'... and I can see Libya from my house.'
Michele Bachmann says the wave of democratic uprisings in the Middle East is because of Barack Obama. Well, all right, if you say so—but Bachmann didn't mean it as a compliment. No, in Michele Bachmann's mind,
this is a very bad thing:
At a campaign stop Thursday in North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann blamed Pres. Barack Obama for the outbreak of the Arab Spring, the wave of democracy uprisings across the Middle East. [...]
Bachmann linked the Arab Spring, which has resulted in pro-democracy uprisings in countries like Egypt, Syria and Libya, to the President’s earlier stance that negotiations between Israel and Palestine should begin at the 1967 boundaries.
“And when he called upon Israel to retreat to its indefensible 1967 borders, don’t think that message wasn’t lost to Israel’s 26 hostile neighbors,” Bachmann said. “You want to know why we have an Arab Spring. Barack Obama has laid the table for Arab Spring by demonstrating weakness from the United States of America.”
So for Bachmann, citizens in the Middle East rising up against dictatorships to demand democracy is a bad thing. Why, exactly? I'm not sure. It appears that democracy and jihad are indistinguishable to Bachmann; given her constant suppositions that forcing her own religious beliefs on the rest of America constitutes freedom and democracy, however, I suppose it is understandable that she can't quite grasp the difference.