Bachmann: Obama "most dangerous president" ever on foreign policy
(CBS News) In impassioned remarks at Friday's Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., former GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., went after President Obama on foreign policy, calling him the "most dangerous president we have ever had," and directly tying his policies to the recent violence in Egypt and Libya.
© 2012 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bachmann, in remarks at Washington's Omni Shoreham hotel, accused the Obama administration of responding to the chaos - which resulted in the death of four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya - with "weakness and lack of resolve."
"This was an intentional act that was done by radical Islamists who seek to impose their set of beliefs on the rest of the world and we will not stand for it," Bachmann continued. "No one here is suggesting that all Muslims are radical but we should not be ignorant of the objective reality that there's a very radical wing of Islam that's dedicated to the destruction of America, of Israel, and Israel's allies, and what we're watching developing before our eyes today are the direct consequences of this administration's policy of apology and appeasement across the globe."
"I'm no master war strategist," she said, but "appeasement doesn't work."
Bachmann also accused Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of pushing "enforced Islamic speech codes" in U.S. counterterrorism training materials, and sounded alarms about Egypt's ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood, before urging the president to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to stand in solidarity with Israel.
"What he needs to do is cancel his interview with David Letterman, cancel his meeting with Jay-Z, cancel his meeting with Beyonce," she argued, referring to the president's upcoming trip to New York where he'll appear on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and attend a fundraiser with Jay-Z and Beyonce.
The Minnesota congresswoman was one of many speakers on the docket at the Values Voter Forum to mock Democrats over a back-and-forth at last week's convention over whether or not to include the word "God" on the official party platform.
Speaking before Bachmann, actor and producer Kirk Cameron, star of the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains," delivered a lengthy speech that focused heavily on his belief in God's place in American values.
In remarks that ran more than 20 minutes long, Cameron opened up about his personal relationship with Christianity before moving on to discuss the founding fathers, abortion, his upcoming movie, and, in a self-referentially dated reference, Marty McFly, the fictional protagonist of the "Back to the Future" movies.
"I did not grow up in a family of faith. I didn't grow up in a politically active home. Today as an adult I refer to myself as a recovering atheist," Cameron quipped to the audience. He invoked a desire to "go back in time" and talk to the founding fathers about how to lead the nation toward "the place of blessing."
"If only my name was Marty McFly and I had a DeLorean!" he said, before launching into a tale of his journey to discovery about how America can "return to its original factory settings."
Nearly 19 minutes in, he turned to the "sanctity of life" and his belief that "adoption is the answer to the abortion crisis."
"We change only two letters in the word abortion and we get the word adoption and it reflects the heartbeat of God," he said.
Cameron, too, derided the Democrats for the scuffle over the platform language: "According to our forefathers, God is the platform," he said.
Closing out his remarks, the former teen idol urged the crowd to "vote your conscience and values." He did not mention either Mitt Romney or Mr. Obama.
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Tea Bagger seems to be the same as Radical Islamist!!
ZionistCensorship I think you need to read what she said a little more closely. I think your comprehension is a little off.
What Bachmann simply meant was that the Constitution gives us freedom of religion and the right to talk about God anywhere we want to but that right is slowly being taken away from us.
I agree with her!
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JV, the PROBLEM is....you rightwing religious fanatics don't want to just TALK about and PRACTICE your religion...you want to cram it down the throats of those who do not THINK and ACT just like you do. What you want is a theocractic government completely ruled by YOUR religion. Move to Iran and try that out for a while.
We are not having it anymore! We are going to elect people to congress and the presidency who will stand up to the atheist special interest groups in Washington and prevent them from erroding our religious freedoms any further!
And as for your remark telling me to move to Iran, well that isn't going to happen!
My ancestors emmigrated to the New World in the late 1690's. My forefathers have fought in every war that America has been in since the French and Indian wars of the 1730's. They had already been in this country for several generations when the Declaration of Independence was signed and later when the Bill of Rights of US Constitution was written.
My ancestors fought for, and some of them died, for my right to live in this country and for my religious freedom. Therefore, I'm not going anywhere! Besides, in case you haven't heard, Iran is a Muslim country NOT Christian!
Why don't you move to North Korea? You'd certainly learn the true meaning of your words "completely ruled" there! In fact you wouldn't live there six months before you'd be BEGGING to move back! Then when you got here you'd be so glad to be home you'd get down and kiss the ground even if you DO think there's too much of my religion here!
Remember, she's the one who publicly stated that the movie, The Lion King, is a conspiracy to promote homosexuality. She's the one who worked tirelessly to prevent preschool education in Minnesota. Bachmann encourages women to always be submissive to their husbands, with her own creepy marriage to Marcus Bachmann setting the standard. She made the following idiotic statement while campaigning: "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." BLAMING the swine flu outbreak on a PRESIDENT?????? I could go on and on and on....just google "stupid statements by Michele Bachmann" and you will get an endless list.
Anyone who thinks this airheaded bimbo has anything worthwhile or truthful to say needs their head examined.
You need to quit grandstanding! I know it's tough when you've had a taste of the 'lens' but you world travels and global knowledge don't qualify you to make any comments in this arena. You'r a has been; face it!