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Knives are out: Hawaii Dem faces backlash for taking on Obama over Islamist extremism | Fox News
I usually consider it a good thing when extremely promising young Democrats are destroyed by their own party but considering how far left and out on a ledge the Democrat Party has gone recently, and how fanatically it works at destroying freedom of speech and thought, I can't help but feel distraught and fearful for my children's and grandchildren's futures after reading this.
I know pressure to tow the party line occurs in both parties but rarely over such serious national security issues and never over something so asinine as refusing to admit that the islamic state terrorists do what they do because they believe in a dangerously fanatical version of Islam.
She was Hawaii's golden girl after winning a seat in Congress with support from top liberal groups, but now that Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been critical of President Obama, her political reputation in the bluest of blue states is taking a hit.
That isn’t stopping the twice-deployed 33-year-old Army veteran from continuing to challenge the president, her home state's favorite son, over his refusal to identify terror groups like the Islamic State as driven by "radical Islam.”
I usually consider it a good thing when extremely promising young Democrats are destroyed by their own party but considering how far left and out on a ledge the Democrat Party has gone recently, and how fanatically it works at destroying freedom of speech and thought, I can't help but feel distraught and fearful for my children's and grandchildren's futures after reading this.
I know pressure to tow the party line occurs in both parties but rarely over such serious national security issues and never over something so asinine as refusing to admit that the islamic state terrorists do what they do because they believe in a dangerously fanatical version of Islam.