2011

There is an Al Qaeda flag flying over Tripoli right now. There was an article about this just yesterday on BBC news. Only time will tell if the Arab spring is a positive thing or a negative one. Before we had dictators in power that we could control. Now we can't be sure what we will have. There certainly have not been any elections so far. And the "freedom fighters" in Libya were recently caught executing black people. That is certainly not what I want happening.

[imanormalalien]

03:08 PM on 10/20/2011

I cannot express in words how stupid this woman is

[carburetor]

06:09 AM on 10/08/2011

Another example of teabagger racism. Michelle probably leases the "arabhead ranch."

[ewing1936]

11:11 PM on 10/12/2011

Great Avitar...

[Aussieposter]

05:49 PM on 10/03/2011

This is a perfect example of the major difference between Australia and the U.S.

We got the convicts and you got the puritans.

Once again showing without doubt that an individual caught stealing a loaf of bread due to hunger is far more intelligent than an individual that believes in witches and wants to burn them.

[TXanimal]

01:31 PM on 10/03/2011

Anyone with even a basic grasp of international relations has seen this coming for years...one could argue, for decades. Good gravy, even Dubya saw it coming!

This woman has proved time and again that she is woefully out of her depth.

http://www.cfr.org/egypt/egypt-protests-show-george-w-bush-right-freedom-arab-world/p23935

[SillyMammo]

01:11 PM on 10/03/2011

What?...no wait...I mean WHAT?!?

[Json]

12:02 PM on 10/03/2011

So her argument is that if only Obama had been more supportive of dictators, than the people seeking change wouldn't have revolted against their leaders?
Maybe we need to have a congressional committee to determine which of our leaders are pro-democracy and which are anti-democracy...

[CaptMike65]

08:53 AM on 10/03/2011

She learned all this while attending ORU. She was there when ol Oral got caught in a scam selling bottles of sand from the holy land. As it turned out he was filling bottles full of sand from the Arkansas river which is located across the street from the ORU campus. Bachmann is still packing sand.
I S**T YOU NOT.

[Oniweeki]

08:47 AM on 10/03/2011

Oh yeah I forgot, if we don't control it, it doesn't count.

[Oniweeki]

08:45 AM on 10/03/2011

This woman doesn't have a clue, she's just flailing. I guess someone forgot to tell her the the fallback excuse for Iraq was to promote Arab Democracy.

[Mile End]

08:24 AM on 10/03/2011

The more irrelevant she gets, the crazier she gets. We might get another couple of weeks of entertainment from her before her funds run out.

[panamadan]

05:05 PM on 10/10/2011

loved that comment

[Ed C Atlanta]

08:01 AM on 10/03/2011

The headline should have read "michele bachmann has now taken DUMBNESS to a new level."

[yumster]

06:56 AM on 10/03/2011

With comments like this, America is becoming the laughing stock of the world. Who is teaching her world affairs?

[panamadan]

05:06 PM on 10/10/2011

palin of course

[Djelem]

06:56 AM on 10/03/2011

Bachmann..............Bachmann...........Rings a bell, just can't place her.

[mrmikes]

06:19 AM on 10/03/2011

This woman is C R A Z Y.