Democratic National Committee vice-chair Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her post on Sunday to endorse Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.
“I think it’s most important for us, as we look at our choices as to who our next commander in chief will be, is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment,” Gabbard, a U.S. representative for Hawaii, said on MSNBC show “Meet the Press”.
I have to day that this is a really gutsy move on Gabbard's side as she is a real up and comer in the Democratic party, and I think she is really putting her reputation on the line with a move like this.
Especially since it appears the Democrats are getting ready to close ranks behind Hillary.
Personally I have always liked Rep. Gabbard and found her to be a no nonsense politician with strong ethics.
I guess that's why Sanders appeals to her.
Good for her. Everyone is free to endorse (and vote for) whomever they want. I'm a Clinton supporter and I'm glad all Democrats can express their preferences like this.
ReplyDeleteExcept as DNC vice-chair she knew she was unable to formally endorse anyone. Gabbard should have remained neutral or not accepted the position to begin with.
DeleteShe resigned.
DeleteYes she resigned. But she made a pledge to stay neutral when she accepted the position. is she a snake in the grass?
DeleteI used to like her but not anymore--but not over this. I don't like how she speaks about the President & ISIS.
DeleteIs she auditioning for a spot on Fox Entertainment or to replace Mika B on Morning Joe?
DeleteMika appears ready to replace Andrea Mitchell-Greenspan.
dowl
Maybe she took this to heart:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2016/02/28/the_case_against_hillary_clinton_this_is_the_disaster_democrats_must_avoid/
I am posting this anon because of blow back I am expecting.
She lost my vote when she said meh, 70 years of our troops in Libya wouldn't be any different than 70 years in Germany and Japan. She's a neocon tool of the war machine and a lapdog of Wall Street.
DeleteI think she is all about Gabbard, period.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Shame on Gabbard. As DNC vice chair she pledged to remain neutral.
Delete"Democrats are getting ready to close ranks behind Hillary"
ReplyDeleteWhatever. There has been no closing of ranks, this has been a force feed of Hillary from the get go.
Closing of ranks is a lie.
Bull. There are paid trolls around who want dissent in the Democratic ranks, because it's the only hope the GOP has. When I read comments from real Democrats, every one of us will vote for whichever candidate wins the primary.
DeleteSounds like you are making up your own definitions as to what a real democrat is 8:43.
DeleteMost Democrats will support whomever the party nominates this year. People who are quibbling and saying that they won't support one possible candidate or another are not really Democrats. We KNOW how important this election is - at every level.
DeleteBeaglemom
Liberals will support whichever candidate wins the nomination because they know if they don't they are handing the country over to Trump (or Cruz or Rubio).
DeleteLiberals talk about how Obama had/has a mandate because he was elected by the majority of the people. Whomever gets the majority of votes in the primary should get the same support.
Gabbard understands karma. Good choice, Congressmember. Follow your beliefs, not the threats from DWS to toe her in-the-bag for Clinton line.
ReplyDeleteberniebros for trump
DeleteIsn't it funny how if you don't agree with HRC's politics you're labeled a berniebro?
DeleteIsn't it funny the same people who don't like Hillary also think Obama has been a disappointment.
DeleteThat's what Sanders thinks. Somehow, he believes he would have done a better job in the face of the wall of GOP congresspeople who made it their sole purpose to not let Obama achieve a damn thing from day one.
DeleteTotal wasted effort on her part! Hillary Clinton will be our next POTUS!
ReplyDeleteIf it comes down to Hillary vs Trump, I'd put my money on Trump.
DeleteNot saying I want Trump, just talking about winning bets. Be careful what you wish for.
It's never a wasted effort to support and vote for your candidate and I say this as someone who will be voting for Clinton.
Delete8:03-Seriously? You haven't seen a Clinton/Trump debate yet. She will annihilate him. He's got nothing but a big mouth. She has intelligence, experience, knowledge, and will not engage in a pissing contest with him, unlike his fellow GOPers. So please proceed. President Clinton is coming!
Delete@ Anonymous8:03 AM I agree with you word for word. It's very possible that Donnie will be our next president. The rabid Right VOTES. There's a lot of people on the Left and Independents that just aren't enthusiastic about voting for Hillary. And that's a fact.
