Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appears to be inching ever closer to a run for president -- and as she has now said in her latest public statements, her prayers on the subject have now yielded a calling from God himself.
In an interview with Iowa Public Television, broadcast on Friday:
Henderson: You recently referenced your Christian faith. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, when he announced he would not run, said that he just didn't feel called to do that. Have you had that sort of calling to run for president?
Bachmann: Well, every decision that I make I pray about as does my husband and I can tell you, yes, I've had that calling and that tugging on my heart that this is the right thing to do and because it's such a momentous decision, not only for myself, my husband and our 28 children, it is a momentous decision what ideas will I bring to bear? What are the resources that I have to marshal in terms of people, assets, the message and also the finances, the amount of time this will take, what this will mean for the nation. Am I the right person for the job? Every decision and every endeavor my husband and I have made we think it through, we're not rash people. We make a plan because we want to succeed, we don't want to fail and so we've been very deliberative in this process and that's why we're now coming to the culmination and next month, as I announced last night, I'll make that decision right here in Waterloo and the world will know.[Note: Bachmann has had five biological children, and a total of 23 foster children over a span of many years.]
Bachmann has previously said she was praying for an "inner assurance" about her 2012 decision. It should be pointed out that for Bachmann, this stuff about receiving a divine calling to run for office is no joke -- it has allegedly happened before.
The last time Bachmann sought a higher national office, in 2006, when she was a state senator running for an open U.S. House seat, she famously told a mega-church audience that she had communicated with God, receiving through fasting and prayer the command to run:
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- panichead commented on Bachmann’s Prayers Answered: ‘I’ve Had That Calling’ To Run For President 1 year ago
There is this cat that stays in my nieghborhood and he talks to God all the time. The bad news is, he wears mismatched shoes, wears the same "cornuts" T-shirt and smells of his own urine and feces. The good news is, I would vote for him before I would EVER vote for Bachman.
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