Posted on 05/10/2012 1:23:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Michele Bachmann no longer wants to be a Swiss miss.
The Minnesota congresswoman asked the Swiss government Thursday to withdraw her citizenship, saying she wanted to make it clear that she was a proud U.S. citizen.
“Today I sent a letter to the Swiss Consulate requesting withdrawal of my dual Swiss citizenship, which was conferred upon me by operation of Swiss law when I married my husband in 1978,” said Bachmann in a statement.
“I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100 percent committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of America. As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, stepdaughter of an Army veteran and sister of a Navy veteran, I am proud of my allegiance to the greatest nation the world has ever known,” she added.
POLITICO, along with Swiss TV, reported Tuesday she was granted Swiss citizenship on March 19.
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One would think you'd want to keep at least one quick "out" available.
I appreciate those great words. To me it is a level of degree. Someone loses my support when they clearly have no real organizational skills to be the chief executive of the United States.
Even if I had no idea who the hell Elvis was I’d think my organization can “brief me” when I’m going to give a speech in Memphis. Or I’d Google it.
Is that too hard these days?
I was in a hurry, since I have a job to go to; serving people I’d rather not associate with-—someone like yourself, miniscule one. On second thought, I’d much rather drink with people I serve than, a “English” critic any day like yourself. Is that English enough for you?
[or started speaking Swiss]
maybe Austrian.....hmmm, maybe German, French or even Italian ;-)
[A second passport is your lifeboat]
Agreed, but your still tied to the US via the taxman.
“Agreed, but your still tied to the US via the taxman.”
Yes, you are correct. But that isn’t the reason one would move. It is to get out of that rotting country being run by mobsters.
I live outside the U.S. and am very happy with my calm surroundings. It is very upsetting to see how the U.S. has been destroyed. And it just gets worse and worse by the day. Folks living within that disaster don’t seem to realize how really bad things are.
Get out of that Titanic while you can.
Bachmann is outstanding.
She’ll be back.
Candidates for President all possess these skills to varying degrees and they do usually impact the direction and success of the campaigns of each. Sarah Palin for her part appears to me to have excellent people and prioritization skills, and has a greater vision than most; but she lacks substantive knowledge and communicates in a formulaic manner that does not pause to consider her audience. An important part of effective leadership is understanding what you do not yet know, but need to know, and then rapidly attaining such knowledge.
Barack Obama is an anomaly. He lacks most identifiable leadership skills except for one: a superficially appealing style of communication, in which he employs repetitive vocal cadences and musical tonality in the expression of high-sounding platitudes not recited from memory or internalized understanding, but read from a TelePrompter. Which makes him a fraud, and given his associations - a dangerous fraud.
“An” English critic. So no, it isn’t...
Wish she’d give it to me. That’s an ideal place to escape to.
I agree. Well said.
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