Delete8:41 spoken like a true Clinton blinders-on sycophant. You don't have any sense where much of the country is on these establishment next in line candidates. She has her solid voting block like yourself of course. Trump is not going to debate by any typical standards. I fully believe he has the capability to steamroll her. Your debate expectations are very naive.
DeleteYou have no idea what you're talking about, 8:59. Clinton has held up against a lot worse than Donald Trump.
Delete@ Anonymous8:59 AM DING! DING! DING! We have a winner. You're thinking with your brain and not with your emotions. What you say is VERY possible, whether people want to believe it or not. That's what's so fucking frightening about this election.
Delete@ 8:59 -- He will call her untrustworthy, out of touch with the 99%, claimed broke when Clintons left the WH, has been bought & paid for by Wall Street, a liar, a warmonger, an abused wife, in ill health, forced to move left politically because of Bernie, a documentedly horrible S of S, etc. etc.
DeleteThese (for starters) will stick to her unlike anything said of him -- so far -- we still have 8 months of shit from him. Perhaps his lies about his & dad's KKK connections might be the tipping point).
He will not fight fair and his supporters will love him even more, 'cause they don't like Hillary.
You don't know what the word "sycophant" means.
DeleteIf winning a debate elected Presidents, how did we end up with "read my lips"? as President? How did we get George W? Face it, majority of people prefer simple slogans to content. Hillary does not have this in the bag!
Deleteyes-man, bootlicker, brown-noser, toady, flatterer, doormat, suck-up...
Deletesycophant is perfect.
Do you think he will fight fair with Sanders? Don't you think Trump will talk about socialism and giving away free stuff and Sanders being a career politician who was virtually unemployed for years before seeking election?
DeleteHis supporters will eat it up because they are idiots. They will learn to hate Sanders just as much as they hate Clinton.
@ 10:30. And Bernie outpoints her by many points a head to head. Just whose money and power is running the DNC if its VP quits it?
DeleteA supporter, even an ardent one, does not equal a sycophant (or a toady, brown nose, bootlicker, etc). What does Hillary Clinton personally give me for supporting her in a public forum? Nothing because I'm anonymous and she doesn't know me.
DeleteAre you a Sanders sycophant because you ardently support him? Of course not because that's not what sycophant means.
Usage: Hillary's sycophants, especially her sycophants like sycophant 11:58, will endlessly and annoyingly sycophant the crap out of non-sycophants with their sycophant behavior.
DeleteI know it can be painful to learn something new. I won't take it personally that you're lashing out at me and that you've doubled down on your ignorance. But I bet you'll think twice before you use the word again outside of IM.
DeleteAnonymous12:18 PM
DeleteFrankly, Bernie sycophants are more annoying than Hillary sycophants. At least Hillary's aren't so holier-than-thou and militant.
Anyone who believes that Bernie Sanders will somehow be less vulnerable than Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump's vulgar taunts and insults is living in a fantasy world.
DeleteWhat are you Hillary SYCOPHANTS going to do when Hillary and Huma get indicted?
DeleteJesus Christ. This wasn't a Bernie is Better than Hillary argument. The POINT was, in all reality, we really might get a President Trump. Ask the good people of Alaska, if all of the stars and planets are aligned just right, an empty suit (read: head) CAN get elected to higher office. Whoever changed the debate to "My father is better than your father" is an idiot.
DeleteOT-http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/politics/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-10-year-streak-question/
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February 29, 2016 Navy SEAL Edward Byers received the Medal of Honor on Monday morning for his role in rescuing an American civilian being held hostage by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
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Dakota Meyer remembers WW2 2/29
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HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE
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TIME IS PRECIOUS. Dakota Meyer has an 'emergency' and a lot on his mind. His ex is a cruel one and keeping baby Sailor Grace from Dakota and his elderly widowed grandmother.
#NeverOutgunned 2/29
https://twitter.com/Dakota_Meyer/status/704291826644054017
Speak up! 2/28
https://twitter.com/Dakota_Meyer?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Dakota Meyer's emergency: Bristol, pictured with Sailor in a previous Instagram shot, claimed her children have 'positive relationships' with their fathers, days after her ex Levi Johnston revealed that the pair had reached an agreement on custody of their seven-year-old son Tripp
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3468684/Bristol-Palin-posts-picture-daughter-Sailor-just-days-ex-Dakota-Meyer-files-emergency-custody-motion-her.html
Poor little "Hello, Sailor" -- the immediate response my husband hand when I told him what Bristol had named her.
