A few months back, George Barna of The Barna Group, a Christian polling and research firm, sat down with Michele Bachmann to get her thoughts on the faith in politics.
During the interview, Barna said that politicians have a reputation of caring more about their own careers than representing the people and, given that, asked Bachmann why she served in public office ... to which she replied that she was different because politics was not her career and she was called to serve and she is just trying to be faithful:
I didn't go for public office to have it be a career. I went in order to represent the viewpoint of the people that are in my district and I've done that faithfully, I believe. And that's what the people in my district say and that's why I think they've returned me to public office because, again, I fight very hard fights on their behalf. And they see sometimes the abuse that I take in the media for standing up for their values. People appreciate the fact that I am fighting for them. They know that I don't do it because it's fun; I do it because there is something more at stake and I'm willing to do that.
After all, life is short - it's very brief, our time on this earth - and so I think we need to fulfill what we are called to do and that's what I'm trying to do: be faithful.
So, life is very short and politics is neither fun nor her career ... but Bachmann has to run for president because that is what she has been called to do and she is just trying to be faithful?
