"Bachmann compares herself to Thatcher" September 02, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS - Republican Representative Michele Bachmann compared herself yesterday to a female world leader with firm resolve - former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher - while trying to convince American veterans that she would make a strong commander in chief.
Bachmann offered a glimpse at her foreign policy views in a speech to the American Legion’s national convention in her home state of Minnesota. President Obama addressed the convention earlier in the week.
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She will never get my vote.
She harkened back to hard-willed efforts by former president Ronald Reagan to confront the Soviet Union and communism and pointed to the strong campaign Thatcher headed to regain control of the Falkland Islands.
“It took two very strong leaders on the world stage, one a woman and one a man, to reverse the course of their respective countries,’’ Bachmann said. “We should heed the lessons that they hold for those who seek to wreak havoc on peace and on democracy across the world today.’’
Much has changed since the days of Thatcher and Reagan. US troops are at war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and terror threats pose a different kind of challenge for leaders here and abroad....
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