DeleteShe is my Representative. I voted for her. However there is an issue that she was raised in the local religious cult "Science of Identity" and is intensely linked to the nutcase leader Chris Butler. Google those or watch YouTube by Jolicoeur for the unsettling details. Currently involved in death of a recreational diver killed by reckless cult boat driver this year here in Kailua. No legal prosecution due to influence by Tulsi or her father state senator Mike Gabbard?
ReplyDeleteShe is an attractive woman, I'll give her that.
I don't think Trump can win a general election.
ReplyDeleteTrump's negatives with blacks, Hispanics, women, gays, and Asians are in the toilet. He's really despised by most millenials. Every Sanders supporter I know would rather have Hillary than Drumpf.
The dirty laundry of his past includes horribly nasty and demeaning interviews with Howard Stern, outright lies about David Duke and the KKK, and we haven't even seen his tax returns yet.
Drumpf hasn't been attacked yet like he will be if he wins the nomination.
As much as I don't like much of HIllary's history of hawkish votes she would be a much better President than a foul mouthed , idiotic, narcissistic, race baiting pig like DrumpF
For an interesting look at some of the atrociously disrespectful trash that DrumpF has said on camera, check out Buzzfeed's posts of the Stern show.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-said-a-lot-of-gross-things-about-women-on-howar#.wexpzdLdX
But she would not be a better President than Bernie Sanders. The idea that the Clinton supporters are insisting it's down to Clinton vs. Trump when less than 0.1% of the Democratic electorate has even voted is just another example of the force-feeding of Clinton to Democrats.
Delete9:08, is this your first election?
Delete9:08 has a mental disorder
DeleteAnonymous9:08 AM,
DeleteNobody's force feeding anyone. I can make up my own mind and don't need you to force feed me either Bernie or Clinton. But I will say this, I really like Bernie but some of his supporters are just nasty, when I try to defend Hillary against something unjust.
Trump was playing 'Cannibal' with Ping Pang Pong so why don't you google that?
DeleteFollow the link below to read about Sanders and Sierra Blanca.
ReplyDeleteHis strong ethics must have been on vacation when he ignored the fact that Vermont nuclear waste was going to be dumped near Sierra Blanca, a small Texas town made up of mostly of poor Latinos. And when a contingency of residents traveled to Vermont to protest, Sanders basically told them "tough shit," and dismissed them. (I wish Paul Wellstone was still alive)
When Brown Lives Did Not Matter to Bernie Sanders
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/2/17/when-brown-lives-did-not-matter-to-bernie
I think that Bernie Sanders' view of politics is far too narrow for him to succeed on a national stage. Over and over, he's shown himself to be too one-issue focused. There's a lot more to American life and problems than banking.
DeleteBeaglemom
I don't think he focuses too much on overall income equality while not addressing women and minority issues (which go beyond income equality). I know he's good on those issues, but he doesn't talk about them enough. It's not sufficient to say that redistributing wealth will take care of women and minority inequality because it's much more complicated.
DeleteShould be "I think he focuses."
DeleteIn my view, Trump will mop the floor with Clinton in a debate. She's already shown debating Sanders that she's not a fast on her feet thinker. He'll decimate her.
ReplyDeleteDo you actually believe the crap you just wrote?
Delete9:08, 9:09 I see a pattern of stupidity here
DeleteTrump might not even debate. He's already changed all of the rules. Why would he have to follow that one?
Delete1209 you go Criminal Minds! hahaha get em!
DeleteI'm not that impressed with Tulsi. Ever since she opted to go surfing with a Yahoo reporter instead of attending the Veterans conference, with other house and senate leaders, here in Hawaii. The impression I've always gotten is Tulsi is all about Tulsi.
ReplyDeleteI'll take her over warmongering, Wall-Street-loving, worker-screwing, ever-triangulating Hillary Clinton any day.
Deleteanon 9:30 - dont get me wrong, I'm all Bernie all the way. I'm just not as enamored of Tulsi the way a lot of people are.
DeleteMaligning Hillary Clinton like you're a Republican will not get Bernie Sanders elected. All you're doing is making enemies for him and getting bad press.
DeleteBut please proceed.
Tulsi Gabbard is like the Democratic Sarah Palin.
