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Bachmann: Schools should teach intelligent design
CNN ^ | June 17, 2011 | Peter Hamby

Posted on 06/17/2011 5:37:57 PM PDT by ejdrapes

Bachmann: Schools should teach intelligent design
By CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann explained her skepticism of evolution on Friday and said students should be taught the theory of intelligent design.

Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota, also proposed a major overhaul of the nation’s education system and said state administrators should be able to decide how they spend money allocated to them by the federal government.

"I support intelligent design," Bachmann told reporters in New Orleans following her speech to the Republican Leadership Conference. "What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide. I don't think it's a good idea for government to come down on one side of scientific issue or another, when there is reasonable doubt on both sides."

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Go Michele!
1 posted on 06/17/2011 5:37:58 PM PDT by ejdrapes
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To: ejdrapes
Ms. Bachmann obviously had to clear this, too,
with BOTH Mitt Romney and Rollins, first.
She is being set up, step by step.

She is an embarrassment to women AND conservatives.


2 posted on 06/17/2011 5:42:51 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: ejdrapes
I like Michele, but I do not agree. Intelligent design is not science and should not be taught as such.
3 posted on 06/17/2011 5:44:54 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: ejdrapes

Bachmann pushing intelligent design and other “extreme” religious right agenda items will ensure that she and whomever she partners with will lose.

For gosh sakes, don’t go so far right just because the nut in the whitehouse is far left. It’s not worth that gamble of losing.

Center right is the ticket for a win.
Palin/West


4 posted on 06/17/2011 5:45:02 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: ejdrapes

Bump.


6 posted on 06/17/2011 5:47:08 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: ejdrapes
state administrators should be able to decide how they spend money allocated to them by the federal government.

Big mistake. Any conservative candidate should be calling for elimination of the Federal Dept. of Education, and permanent eviction of the Feds from all activities not specifically named in the Constitution.

7 posted on 06/17/2011 5:47:22 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: ejdrapes

I think that this issue is not the hill to die upon. A candidate should not deign to discuss it. I think that evolution is one of the grandest hoax ever perpetrated, but the issue is not in the Top 100 issues for Americans right now. A President could discuss his or her thoughts about ID, but while this position may draw primary voters, it will make victory next November immeasurably more difficult.


9 posted on 06/17/2011 5:50:00 PM PDT by alstewartfan (When you're fresh out of lawyers, you don't know how good it's gonna feel! Al Stewart)
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To: Diogenesis

Still using the picture with the McCain Palin sign in the background.

Pure genius. LOL


10 posted on 06/17/2011 5:50:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Perdogg

>>I like Michele, but I do not agree. Intelligent design is not science and should not be taught as such. <<

It is close to a “middle ground” position as a Conservative candidate can get. I am pretty sure it will never happen but when you get the base, you get the base with all its idiosyncrasies.

We can try to keep this discussion about the wisdom of her position more than fallacies of ID. But we shall see...


11 posted on 06/17/2011 5:50:44 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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Intelligent design is not theory; it is Biblical truth. Science(evolution) is nothing but ever changing guesswork by people with too much liberal schooling.
13 posted on 06/17/2011 5:54:49 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15:1-4 Believe it!)
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To: Diogenesis

oWhy don’t you post those few pics of Palin and Romney at the Tea Party? You know, the one where she said it would be okay to share a ticket with the Mittster. Post that after you post Palin selling McCain as a Tea Party guy too. m’kay?

Then we will be fair.


14 posted on 06/17/2011 5:56:14 PM PDT by dforest
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To: freedumb2003

Is Bachmann a YEC? That’s the death knell nationally.


15 posted on 06/17/2011 5:57:01 PM PDT by magritte ("There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself "Do trousers matter?")
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To: Diogenesis
Oh really. Source for that claim?

Note to the slime merchants. Don't expect to get away with whisper campaigns around here. Every time you slime any of the candidate, you are going to be challenged to put up or shut up.

These sort of scum bag political tactics have NO business being used by Conservatives.

16 posted on 06/17/2011 5:58:09 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: ejdrapes

Thyat’s a vote killer for me. She’s jumped the shark.


17 posted on 06/17/2011 5:58:09 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: ejdrapes
WHAT PART OF LOSE THE TAGLINE DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
18 posted on 06/17/2011 6:00:37 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: ejdrapes

This is too bad. Michelle is not as smart as I thought. She’s being sucked into an infinite morass of “gotcha” social issues the Marxist media is trying to tar her with.

All any GOP candidate for any office needs to do is stick to the following issues:

1. Reduce taxes and spending.

2. Do not increase the deficit.

3. Repeal Obamacare and replace it with real reform.

4. Repeal EPA authority over atmospheric gases.

5. Seal our borders from infiltraters.

6. Repeal all regulations and taxes obstructing the creation of jobs.

No matter what question is asked, you give only an answer for one of the above questions. It’s called “staying on message”, and no matter what you think of him, Scott Brown wrote the book on that, and it’s one of the main reasons he got elected.

I saw GOP candidate after candidate go down in flames in 2010 because they couldn’t keep their mouths shut and stay on message.

I hate to say it, but Michelle’s candidacy is probably over with. She’s already fallen prey to the left-wing’s vicious game of divisiveness.


19 posted on 06/17/2011 6:00:37 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the right stuff!)
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