Michele Bachmann started her professional and political life when her some of her children were still quite young. She started a Christian charter school with her husband in 1993, when she still had a six-year-old, a three-year-old and one-year-old. She finished law school in 1988 (she started in 1976, and the eight years it took her was probably its conflict with her family obligations). She worked as a tax litigator from 1988-1993, when she resigned to to stay home and take care of her younger children, then raging in age from six to twelve (her oldest was eighteen by then). She entered local Minnesota politics in 2000, when her children's ages ranged from six to eighteen She was Minnesota's state senator from 2000-2006. She was first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, representing the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was re-elected in 2008, and again in 2011. She announced her candidacy for president in June 27, 2011. She exited the GOP race in January 2012, after placing last with only 5% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses. She has announced in May 2013 that she will not run for re-election in Congress in 2014. In an interview on June 2013, she said that she's not taking anything off the table for the 2016 presidential run. Her political fight at the moment is to repeal Obamacare, and to fight against the debt ceiling. On October 10, 2013, she filed procedures to impeach President Obama due to his refusal to negotiate Obamacare, which led to a two-week government shutdown. On Oct. 16, 2013 she voted against a bill that would raise the debt ceiling.
Her professional life took her away from her family, but she entered it at the bidding of her husband, and through God's calling:
In a campaign appearance at the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, Minn., on Oct. 15, 2006, Bachmann discussed the importance of God's calling at critical moments in her life. She told the audience how she met Marcus Bachmann, how she earned a law degree at Oral Roberts University, and how she returned to law school for a second degree, this one in tax law.As her husband advised her, her preparation in tax law is now bearing fruit.
"My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a postdoctorate degree in tax law,'" Bachmann told the audience. "Tax law? I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord said, 'Be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husband.' And so we moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and I went to William and Mary Law School there. ... Never had a tax course in my background, never had a desire for it, but by faith, I was going to be faithful to what I felt God was calling me to do through my husband."
Bachmann went on to say that God later called her to run for the state Senate in Minnesota and, still later, for the U.S. Congress. After the church posted a video of her appearance on its website, a left-wing blogger picked it up and spread it on anti-Bachmann sites. If Bachmann's opponents were hoping it would be the end of her campaign, they were wrong; Bachmann won the race in 2006 and has been re-elected twice since.
But Bachmann's statement -- in public, on stage, microphone in hand, in the context of a political campaign -- raised a legitimate question. What role does her husband play in her performance in public office? With that in mind, at the Fox News-Washington Examiner debate in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 11, I asked Bachmann whether, as president, she would be submissive to her husband.
The question prompted boos in the Republican-filled hall, and then cheers when Bachmann answered. "What submission means to us," she said, "if that's what your question is, it means respect." [Source: Townhall.com]
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