@gjohnsit

The comparison of Gabbard with Kucinich is interesting, especially since Kucinich accompanied Gabbard on that 2017 visit to Syria.

Though he's no longer in Congress, former Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich still views himself as an emissary for peace.

That's why the longtime sponsor of legislation to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace visited Lebanon and Syria last week on a fact-finding tour that included meetings with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and its president, Michel Aoun, and Iraq's foreign minister.

"We were there to gather facts on where things stand now and how they see their situation," said Kucinich. "The one thing we weren't there to do was make policy."

Kucinich made the trip with current U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat, their spouses, and representatives of Cleveland's Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services, which paid for the visit.

Ex-Rep. Dennis Kucinich discusses his latest trip to Syria and meeting with President Bashar al-Assad

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The news media has taken part in a campaign to "delegitimize" 2020 Democratic hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), left-leaning journalist Michael Tracey said in an interview that aired Friday on Hill.TV's “Rising.”

"The campaign to otherize and delegitimize Tulsi Gabbard is itself really disturbing," Tracey said to Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on Wednesday.

"She's portrayed as a total crank, a weirdo, somebody who's been coddling dictators. She's been accused of being a member of a cult," he continued.

He compared the move to ones he says the media has made in the past to delegitimize other candidates.

"It really harkens back to how the media tried to otherize [former Republican presidential candidate] Ron Paul, [former Democratic candidate] Dennis Kucinich, other candidates in previous electoral cycles who were seen to be inconvenient or be too challenging of foreign policy consensus in particular," he said.

Gabbard has faced blowback for a 2017 secret visit with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been accused of human rights abuses against his own people in that country's ongoing civil war.

"This is what always happens when candidates forthrightly challenge foreign policy consensus. They are deemed to be out of their minds, and that's a really destructive and insidious dynamic," Tracey added.

@mimi
I guess I vent all my frustration about German issues at some far away American women who can't retaliate. Shame on me.

than the ladies of the 'view'.
GAbbard had the nerves to appear in their nothing-to-see-and-listen show.
"and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." that's all I can think of when I was lead to listen to them.

@coolepairc

Qatar's pipeline. Pursuing a pipeline deal with Iran sealed his fate, in my opinion. Anyone can be killing their own populace, stealing elections, it doesn't matter what, as long as it doesn't interfere with American interests. The moment it does, the DICTATOR MURDERER AAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!! regime change button is mashed.

@coolepairc

You win the internet today.

@Snode @Snode Everytime I see her name come up the first thought I have is “remind me again why we are supposed to care what she thinks about anything.” If only the duopoly and he media hadn’t sainted her daddy, I’m sure she’d be ignored.

Meggy (May I call you Meggy? no? OK, Meggy) at least I'm trying to make a difference instead of riding my dead fathers coat tails and carrying water for some right wing lunatic cult. Toodles!