2011-06-29 Michele Bachmann at Winthrop Univeristy - 01 of 06.avi
Channel: RushIsRightYesHeIs
Date: 2011-07-01

Michele Bachmann's 2011-06-29 Town Hall at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Total length is about 49 minutes.

Michele was about an hour late but was traveling from Columbia, SC during rush hour. There was a prayer and pledge of allegiance ("under GOD" was louder than the rest of the pledge) just before she was introduced.

There were no hecklers to be seen.

I forgot to lock the focus and did not bring a tripod in case they were not allowed. I apologize for the jiggle, especially when my arm started to go numb. The initial space limit was 350 people but overflow rooms held more than 1,000 people. The building is new with very good networking and space so the odds are good other candidates will come here because SC is one of the earliest primary states. I was about 10 rows from the front. When I arrived, there were around 150 people in line. Many were young. There were a number of black women, including one of the people who asked questions. Everyone had a name tag. (At one point Michele refers to a woman by name before the woman speaks her name.)

Michele also stumbled a little bit discussing the 14% fall in the value of the US dollar since Obama took office. She wanted to say the value of the dollar should stay constant. Most people use the dollar as a "unit" synonymously with the value of a dollar. Those are two different things. An old, moldy muffin is "bread" just as much as a new loaf of all-grain artisan bread. The values (use potential) of both are different.