I have a very hard time commenting on Michele Bachmann. It is like with Ann Coulter. I really can't talk about her either. I don't have anything nice to say about either of them. Bachmann is truly special.

From The Root:

GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has signed a conservative pledge called "The Marriage Vow -- A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family." It's not surprising that it's anti-abortion, anti-same sex marriage and anti-divorce. But one particular piece has everyone up in arms over the idea that she and other signatories think that black people were better off during slavery:

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President.

Do Bachmann and others who signed the pledge actually think we were better off without freedom and with all of the other emotional and physical horrors that accompanied being enslaved? We don't know, quite honestly doubt they care, and don't believe that's actually the point (and the very accuracy of the statement -- including whether living arrangements during slavery are what we'd consider "two-parent households" -- is a whole different conversation). (more...)

So, what is Michele Bachmann proposing? Is she saying that President Obama should "fix" the Black community simply because he is president or because he is Black? Is she stating that President Barack Obama should sign a presidential statement saying that many women should never get a divorce? Is she stating that President Barack Obama should impose his own will on the Black population because he is leading by example? He is a married man. He has stayed with his wife. Finally, I don't believe the statistic. I doubt there are any stats kept on whether mothers and fathers stayed together in slavery and whether they raised their children together in slavery. The statistics kept on slaves were meager at best. Slaves were treated as property. Slaveowners knew the number of slaves they had and probably knew the sex of their slaves but I'm positive they did not keep any data and did not make any effort to keep families together. As a matter fact, the separating of families was one of the great injustices imposed upon Blacks during slavery.

With her views, I think that Bachmann would have been perfect for the 1890's. She could have stood up against the women's movement. She could have run a great campaign against Grover Cleveland or William McKinley