Bachmann Wishes Elvis Happy Birthday on the Day He Died

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Rebecca Greenfield 634 Views Aug 16, 2011

Everything's going wrong for poor Michele Bachmann. To add to her list of mess-ups, she flubbed yet again Tuesday, wishing Elvis, whose song Promiseland she used at her event today, a Happy Birthday. Too bad today is the 34th anniversary of his death, as Politico reports. Watch the moment below. The John Wayne Gacy thing made us laugh, but it's hard not to feel sorry for Bachmann with this string of slip-ups--isn't her staff supposed to prevent this kind of stuff?

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