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366. What's the matter with Minnesota?

By Joel Jacobsen

How can a state that produced Scott Fitzgerald, Giants in the Earth and my father produce politicians like these? First the Congresswoman. Now the Minnesota Supreme Court candidate. First there's Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Her remarks about Obama and other Congress members got the press. Her explanation ("I never called all liberals anti-American") made it worse. But I thought the weirdest thing about her Chris Mathews interview was her affect. There appears to have been a bit of a transmission delay, but even so - that smile! Imagine meeting someone at a party whose eyes and lips wore such dramatically different expressions.  And then imagine that this person says bizarrely nasty things in a second-grade teacher's sing-song. She's Jokerishly creepy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).