I disagree, children for the most part should be off limits (unless it's to show poor parenting like in Gore's case), but spouses, parents, siblings and cousins should not. What if Michelle Obama was a member of the New Black Panthers. I would like to know that. What if Obama's mama was a Marxist Revolutionary (which she probably was). I think that is newsworthy.
In this case, Bachmann's husband's clinic is using caveman tactics to solve a "problem!" That is newsworthy and it should have been outed. ....
I agree, it is newsworthy, just as Michelle Obama's infamous statement during the last election (since settled, IMO). Although, this wasn't a public statement. It is good to know that her husband's business is based, at least partly, in charlatan practices, I suppose. Maybe for the tabloid flavor of it.
.... I hope this sinks her. She is becoming scarer and scarer the more she campaigns!
I don't hope something about her husband sinks her just as I don't hope something about any candidate's spouse sinks that candidate. They are the candidate, not their spouses, and the candidate's views and practices should be the main consideration on which a voter will make a decision for or against that candidate. Just IMO.
A solid point. How much bandwidth was wasted on Michelle Obama's "proud to be an American for the first time" quote (which I think was a silly gaffe)?
Spouses are fair game and always have been. Lord, how many Hillary Clinton jokes was I subjected too when she was first lady?
For Bachman's presidential aspirations, I think the larger issue is her rather antiquated notion that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice (which most of the country doesn't agree with). Eventually, she is going to have to give definitive answers to that question.
For her husband, I simply find it more troubling that he could bill as a healthcare professional for therapy that is viewed as quackery by the professionals (psychologists and psychiatrists).
Then again, naturopaths and homeopaths get away with the same type of quackery too.
Though there is a fundamental difference: Medicaid won't reimburse naturopaths and homeopaths (or even chiropractors - which I find absurd). Mr. Bachman has found a way to bill the government for "treating" people with methods that are viewed as laughable by the professionals in the field.
That bothers me a great deal. The government shouldn't reimburse a "Homeopathic Doctor" to treat cancer with Sodium Bicarbonate (they don't) and they shouldn't reimburse Bachman for his unique brand of snake oil salesmanship either.
I find it ironic that my fellow gay advocates are also calling the guy gay as if it were an insult.
