Posted on 08/11/2011 8:19:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
AMES, Iowa (AP) -- The Bible tells wives to be submissive to their husbands. If she were president, would that apply to Michele Bachmann?
In Thursday's Republican debate in Iowa, the Minnesota congresswoman was asked if she would be submissive to her husband.
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York is not real bright.
Your comment, suggesting that the press removes the context, assumes that the press knows the context. The press does not know the context. The press has absorbed the aroma of the recollection of the context as fed to them by their religiously ignorant parents, who were too embarrassed to give their children an actual religious education.
That was a snarky sexist question. She handled it well and the audience did not like it..Part of me wished she would have smacked York down like Newt did to Chris Wallace.
“it seems the press and left in general always remove this from its context”
That’s because they’re either atheist or New Age wackadoodles and lack the conceptual framework to comprehend, much less explain, 23-33.
“I’ve had it with Fox News. What a bunch of low-life establishment clowns they are.”
I agree with you, but it’s amazing how many lefties think “Faux News” is a den of the extreme right;)
I would have liked to have seen her take apart the moderator’s question... she should have seen that question coming, and she should have been better prepared for it.
I would have advised something like....
“Submitting to my husband means that if he didn’t want me to run, then I wouldn’t be here...
But Submitting to my husband does NOT mean subjecting my responsibility to him if I win.
I would represent the American people if elected president.
My husband understands that responsibility and would respect it. The premise of your question suggests otherwise, and is offensive.”
From now on I get my news from the internet where I can filter out the minor issues like whether Congresswoman will submit to her husband. I have found myself watching CNBC Squawk Box in the morning for no other reason than it has Rick Santelli on. He took apart the muni bond queen Meredith Whitney yesterday when she said the Tea Party was a bunch of angry out-of-work white males.
And that is who I am in those situations. My husband knows me as submissive to his final word.
This is the thing about husbands and wives. My husband makes and is responsible for, those hard emotional decisions that I, as a woman do not want make.
Yes, I know they are right, but my heart leads me elsewhere. In saying this, perhaps, I should submit, that, we should scrutinize the husband of women candidates.
Presidents listen to their wives, and their husbands, after all.
Being a tax attorney she is savvy enough to know that when uncertain, to say less rather than more.
Of course you’re right, but, no one has any interest in representing the truth in context. People are willfully ignorant.
They blew this one, big time. They concentrated on gotcha questions, as Newt pointed out early on, and starting fights between candidates. I would liked to have seen the candidates refuse to answer them, especially the one Byron York Asked of Bachman. That is the same stuff they did about Kennedy and the Pope.
Then they tried to get Herman Cain and Mitt Romney to fight over religion. Bachman and Pawlenty didn't seem to need encouragement. To be fair though, Pawlenty started that rumble but I wish Bachman had ignored him.
Her answer about submission = respect was wrong.
Sounded good... but it was wrong.
You just KNOW that hubby Bachmann's efforts (whether well guided or not, and I know too little about his method to say) to usher willing people out of the homosexual life style will get the lime light. It may well be worth it to force this issue out in the open.
It answered one undefined term with another one. I wouldn’t say it was so much wrong as unilluminating.
Would it not be for accurate to say that the Bible tells CHRISTIAN wives to be submissive to their husbands. Since that Pauline letter was written to the church and not to the general public. One could argue that the NT does not address marriage between two non-believers. They’re issue is their sin and having not yet truly dealing with who Christ was.
You should try FBN.
I would like to know more about Mr Bachmann. He will be scrutinized just as Todd Palin was.
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