Agree 100% "longjack"..and we all write that the other side says "this" and "that"..but I must admit is no excuse.
Fox News [by hiring] and other media outlets have overexposed [for media ratings] our best possibles.. they,therefore, become political celebrities/actors and are not taken seriously anymore.
So we are left without a Republican leader, not that I thought Bachmann stood any kind of a chance as President. But, I am disappointed.
...maybe there is no one out there with presidential leadership material, the "right stuff and IT factor".. and we go as a popular comment always made- "the worst of all evils".
I like and respect Bachmann and think that, as ditsy as this statement is, people will understand she under the stress of a campaign and just screwed up.
I hope she learns a lesson and hires local proof readers. It just surprises me that some people want to try to pass this statement off as being correct in some esoteric way.
I grew up in New England and this stuff is baseball & apple pie level US history there.
It was a major gaffe.