Michele Bachmann is now a Swiss citizen

[Indy Texas]

...the hell?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76072.html

Marcus Bachmann, the congresswoman’s husband since 1978, reportedly was eligible for Swiss citizenship due to his parents’ nationality — but only registered it with the Swiss government Feb. 15. Once the process was finalized on March 19, Michele automatically became a citizen as well, according to Honegger.

So the woman who once demanded an investigation of "anti-American" members of Congress and rails against the creeping socialist authoritarianism of Barack Obama has decided to become a citizen of not just any foreign country, but a tiny European one with universal health coverage and all sorts of other evils?

[Indy Texas]

Is it a double standard that Bachmann got called out for briefly being Swiss-American, while Rahm Emanuel has been in Congress, the Obama Administration and Mayor of Chicago while being an Israeli citizen and no one says a word about it?

[Indy Texas]

Is it a double standard that Bachmann got called out for briefly being Swiss-American, while Rahm Emanuel has been in Congress, the Obama Administration and Mayor of Chicago while being an Israeli citizen and no one says a word about it?

If Emanuel had chosen Israeli citizenship, like, in 2009, it would have been as bizarre as the Bachmann story and gotten the same attention. It was something he started his career with.

I guess the urban electorate of multicultural-minded Democrats that he has been elected by probably wouldn't make an issue out of someone with an additional nationality.

I don't have a problem with people holding dual citizenship with other countries, but I do think it's rather inappropriate to do so when holding a federal office.