I need to make a correction. In one of my previous columns, “Michele Bachmann cannot solve America’s gas crisis,” I wrote that her promise to lower the price of gas to less than $2 per gallon was, “the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard from a candidate who actually has a chance at winning the nomination.”

Well, I spoke too soon.

Because, last Sunday before a crowd in Sarasota, Fla., Bachmann told a group of her supporters that Hurricane Irene was a message sent from God to the politicians in Washington telling them to listen to the American people, according to an article in the St. Petersburg Times.

I find this a little strange, because I thought Hurricane Irene was a message sent from God to Michele Bachmann telling her to stop saying stupid things.

I mean, really, how many ridiculous things is she going to say during this campaign? I don’t think I’ll need to come up with a new column idea this year; I’ll just make fun of her for the new dumb thing she says each week.

The day after making these comments, Bachmann decided that she no longer wanted to stand behind them and said she was just making a joke.

“Of course I was being humorous when I said that. It would be absurd to think it was anything else, ” Bachmann said. “I am a person who loves humor. I have a great sense of humor.”

It’s true, Bachmann is very funny. She also definitely has a great sense of humor. My favorite of her jokes is the one where she thinks that she would be a good president. That one gets me every time.

The part I don’t really understand is how saying this was a joke was supposed to make this situation better for her. I don’t think making jokes about tragic national disasters is really a quality that most people want in their president.

This is probably why she changed her mind again and now said this “joke” was really a metaphor.

“Obviously, I was speaking metaphorically,” she said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “That was clear to the audience. It was clear to me.”

If it was so clear to you, then why did you first tell everyone it was a joke?

This is getting ridiculous.

Bachmann needs to realize the American people aren’t nearly as stupid as she must think. She just can’t keep changing her story every time she wants to.

I don’t know how anyone can take her seriously as a candidate for president. She’s turning the never ending election cycle into more of a joke than it already was… and that’s not an easy accomplishment.