@Big Al

I like her more and more. She's balanced not just doctrinaire.

https://caucus99percent.com/content/syria-tulsi-gabbard-progressives-and...

Here's an article posted by Jacobin about Gabbard.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/tulsi-gabbard-president-sanders-democ...

Some excerpts from my post.

"She was also a key co-sponsor of the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act last year which passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a stunning 418 to 2."

(Those sanctions are causing North Korean people to suffer as Tillerson just came out and admitted (actually rejoiced in), which is the intent of sanctions.)

"When asked if she had any advice for the president, she responded, “put yourself in Israel’s shoes. I think whether you’re — when you’re in any kind of situation like this where there’s a little bit of a standoff and personalities and egos are hurt, if you put yourself in their shoes and understand where he’s coming from, where the Israeli people are coming from and their deep concern about Iran’s continued development of a nuclear weapon and what they want to do with that.”

(That's a flat out lie "Iran's continued development of a nuclear weapon")

“Russia has violated the sovereignty and independence of the Ukrainian people, in direct contravention of its own treaty obligations and international law,” said Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an Army combat veteran and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I support the sanctions announced today, and I strongly urge the President to go further and consider a broader range of consequences. If Russia is allowed to continue its aggressive push for control in Ukraine, there will be long-term, serious, and costly security risks for the United States and Europe. Russia must face serious consequences for their actions; the U.S. must consider options that truly isolate Russia economically and diplomatically—not just sanction a handful of oligarchs—and send a message of unity and strength from the international community."

“We cannot stand by while Russia unilaterally degrades Ukraine’s territorial integrity. We must offer direct military assistance—defensive weapons, military supplies and training—to ensure Ukraine has adequate resources to respond to Russia’s aggressions and defend themselves. We cannot view Ukraine as an isolated incident. If we do not take seriously the threat of thinly veiled Russian aggression, and commit to aiding the people of Ukraine immediately, we will find ourselves in a more dangerous, expensive and disastrous situation in the future.”

Also based on lies. She's also fully supportive, some say an Islamophobe, on the fake war OF terror. And she's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. I'd like to see her explain. AND, she's a democratic party politician. I think she's a political opportunist.

Anyone that thinks Gabbard is some kind of antiwar, anti-imperialist needs to think again.

@wendy davis I didn't address that in my comment but of course knew about it. But perhaps even that isn't enough to dissuade some who seem ready to elect her president right now.

gjohnsit, it told you what my main chich is w/ her. i just checked, and you hadn't come back. it's about her close alliance with hindu nationalist narenda modi. i did a quick search for a capsule report, and came up with ‘The Curious Islamophobic Politics of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard’ zaid jilani, alternet, feb. 2015

some excerpts:
"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.

In May 2014, the BJP swept the Indian election, and the man it made prime minister was then-governor of the state of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. To say Modi is a controversial figure would be a considerable understatement. In 2002, huge riots broke out in his state, with primarily Hindu mobs attacking Muslim residents. Over 2,000 men, women, and children were killed, with many more injured; mass rape was also documented. Almost all of the victims were Muslim."

"Why did Gabbard work so hard to shield BJP abuses from congressional review? The answer lies in her base of supporters. The BJP draws on support from the large Indian expatriate community through an organization called the Overseas Friends of BJP. In August of last year, the group convened a large number of Indian American BJP supporters in Atlanta as part of an eight-city tour designed to prepare for Modi's first visit to the United States the following month.

Ironically, she spent much of her Atlanta speech condemning religious persecution—of Hindus and Iraqi Christians, not Muslims in India."

"Gabbard has one other curious alliance. Under Prime Minister Modi, India has sought increasingly close relations to Israel, shifting the country's historical support for the Palestinian cause. Perhaps Gabbard is a sort of consigliere for this alliance of Hindu nationalists and right-wing Zionists, as she is the only House Democrat backing a bill basically designed to benefit one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest political allies, Sheldon Adelson. The bill is part of a crackdown on online gambling that Adelson is promoting in order to destroy competition to his casino chain."

now in 2015 dubya was so blown away by modi's muslim persecutions, he'd refused him a visa. i can't say when it was that gabbard took modi on two different charm offensives across the US (the first may have been 2014 mentioned above), but it seemed to have borne fruit, as they say. youtube has videos. but now modi is one of the power oligarchs and was at davos touting his country's 1.5 billion people as ready consumers, and seeking investments, etc., and has been utterly ruining farming in india, according to colin todhunter. (scroll down at will)
https://twitter.com/Colin_Todhunter

he has also made sure never to have enacted the self-determination plebiscite that was promised to jammu and kashmir (the 'elephant in the room' between nuclear pakistan and nuclear india) years and years ago. talk about border tensions!

as it happeens,i'd just read some narrtives on the positions that arundhati roy has publicly taken against modi over time (kashmir, damming rivers to beat the band, anti-muslimism) etc., and she was accused of sedition for her blessed efforts. but by now, his self advertising and the geostrategic position of india has caused NATO to put india 'under its umbrella' until full membership can kick in one day. think bases, ports, who knows what military systems.

now most of you may consider yourselves americans first, but i'm by way of a global citizen in fervent favor of human rights for all, but especially the marginalized and oppressed. so pardon me when i say: 'fuck tulsi gabbard, fuck narenda (namaste) modi, and their ilk.

peace when you can, there is a better world possible,
wd

@SnappleBC That will make you both a sexist and a racist. According to Identity Politics, that is. Especially if you also want to primary Diane Feinstein. Then you really must hate women.

(Off topic, but on Daily Kos I once stated the only I'd vote for Diane Feinstein was if she ran against Harvey Weinstein.)

I'm a misogynist because I liked Tulsi Gabbard but wouldn't vote for Kamala Harris.

It's fascinating how the Democrat's identity politics goes right out the window when you have someone checking off multiple of the right boxes but is in the wrong camp economically.