She certainly has her merits and good points. But i think she serves us better as a member of Congress than she would in the Oval Office, simply because she can build influence and sway votes.
She claimed to be against the Iraq war from the start, while also cheerfully volunteering to go fight it twice. I'd say I'm about 90% confident she knows better now, but as Beebo said, she has given us reason to have a shadow of doubt.
Tulsi Gabbard reveals she met Assad in Syria, without informing top Democrats
Not excusing her actions at all, but I read that, and the first thing that popped in my mind was that Republicans are condemning her for that, and yet had no issue whatsoever with Trump's oh-so-cozy meetings with Kin Jong Un? Talk about hypocritical!
I am okay with her meeting Assad. Just meeting him does not mean that she is a supporter of his policies. She has referred to him as a brutal dictator. Her interest is peace and ending these seemingly interminable wars that continue to cost us trillions of dollars, and reducing the suffering of the people. But let's remember: a large chunk of the rebels trying to take Assad down are ISIS fighters. We came in on multiple sides of this war. The enemy of my enemy is my friend logic utterly fails here, and arming seemingly less-objectionable ISIS rebels is just as bad as killing them, as it helps Assad, using that logic. We Americans are amazingly ignorant of the contours of that conflict and we have no business being there. Another regime change in Syria will do what? Give ISIS an opening, most likely. One of those rebel groups may take power and then what? They turn and bite the hand that fed them weapons. Ridiculous! We need to be out of there, we have no business being there. We have to find a way to get out with as little harm as possible to the Kurds, but that is not an excuse to stay forever.
Did she say she wanting to fight in Iraq or that she wanted to serve in the military? No idea here, but wanting to serve your country says nothing about your beliefs about a given war.
Track down some vids from the Bernie and HRC campaigns for some real tear jerkers.
Can't say I'm impressed by the notion of any more tax cuts except at the bottom end, but I suppose it'll sell well. I'd just like to see some real change in areas like renting - as long as there's a profit motive behind people having somewhere to live (not exactly a discretionary expense), rents will always be as high as possible. At least rent control can help somewhat with that, providing loopholes like driving people out with prolonged "repair" work (a Trump family favorite) are curbed.
Let's not also forget that she failed to prosecute Steve Mnuchin in the foreclosure crisis, and has even accepted a donation from him. We still don't have a good answer as to why that is so.
