Apparently if you’re a sweet child who has two mommies, Michele Bachmann feels it necessary to make you feel like a piece of crap:

armoriendi:

This is how the mother of five and foster parent of 23 treats an adorable, honest eight-year-old. Family values, my ass.

One can only imagine how she treats Marcus.

Big h/t: @ProgressMoShuff, HuffPo

Update by Paddy-I too had a problem with this vid at first, but have no problem with Gotta posting it, the message is strong. And now, look at this-

Back to the story– I was standing in line with Elijah and his mom. His mom was going to say something to her, but she got nervous and told me she wanted to leave. We were about to step out of the line but Elijah cried out, “Nooo!” He grabbed onto her coat and pulled her back in the line, saying he wanted to talk to her.

When we got up to Michele, he got a little stage fright. His mom just didn’t want him to not say it because he was afraid, because she knew he would regret it if he didn’t. I used to do ballet as a child, and before performances, I’d want to no do it– my mom pushed me to perform. Afterwards, I’d run to her and tell her how happy I was. How is this any different? If we were shown a video of a child before a school play, or a recital, being pushed to perform and not give into stage fright, would we get the same reaction? My gut says no.

Not quite the way it looks. Good on Elijah.