It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
`By thy long beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me ?
Like the Ancient Mariner many of us have an incredible, bizarre, barely believable story to tell a curious world about Michele Bachmann... will they believe us?
Former Strib reporter Eric Black in MinnPost:
I've seen this movie before. I've had a bit part in this movie before. Michele Bachmann should either:
• take responsibility for what she said about Barack Obama's anti-Americanness, retract it, say she didn't mean it, and she blew it, and apologize, or
• she should defend it and explain why, from her point of view, Obama's Americanness (or anti-such) is open to question. I'll suggest a script below.
I wouldn't hurry to count her out politically, but if the past is any indication, by the time Bachmann takes either course, if ever, she will have dug her hole much deeper. I speak with some authority because I was in the middle of it the last time Rep. Bachmann put her foot into a pile of poo. In case you want to see how close Bachmann comes to repeating the pattern from that incident, allow me to take you through it.
It was February of 2007, when I was still with the Strib and blogging at The Big Question.
Statements on Iraq
A Bachmann critic urged me to listen to the audio of an interview that Bachmann had given to the St. Cloud Times (it was posted online). Towards the end, in describing why it was so important for America to win in Iraq, Bachmann made the fairly astonishing claim that Iran and Al Qaida had a deal to divide Iraq in two, with the Al Qaida-controlled portion to be used as a base for terrorism against Israel and others....
Read the rest of Eric Black's epic saga at MinnPost.
The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone : and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn :
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
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