ABikerSailor
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Rep. Michele Bachmann's camp was retreating Monday after the Republican presidential candidate's statement seemingly attributing Hurricane Irene and the Virginia earthquake to God came under scrutiny.
"Obviously she was saying it in jest," campaign spokesperson Alice Stewart told political website Talking Points Memo (TPM) in a statement.
The comment in question was made by Bachmann while the Minnesota congresswoman was campaigning in Sarasota, Fla., over the weekend.
Speaking to a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times Sunday, Bachmann said:
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending
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Now.............not for nothing but back in 2008, during the last RNC convention, hurricane Gustav delayed the GOP convention for a full day, and now it looks like it may happen again with hurricane Issac heading over to Tampa (with projections that it will be there on the first day of the convention).
Maybe it's not all politicians that God is sending warnings to, just the GOP.