It is if you ask Michelle Bachmann. Drought? Obama's fault. Hurricane? Obama's fault. Lack of consumer demand? Obama's fault. The fact that the Federal Reserve even exists? Obama's fault. Lack of jobs in Michelle's district? Obama's fault,...

(even though she hasn't so much as proposed, let alone passed a bill to help provide jobs at home nor done anything to protect her constituents from mortgage foreclosures, and has steadfastly resisted every attempt Obama has made to do so, while attacking him for making those attempts in the first place).

Of course Ms. Bachmann's only aim for being in politics seems to be to keep herself in the media spotlight while she remains completely oblivious to the needs and concerns of those who elected her.

Thank heavens that Ms. Bachmann was rejected, even by the Republicans as a candidate for president, because it seems her ideas about what the President of the United States can accomplish, especially in foreign countries, especially with the most obstructionist House of Representatives in US history, has no connection with reality.

But then, again, I also suspect she would have been happier if the US had sent in troops to prop up Khadafi so that the world could be kept safe from that evil of all evils: the Muslim Brotherhood (despite the fact that that would have meant that "freedom" and "democracy" would not have arrived in Libya for a few decades, yet, and taking such action would have exponentially increased hatred of America in the Arab world ).

And, by all means, we simply MUST ignore that the video that seems to have quite predictably and purposefully provoked this entire situation was produced and distributed by people claiming the label of "Christian" for themselves.

Of course the violence in the Arab world against the embassies and consulates of Western Christian nations is no more acceptable now than it was when it was perpetrated by "Christian" Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City a few years back.

In the same way we expect that others will be able to separate those of us Christians who would oppose this video's attempt to denigrate and offend the religion of other people and nations from the tiny number of people who are responsible for the video,

So it would be helpful for Ms. Bachmann and other "conservatives" to remember that the population of Islamic people in the Arab world runs into the hundreds of millions and those responsible for the current violence are a tiny minority.

That's an interesting – bizarre, hilarious, but interesting, nonetheless – mental image, Rolf. I suspect there'd be much less conflict in the world if the political leaders fomenting its various forms were required to be among the combatants on the front line until the conflict was resolved, one way or the other.

"Horse puckey!"

your favorite demagogue, blaming whatever nasty things happen in the world on the President's weakness in the face of tyranny, works for a lot of voters. This was the message William C. Bullitt delivered to readers of Life magazine in the 1940's, how FDR in his infirmity and weakness had sold out eastern Europe and China to Stalin in Yalta and Tehran. Now it's Libya and Egypt and Syria or is it Tikbuktu? Anything to keep the little minds amused. The clowns change, the circus goes on.

"More broadly, Bachmann said the protests weren't just about the film. "This was an intentional act that was done by radical Islamist s who seek to impose their set of beliefs on the rest of the world, and we will not stand for it," she said."

And, Rep Bachmann along with her Right Wing Christian cohorts are trying to do the same thing with their fundamentalist christian teachings! Examples; marriage amendment, right to choice, right to birth control. There those Republicans go again creating a "Bureaucracy" to intrude their Taliban Christian ideals "Shariah law with a christian twist" into our lives, as seen playing out today in the marriage & voting amendment. They consider their right to "Freedom of Religion", as much more important than our right to "Freedom From Religion" !
What makes that twisted idealism any different than the radical Islamist s other than the spelling?

The US is in the middle of military operations trying to secure embassies and protect American diplomats. On the home front we have politicians in an election year criticizing the president while his trying to save American lives and putting US Marines into harms way. At least wait until the Americans killed at the Libyan embassy are buried before the election year rhetoric starts on foreign policy.

The movie itself died quite some time back, it was so terrible, so poorly made. I understand it isn't even on the Internet. So when was the trailer reposted? It can't be for a re-release of the film. It is becoming more and more obvious that it was a radical Christian action meant to get just exactly the response it seems to be getting. The question I have is the timing of the posting of the trailer.

The whole thing stinks like last week's fish guts.

If this was a machination of hard right conservative Christians all along specifically to stir up international problems specifically at this point in time, then Bachmann needs to shut her pie hole.

all these beta male liberal democrats who never served questioning others' military service.

Bush flew training planes and was AWOL, per his commanding officer. He got after the fact"exemptions" to defend Alabama against Democrats. Did you do the same? I don't call that "service" nor do I call Willard's time in France as military service, nor do I call going to grad school with a gift of $377,000 in American Motors stock to "nibble away" at suffering at all. And the money I am putting in the plate on Sunday does not excuse me from paying taxes nor is it an equivalent, as Willard claims. What a joke your claims are.

I can tell you there is a lot of difference between leadership that was "battle tested" vs. non combat.
Believe me we would rather follow the first set.

By making "Islamic radicals" the boogeyman central to her campaign, coupled with her stature as an elected official it is possible that it is Michelle Bachmann's policies that are causing the unrest. These people know that if they commit acts of violence they will get a response from Representative Bachmann and her colleagues. That attention is what they crave. Rep Bachmann and "Islamic Radicals" are two symbiotic organisms pushing us toward endless war.