Blaming God's wrath for natural disasters has long been the stock-in-trade of an infamous cadre of angry, unscientific TV preachers led by Pat Robertson. Now, a presidential candidate has joined in on the medieval fun.
Speaking yesterday to a 1,000-person crowd gathered in Sarasota, Florida, Michele Bachmann, who is campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, said that God is punishing the United States with disasters because the nation is spending too much money. "I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," she said,according to the St. Petersburg Times. "We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
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