Team Bachmann says Iran embassy comment was 'hypothetical'

[Enrique]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/69492.html#ixzz1fIL4XxAJ

Michele Bachmann's team did a campaign version of a cleanup in aisle 9 tonight, trying to clarify a comment the congresswoman made earlier about how a Bachmann presidency wouldn't allow "an American embassy in Iran."

The comment left some observers scratching their heads, since the United States cut ties with Iran three decades ago.

As the comment took off on Twitter over the last few hours, Bachmann's team put out a statement noting her seat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence - and suggesting she was making a 'hypothetical' based on the developments involving the British embassy in Iran.

She "is fully aware that we do not have an embassy in Iran and have not had one since 1980. She was agreeing with the actions taken by the British to secure their embassy personnel and was speaking in the hypothetical, that if she was President of the United States and if we had an embassy in Iran, she would have taken the same actions as the British," the statement said.

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[ClassWarrior]

1. And until today, Michelle thought that's what they used to give her a shot in the hospital.

NGU.

[niyad]

2. too bad that idiot isn't hypothetical

to team bachmann

unlike your candidate, the rest of us are not stupid, and we know exactly what she meant, and how little she actually knows

[Botany]

3. If it was a hypothetical comment then she would have ......

..... said, "Well hypothetically speaking .... " but no she said that as President she wouldn't allow "an American embassy in Iran."


Cain says all those women are trying to set him up and are working for the democrats.

Newt says he is not a Washington insider.

Perry is just dumb as a sack of doorknobs by not knowing the voting age or when the election will be held.

Mitt comes off as a stuffed shirt.

And Bachmann forgets about the 444 days when Americans were held in Iran.

Clown Car time

[center rising]

4. Hypothetical my ass

She screwed up again. Her campaign can spin it like that, but she screwed up again.

[Turbineguy]

5. When we speak of her high intelligence

it's hypothetical too.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. No it wasn't, it was fucking wrong because their morons..nt

[treestar]

7. BS, then she could have said so

And specifically spoke of what the British did.

She is an idiot.

[rocktivity]

8. Team Rocktivity says that Bachmann herself is "hypothetical" n/t

:headbang:
rocktivity

[montanto]

9. Uh huh. n/t

[Botany]

10. "Her remarks are being taken out of context .....

"Her remarks are being taken out of context, given that she has spoken on this subject several times in the past
24 hours and made it clear that she knew we did not have an Iranian embassy,"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/michele-bachmann-iran-embassy_n_1122956.html?ref=politics

[DCKit]

11. Anyone care to posit a hypothesis about a Bachmann pResidency?

I can imagine some seriously horrible outcomes.

[Cigar11]

12. She'll NEVER EVER be President ... period /n