Travel and the Swine Flu

Travel and the Swine Flu
By this time most people are concerned about travel to various areas where there has been an outbreak of the swine flu, especially travel to Mexico. I just read an interesting post that connects the swine flu to the Democrats.
From www.huffingtonpost.com 4-28-09
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/28/michele-bachmann-links-sw_n_192493.html
Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, following Rush Limbaugh's cue, suggested on Tuesday that President Obama was to blame for the swine flu crisis. She went even farther than the talk show host, implying that swine flu epidemics are a Democratic phenomenon that dates back to President Carter:
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
Unfortunately, Bachmann's facts are a little off. As Glenn Thrush notes, Republican President Gerald Ford, not Carter, led the country during the last outbreak of the virus.
This whole erroneous coincidence is just so remarkable. It allowed me to draw another unusual coincidence: While airliners were crashing into the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001, Michele Bachmann was shopping at Macy’s. Do you see the connection? Michele Bachmann must have known about the impending attack and fled for the safety of a department store. And, for all we know, Macy’s was behind this horrible attack on our soil.