The crowd in the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa, Byron York not appreciate Michele Bachmann asking about this part of a profile of recent Washington Post on Thursday night:
"He's their godly husband," said Peter Bachmann, the elder brother of Dr. Bachmann, who lives on the family dairy farm across the eastern border of Wisconsin. "The husband is the head of the woman, according to God." It is a philosophy that Michele Bachmann echoed the congregants of the Living Word Christian Center in 2006, when he said that she continued her studies in tax law only because her husband had told her. "The Lord says. Be submissive, wives should you be submissive to your husbands," he said.
When asked if New York was subdued, the crowd booed and whistled, loudly.
Bachmann hit on the side. "I respect my husband, he is a wonderful man of God, and we respect each other. "
As I said at the time of profile Post, "Bachmann is really comfortable to be in control of herself. She manages the House of Representatives" small club "very well. When he wanted to issue a response to the State of the Union to steal away from the official response from his party, nor asked for permission or forgiveness. If Bachmann has been spending his career doing bidding of her husband rather than her own, which is not very clear. "I'm genuinely surprised even this came as a question.
