Michele Bachmann makes it official, well kind of

I am so glad that she has made it official that she is running. Now maybe the media will do its due diligence and peel back the layers. The media needs to go beyond the soundbites and challenge her thought process. So now that she is in it, I wonder how long before she says that the media is picking on her. If she can get past the soundbites and have an original thought, maybe I could take her seriously.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced Monday night that she has filed the necessary paperwork to run for the presidency in 2012.

After months of weighing a campaign and making frequent visits to the early-voting states, Bachmann said at the beginning of Monday’s presidential debate that she would launch a presidential bid. Bachmann said she would make a formal announcement shortly and she would be the first female president in the nation’s history if she were ultimately elected.

To coincide with the debate, the first in the GOP nominating contest, Bachmann released a video calling on supporters to volunteer, donate and tell their friends to join a “winning team.”

“This is the first day of taking our country back,” Bachmann said in the one-minute clip. “I’ve worked very hard to bring your voice to the halls of Congress. Now, I want to take your voice into the White House, where it hasn’t been heard for a very long time.”

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