Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) says that if Hillary Clinton runs for office in 2016, people won’t respond well. She says, “effectively she would be Obama’s third and fourth term in office,” saying Clinton is “the godmother of Obamacare.”
She adds that most Americans just “aren’t ready” for a female president. She told syndicated columnist Cal Thomas in an interview last week, “I don’t think there is a pent-up desire,”
Bachmann had more to say about the future candidate. Obama was “new and different,” and “Clinton is an old-timer,” less likely to stimulate voters, she said. Plus, she’s a woman, who isn’t even black. Bachmann hinted to the reason why people voted for Obama, “I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt,” she said. “People don’t hold guilt for a woman.”
She continued by discussing the role Clinton had in the Benghazi attack. If a person reads the Senate Intelligence [Committee] report and the House Foreign Affairs [Committee] report released [last] week, it is damning for Hillary Clinton,” she said. Adirenne Elrod, communications director of Correct the Record, stated that Bachmann and The House Foreign Affairs Committee “only seek to further politicize the tragedy that occurred in Benghazi in 2012.”