{"id":181855,"date":"2016-02-28T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/28\/this-aint-just-about-bernie-sanders-or-hillary-clinton-its-also-about-debbie-wasserman-schultz\/"},"modified":"2016-02-28T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:07:00","slug":"this-aint-just-about-bernie-sanders-or-hillary-clinton-its-also-about-debbie-wasserman-schultz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/28\/this-aint-just-about-bernie-sanders-or-hillary-clinton-its-also-about-debbie-wasserman-schultz\/","title":{"rendered":"This Ain&#8217;t Just About Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.  It&#8217;s Also About Debbie Wasserman-Schultz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2UM8F4EuUbw\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>That&#8217;s gonna leave a mark<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who is generally considered someone to watch in the Democratic Party, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2016\/02\/28\/tulsi-gabbard-rising-democratic-star-endorses-bernie-sanders\/\">resigned from the Democratic National Committee to endorse Bernie Sanders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, resigned as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday in order to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for president.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The endorsement came a day after Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in South Carolina by a huge margin \u2014 she captured nearly 74 percent of the vote \u2014 in a signal of her support in the South right before several other Southern states vote in Tuesday\u2019s primaries.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ms. Gabbard explained her decision in a video on YouTube in which she said that, as a military veteran, she wanted the United States to avoid \u201cinterventionist wars of regime change.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAs a veteran of two Middle East deployments, I know first hand the cost of war,\u201d said Ms. Gabbard, one of the first female combat veterans to serve in Congress. \u201cI know how important it is that our commander-in-chief has the sound judgment required to know when to use America\u2019s military power and when not to use that power.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a harsh, and IMNSHO justified critique of Clinton&#8217;s blithely bellicose foreign policy, but I have to think that a lot of this is that she no longer wants to deal with Debbie Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n<p>Just to remind you, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/can-someone-primary-this-ninny.html\">Wasserman-Schultz banned Gabbard from the debate audience for calling for more debates<\/a>, so I am inclined to think that part of this is being driven by her no longer wanting to work with the hacktacular DWS.<\/p>\n<p>Based on various statements from the Beltway media, I get the sense that it is not only Representative Gabbard who is getting sick of Wasserman-Schultz.<\/p>\n<p>The DNC chair appears to be high handed, self absorbed, and threatened by competence around her, and that is a toxic mix in any organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s gonna leave a mark Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who is generally considered someone to watch in the Democratic Party, has resigned from the Democratic National Committee to endorse Bernie Sanders: Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, resigned as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday in order to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,975,1165,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-employment","category-endorsement","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}