DeleteTwo thoughts
ReplyDeleteI've always voted, but never bothered with primaries. Until this year. I'm all over the primary and voting for Hillary. Why? Not because she's perfect, but because she's the most solid candidate out there. I'm that excited about Hillary as a candidate to adjust an insanely busy work schedule to go vote in the primary! I want to vote for her twice! (I love Bernie's vision, and respect those that are voting for him, I simply have greater confidence in Hillary.)
As for Trump, she will trounce him in debates. Not only does she actually know what she's talking about, but Trump has a single debate technique: bullying. He will not fair well bullying a woman. And I believe he will melt down if a woman has the audacity to argue with him.
I'd bet money he walks off the debate stage or cancels a debate at some point.
People have a history of not voting for the best debater. We would have had President Dukakis and President Kerry if that was the case.
Delete10:34 are you suggesting Americans will vote for the best racist?
DeleteTulsi has always been about herself. She doesn't play well with others. She's science skeptic, fearful of modern technology. She's from a cult on Maui, so don't wet your pants praising her.
DeleteThought for day? I know Dakota is the baby's father given how Bristol essentially left Joey before last new year. It is interesting how Joey's mom still likes B's pics and baby pics. I would say it's interesting that Bristol is still friends with all her and J's mutuals, but there's no reason she wouldn't be.
ReplyDeleteIt's just good there's no real drama with Dakota. Bristol is relieved her baby's father wants to be a parent. She was uncertain her pregnancy. And it's interesting his family still likes her posts.
Ok, done for awhile/forever and I feel we should all be done stalking and inventing drama. Be happy Bristol and Levi forgave each other so quickly and he's seen Tripp for years now. They're lucky is wasn't a nasty case. Levi is not blameless. Can't rewrite his past actions. or erase them.
Leave em alone. Dakota, like Levi, knows Bristol and family are good people. The latter share mutual friends.
Yes, the brawl was another great example of what 'good people' they are. All 'good people' ignore their sick children and let problems fester until the hope the military will cure them. When that fails, 'good people' go on ignoring as they watch the deterioration of a chronic life threatening addiction runs a muck. 'Good people' know that the law will always cover up and lie for them or else they will bully or threaten someone since they are such 'good people'.
Deletehttp://dailyentertainmentnews.com/scandals/jordan-loewe-track-palins-girlfriend/
Shut the fuck up.
DeleteI'll gladly second that.
DeleteAnd the baby is not beautiful.
Business Standard: URGENT.
Deletehttp://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/bristol-palin-s-ex-wishes-to-see-daughter-urgently-116022700170_1.html
It has finally happened. Transcript. Video.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/144803-transcript-of-leonardo-dicaprios-oscars-acceptance-speech-gets-political-about-climate-change-video
Alaska
http://alaskatrekker.com/2016/02/alaska-climate-change/
"I know one thing for sure ... Soon enough all the truth will come to light and when a father dose not see their child ...." Palin spokesperson STFU
DeleteThe good people with the beautiful baby. Courtesy of THE NEW GIRL.
http://www.anchoragepress.com/news/new-girl
giddy a$$holes,
Bristol writes that her pregnancy was planned…..
http://dlisted.com/2015/06/29/bristol-palin-got-knocked-up-on-purpose-so-says-bristol-palin/
stfu
DeleteThe Saddest Thing Ever
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bsmp2
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stfu
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Group lawsuit against Alicia's parents. All of us that have been stalked by Alicia on Facebook.
DeleteYeah, politics would be a great job for Bristol....I just LUVVVVS Bristol to pieces....oh wait, wrong thread. We're talking about Hillary, Bernie and Donald.
DeleteQuick quiz: What planet are you on?
DeleteZERO political experience. ZERO military experience. ZERO foreign policy experience. The number of presidents between #1 and #44 who took office with absolutely no elective, appointive, or military public experience is … ZERO. The number will still be zero when president #45 is sworn in. Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of the United States. Nor the 46th, nor any other number you might name.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't sound that awesome to me.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/curious-islamophobic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabbard
Yikes
DeleteWow, I wouldn't think Bernie would want her support.
DeleteIntelligent woman.
ReplyDeleteTry reading NC Anon11:27 AM's post above.
DeleteOh did Tulsi take the off from bashing President Obama?
ReplyDeleteI mean did Tulsi take the DAY off from bashing President Obama.
ReplyDeleteIt's dark in here.
Wish I could upvote you.
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