Tulsi Gabbard mocked President Obama and John Kerry after they linked extremism to poverty

[Cali_Democrat]

Here's an interesting article:

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“Meet the Democrat Who’s Not Afraid to Criticize President Obama on ISIS,” intones a recent ABC News headline. The story describes remarks by Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D), who has for the past month been all over the media slamming Obama's refusal to directly associate ISIS and other terrorists with the Islamic faith.

She's particularly a favorite of right-wing media. Appearing with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week, she lashed out at the White House for holding an extremism summit with Muslim Americans, saying it's a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is on that Islamic extremist threat.” She criticized Obama for saying that “poverty, lack of access to jobs, lack of access to education” is contributing to radicalization. “They are not fueled by materialistic motivation, it's actually a theological, this radical Islamic ideology,” she said, throwing red meat to Fox viewers.

To the media, Gabbard is a curious spectacle. She's a Hawaii Democrat, coming from one of the nation's most progressive and dovish chapters of the Democratic Party, but she's also an Iraq war veteran, and she's consistently tried to outflank President Obama and the rest of her party to the right on foreign affairs. Last month she openly mocked Secretary of State John Kerry during an appearance on CNN, saying that he thinks that, "if we give them Islamic extremists $10,000 and give them a nice place to live that somehow they're not going to be engaged in this fighting."To Gabbard, the idea that Syria and Iraq have been through years of brutal civil war, wrecked economies, and massive displacement is irrelevant; the only reason they have an extremism problem is because of Islamic theology.

Read more:

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

[LexVegas]

1. WTF? nt

[Mike Nelson]

2. Hmmm...

...well I respectfully disagree with her mocking President Obama.

[virtualobserver]

3. Tulsi Gabbard is right

Isis recruits with a carrot of a ticket to heaven on one hand, and the stick of "we will kill your family"

People will happily accept the house and cash, but Isis will still have their hearts and minds.

[msongs]

4. she is right...far right nt

[NWCorona]

5. Was she ever a Republican?

[virtualobserver]

9. Right, so that explains why she was a vice-chair of the DNC

[Fallout4]

15. I thought the DNC was the enemy...

[virtualobserver]

18. the DNC is not the enemy....the dictatorial Debbie Wasserman Schultz is in the tank for Hillary

She proved it by refusing to add debates....then when Hillary needed debates suddenly she sanctioned them.

[Fallout4]

20. I thought Bernie supporters were anti-interventionalist...

Tulsi seems to be in favor of our doing that, but as soon as she endorses Bernie, she's one of the good ones. How does that work?

I guess that's the question I'd liked answered. And honestly.

[virtualobserver]

22. I can only speak for myself....but I am anti-regime change

The United States has been tampering with sovereign governments for decades and whenever we are successful in toppling governments, things always go horribly wrong.

Long before we turned Iraq and Libya into failed states, we backed coups overthrowing democratically elected leaders in Iran and Chile among others, installing dictators who were favorable to our needs.

Tulsi disagrees with our intervention in Syria because we are supporting Al Qaeda and Isis (Syrian Rebels) against the Syrian government. Syria is no danger to us, but Al Qaeda and Isis are our sworn enemies.

So you have Tulsi's position backward.....She is anti-interventionalist. Each failed state that we create is a new home for ISIS.

[JaneyVee]

6. UNACCEPTABLE!!! DOES NOT PASS PROGRESSIVE PURITY TEST!

[Fallout4]

16. She passed the test, she endorsed Bernie...

That's the only test that matters.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. There must be no room for Islamophobia in the Democratic Party.

Which makes her rating by "That's My Congress" as a weak liberal understandable.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI 2) Liberal Action Score: 38/100 Conservative Action Score: 11/100 Net Congressional Score: 26

[Nanjeanne]

8. Oooooh is she going under the bus to quote the Clintonistas? Guess she's not a "good" Democrat to

them.

[Jitter65]

10. I still don't see BS camp embracing her in view of this and her previous LBGT stances. nt

[Fallout4]

19. Do you see his supporters embracing it, because I sure did...

Numerous threads popped up about her prospects--she should be his choice for VP!

[Jitter65]

11. In these statements she almost sounds like a mini-Trump. nt

[Fast Walker 52]

12. she does have a mixed record, and has some disturbing history

but it seems like she has become more reasonable in the past year, when I've heard her on Maddow.

[Fallout4]

13. Yet some here would recommend her as VP...

I wonder what she did to make her suddenly acceptable?

[jfern]

14. No one said that Gabbard was a liberal

But you don't have to be a liberal to realize that Bernie is better than Hillary.

[flamingdem]

17. She doesn't look at the big picture

It sounds like military-think. Very strange that she can't consider multiple aspects contributing so such a complex phenomenon.

[ucrdem]

21. She'll go far on team B.

They love that stuff.