I hate to be the bear of bad news, but Michele Bachmann is disqualifi
ed from running for President of the United States, for now.
In March 2009 Bachmann said the following in a radio interview:
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing, and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/03/23/36990/bachmann-armed-and-dangerous/Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states:
No person shall be a Senator or Representa
tive in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislatur
e, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constituti
on of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrecti
on or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability
.
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