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Michele Bachmann Is Not a Doctor

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But there was one résumé item that was missing: a Ph.D. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Bachmann traveled the state as an education activist, she went by "Dr. Michele Bachmann," even though she had never obtained nor sought the advanced degree that's a prerequisite for the title.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/michele-bachmann-not-doctor-phd

Tsk tsk Mrs Bachmann... padding your CV with falsehoods ... tsk tsk.
 
You're being dishonest here. Although it's not customary for attorneys to refer to themselves as "doctors" (and I'm even suspicious of lawyers who use "J.D." after their names), the "D" does stand for "Doctor."
 
You're being dishonest here. Although it's not customary for attorneys to refer to themselves as "doctors" (and I'm even suspicious of lawyers who use "J.D." after their names), the "D" does stand for "Doctor."

I've never met a lawyer that calls himself Dr. Have you?
 
You're being dishonest here. Although it's not customary for attorneys to refer to themselves as "doctors" (and I'm even suspicious of lawyers who use "J.D." after their names), the "D" does stand for "Doctor."

Hardly... she has claimed to have a PHD, by calling herself Doctor.. she does not have a PHD... that is a fact.
 
Hardly... she has claimed to have a PHD, by calling herself Doctor.. she does not have a PHD... that is a fact.
You are on the bull**** railroad. She has an LLM in Law, which means she is MORE EDUCATED THAN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Thank you for playing.
 
You are on the bull**** railroad. She has an LLM in Law, which means she is MORE EDUCATED THAN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Thank you for playing.

And this means what exactly? Obama never lied about being a doctor, and that certainly doesn't mean she is smarter than Obama.
 
and that certainly doesn't mean she is smarter than Obama.

Pffft.

You don't know what you're talking about liberal swine!

Bachmann is so smart, she'll get gas to $2 a Barrel again! :lol:

See Obama beat that!
 
I read the article and didn't see where she *called* herself a doctor. Rather: other people called her a doctor.

But the update at the end of the article is humerous - they can't seem to decide whether she's one or not per her qualifications . .. 'jures doctor' vs 'doctor' :shrug:

Where's the fail pail?
 
Sure the ones that teach it if they have a PHD.

Ok fine. But of course she wasn't teaching. Are you incapable of calling a turd a turd?
 
You are on the bull**** railroad. She has an LLM in Law, which means she is MORE EDUCATED THAN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Thank you for playing.

Wow all caps and Hussien to boot? I'm betting you're also stomping your feet as well. How so very middle schoolish.
 
Bachman will be a moot issue very soon...Foxnews has "CHOSEN" Rick Perry as their candidate of choice

Dubya and his attack weasel Rove are none too happy about it either. Gotta love it, Republicans eating their own.
 
That wasn't him, it was a minion's minion...

No, it was the Minion Software

And Bachman is a J.D. She to be that to practice law. I have NEVER heard a simple J.D. call themselves a Doctor and I hereby grant the woman the title of Pa. D (Doctor of Pretentious Assholism,) formerly only held by "Doctor" Phil if she did so.
 
Wow all caps and Hussien to boot? I'm betting you're also stomping your feet as well. How so very middle schoolish.


Not to mention oversized text. It's strange to me that conservatives so often want to emphasize President Obama's middle name. It means handsome. Freud might have something to say about that, emphasizing the word handsome and making it appear in large letters...
 
Not to mention oversized text. It's strange to me that conservatives so often want to emphasize President Obama's middle name. It means handsome. Freud might have something to say about that, emphasizing the word handsome and making it appear in large letters...

Yes - I find this middle-name thing to be obnoxious beyond belief.

My Middle name is Anne . . . Anne is a common name when it comes to murderesses - apparently - we've laid a history of anne spired slayings left and right . . . oddly - no one freaks out over this.
 
I read the article and didn't see where she *called* herself a doctor. Rather: other people called her a doctor.

But the update at the end of the article is humerous - they can't seem to decide whether she's one or not per her qualifications . .. 'jures doctor' vs 'doctor' :shrug:

Where's the fail pail?

I don't think this even rises to the height of a molehill. It's not the convention to use "Doctor" as an title, but this isn't a falsehood. The "d" does stand for "Doctor." As I've said, I'm always suspicious when an attorney uses the alphabet letters at all; again, it's not the custom, and every last one I've ever met that did was a pretentious asshat.

The Mother Jones attack article is pretty lame, I think. Find something of substance to attack Bachmann on rather being sooooo petty!
 
I don't think this even rises to the height of a molehill. It's not the convention to use "Doctor" as an title, but this isn't a falsehood. The "d" does stand for "Doctor." As I've said, I'm always suspicious when an attorney uses the alphabet letters at all; again, it's not the custom, and every last one I've ever met that did was a pretentious asshat.

The Mother Jones attack article is pretty lame, I think. Find something of substance to attack Bachmann on rather being sooooo petty!

no need to attack bachmann.....perry has made her irrelevant.
 
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