Rachel just told Tulsi Gabbard

[72DejaVu]

that her endorsement "gave an enormous boost" to the Sanders campaign.


I'm not sure about that, but it sure gave an enormous boost to the amount of face time Tulsi gets on TV.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. Attacking combat vets.

Classy.

[72DejaVu]

4. Does that give her a life time pass on anything she does?

[ForgoTheConsequence]

6. She served in wars.

Hillary sent kids to die in wars. Attacking veterans and current Army Reserve members is disgraceful.

[radical noodle]

10. Hmmm

I thought this was the Hillary group..

[Stuckinthebush]

11. What was the veteran based attack?

Oh....that's right. There was none.

[LannyDeVaney]

12. You have an awful low threshold for an "attack" ...

A political commentary isn't attacking a veteran.

An attack would be closer to what Sanders supporters did to Civil Rights hero John Lewis after he endorsed Clinton. THAT was disgraceful.

[BlueStateLib]

15. Only one person voted no to war and that was Rep Barbara Lee

[ismnotwasm]

16. Here have a gif

It's soothing

[Cha]

18. It doesn't matter if she served in wars or not.. Gabbard has a very divisive reputation here.

KulaHula ??@DeborahCrombach
@Karoli @kalena141 I'm a Hawai'i resident. Gabbard has a very divisive reputation here. Very opportunistic with a hx of bad decisions
6:30 PM - 1 Mar 2016
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http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/01/you-built-this-gop/#comments

Besides she didn't help sanders.. he lost Super Tuesday and he lost Massachusetts most of all.

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. So that makes her immune to future criticism? I don't think she's as delicate as you make out.

She seems to be a very competent attack dog for the BS campaign. She can hold her own.

[jsmirman]

23. This post is so very strange

once again, I am absolutely flabbergasted by the thought process required to arrive at certain conclusions.

[jsmirman]

25. And to spell it out, the carte blanche you seem to indicate is conferred to anyone military

is truly chilling.

Guess the folks at Malheur with military backgrounds were a-ok.

[Cha]

20. Ohh poor Tulsi.. she attacks everyone else but no one can say a word about her reputation in

Hawaii.. clue.. it's not very good.

KulaHula ??@DeborahCrombach
@Karoli @kalena141 I'm a Hawai'i resident. Gabbard has a very divisive reputation here. Very opportunistic with a hx of bad decisions
6:30 PM - 1 Mar 2016
6 6 Retweets 5 5 likes

http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/01/you-built-this-gop/#comments

[LisaM]

29. She has some strange baggage.

We'll see how far this goes.

[metroins]

2. Tulsi is no Democrat

All I hear is her bashing real Democrats.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. Yep

Good for her for speaking her mind and standing by her candidate. She won't have a long political career, however. But, that's not necessarily a bad thing I guess. Politics is brutal business.

[DURHAM D]

5. Right

Noun. Verb. Regime change wars.

Repeat 12 - 13 times Noun. Verb. Regime change wars.



All over America Fred looks over at Susie and says "What the hell is she talking about?"

[ForgoTheConsequence]

7. Iraq, Libya, Honduras, etc.

Feel free to actually debate the facts instead of attacking a combat veteran who put her life on the line for this country.

[DURHAM D]

8. You are in the Hillary Clinton group.

jftr - I know exactly what she was talking about but most of America has no clue.

ETA: I have a number of close relatives in the military and they can only do military-think and it is very limiting.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

9. I'm well aware of what group i'm in.

I haven't attacked Clinton in the least. What I have done is defended an Iraq war veteran and fellow Democrat from unheralded attacks.

[Stuckinthebush]

13. Oh FFS

You sound like a Republican

Defending an Iraq war veteran. The post had nothing to do with her Service. Jesus. So weak

[Cha]

22. Correction.. you're well aware of what group you were in. You're a disruptor.. you won't be

coming back.

[BlueCaliDem]

36. THANK YOU, Cha. Those Repubs-disguised-as-Dems are really annoying.

I'm happy to read you're on top of things!

Mahalo!

[Cha]

41. We try, BlueCali.. constant state of issuing

the Block.

[Cha]

42. We try, BlueCali.. constant state of issuing

the Block.

[jsmirman]

26. Unheralded?

what kind of clown speak is this?

[charlyvi]

30. That's what I thought.

Uncalled for, unjustified maybe but unheralded doesn't really fit what he's trying to say. It means not acknowledged or acclaimed, or not announced. Weird.

[Cha]

21. Edit: John McCain is a combat veteran too.. so your hypothesis doesn't hold anything.

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[jsmirman]

31. I actually don't think he's a combat veteran although he did serve

only non-combat duty, I think.

[Cha]

32. Okay.. I should have checked that out Before.. Switching it to John McCain. Thank you!

[jsmirman]

33. It's still an absurd way of looking at the world no matter what example we use

respect to her for serving, but that surely doesn't make her infallible.

[Cha]

34. that's right. their attitude is .. you can't question anyone who supports BS but you can insult

anyone who doesn't.

[ismnotwasm]

14. Isn't she the one who votes with Republicans 65% of the time?

Or was that just a meme I saw somewhere?

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. Never even knew who she was until recently. At least she has heightened her profile. Best of.....

luck to her.

[Lucinda]

24. I think you've hit the reason she left the DNC and endorsed.

[Tarheel_Dem]

27. I figured there had to be a reason. I wouldn't dare go after her the way the BS'ers have gone....

after Hillary supporters. Al Franken, John Lewis, Jim Clyburn & others have been treated deplorably. I just wish all the best to BS, his supporters & surrogates.

[Lucinda]

28. Me too.

[BlueCaliDem]

37. I believe both Tarheel Dem and you are correct.

And it couldn't happen to a more deserving DINO.

[Her Sister]

35. http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/curious-islamophobic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabba

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/curious-islamophobic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabbard

"But the case of Tulsi Gabbard becomes less curious and more expected once you look at her links to a different set of ethnic and religious hardliners: the Hindu nationalist Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Since her election to Congress, Gabbard has tied herself closely to this party, which has a history of condoning hatred and violence against India's Muslim minority. Many of her stateside donors and supporters are also big supporters of this movement, which disdains secularism and promotes religious sectarianism."

[BlueCaliDem]

38. Bernie sure does surround himself with the most curious Dems, doesn't he?

OR...it could all just be a collective hatred against a TRUE-BLUE Democrat, Hillary Clinton. Strange that President Obama doesn't share in their strong dislike for Hillary Clinton - and he knows her best.

I'll trust President Obama's judgment of Hillary Clinton's character than some tiny U.S. Rep who ran as a Democrat but who votes and supports policies like a Republican.

[Her Sister]

39. She is also an Obama critic

Fox tv loves her b/c of it

[BlueCaliDem]

40. If ever Bernie should call to primary someone, Gabbard is it.

But, of course, he's happy with her endorsement. After all, isn't it his goal to destroy the Democratic Party from the inside out?

I hope that when Hillary sends his behind back to the Senate, he loses all support from Dems and all his posh chair positions as well. He wants to be independent? Let him be the island he believes himself to be.