David Pakman rips Michele Bachmann's deafening silence on fatal Waterloo gay bashing of Marcellus Andrews

Note: To read all AKSARBENT posts on the fatal beating of Marcellus Andrews, click on the "Labels" entry at the bottom of this post.


(Via Joe.My.God. See bloglist)

Michele Bachmann likes to talk about her prowess as a "job creator," but when someone asks her why she took tens of thousands of federal job training dollars and her clinic's patients got about $140,000 in state and federal funds for treatments which additionally funded its payroll, she doesn't have a thing to say.

When it suits her convenience, Bachmann paints a Norman Rockwell Americana  picture of Waterloo, Iowa (like when she announced her candidacy), but when a 19-year-old gets clubbed (or stomped) to death in her idyllic hometown  by thugs yelling homophobic epithets a few weeks later, she doesn't have a thing to say.

AKSARBENT thinks it sees a pattern...

Below: Michele Bachmann on Waterloo (skip to 3:45):

"How thankful I am for Waterloo. For this wonderful, decent, god-fearing community... This was such a fine community to be born in, to grow up in, to work in (Bachmann left Iowa at age 13), to be a part of. I'm just thrilled with pride when I think what Waterloo put into our family... This is what we need more of; we need more Waterloo...