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US Senator Tammy Duckworth May Have Torpedoed Her VIce Presidential Prospects
August 2, 2020 | Self

Posted on 08/02/2020 7:59:27 AM PDT by PBRCat

US Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) made another clumsy television appearance today. On "Fox News Sunday," Duckworth struggled to speak grammatical English and made several more bizarre statements.

Duckworth continues to insist that Russia is paying bounties to members of the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan despite the fact that numerous US intelligence agencies have dismissed the claims as being uncorroborated.

Duckworth also alleged that the Department of Homeland Security is kidnapping ("mostly peaceful") protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon where the US Court House is under attack. Duckworth doubled down on stupid by stating that universal background checks on gun purchases could have stemmed the violence in Portland. Not sure how restricting gun sales would have halted the use of Molotov cocktails.

Duckworth supported amnesty and a path towards citizenship for illegal aliens. No surprise.


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To: virgil

Dick Durbin and Rahm Emanuel launched her career, which took much more work to get on track since former US Representative Peter Roskam (R-IL-6th) upset the scheme to get Duckworth established in Congress by beating her in 2006. Durbin and Emanuel wanted her to be the next Max Cleland: a wounded military veteran who would be immune from criticism as an elected Democratic officeholder.

Duckworth was appointed to head the Illinois Veterans’ Affair Agency and, later, to the US Veterans’ Administration to build her credentials. Interestingly, she was faulted by vets for performing poorly in both sinecures.

She finally was elected to Congress in 2012 after the Illinois Democrats gerrymandered a district especially for her candidacy.


41 posted on 08/02/2020 8:47:41 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: shelterguy

More likely Frank Marshall Davis.


42 posted on 08/02/2020 8:48:46 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat
Why Biden would consider choosing a Veep from states viewed as reliably Democratic rather than battleground states seems quite odd.

If Stacey Abrams had fixed her teeth and dropped fifty pounds she would have had it in the bag - but Biden knows how shallow his base is regarding appearances. Harris and Rice can at least fake a little bit of glamour for the cameras, when necessary.

43 posted on 08/02/2020 8:49:12 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: jazminerose

well, her veep was far less crazy than HilLIARy herself

the thing is, with all the SorozNazi organized and funded vote fraud, it was a miracle anyone could pull out a victory against the Democrat Nazi Commie party

and we will have to be super watchful to try to minimize their vote fraud this time. Soroz knows this is his last chance to reimpose his leftist dictatorship on America, so he is pulling out all stops (like his Burgle, Loot, and Mayhem storm troop gangs in our streets)


44 posted on 08/02/2020 8:51:21 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Buttons12

You’ve got to be kidding me. That interview was a joke. Compare to how he treats the administration. It’s going to be Trump against everyone else just like 2016. They are going to try and help Joe and his cohorts through every interview.


45 posted on 08/02/2020 8:53:34 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: PBRCat

Which color is she?


46 posted on 08/02/2020 8:58:58 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: PBRCat

She repeated the lies every Democrat believes. Democrats will think she is the perfect candidate.


47 posted on 08/02/2020 9:25:32 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: PBRCat

And HE is the ONLY reason that she is a US citizen at birth, not NATURAL BORN, because Congress passed a statute called the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1953. Otherwise she wouldn’t have even been any type of US citizen unless she naturalized.

Article II, section one clause 5 was ratified in 1787. A statute passed in 1953 cannot alter the meaning or intent of a constitutional provision.

One day, when and if a true respect for the constitution ever returns, we can have this matter adjudicated by an Article III court.


49 posted on 08/02/2020 9:37:19 AM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In 1944, FDR, realizing that he was sick and probably would not live through a fourth term, replaced the ultra left wing VicePresident Henry Wallace with the more moderate candidate, Harry Truman. Now, 76 years later, the Democratic presumptive candidate Joe Biden cannot make that choice. All the potential Democratic Vice-Presidental candidates are “Henry Wallace’s”. Even if he were to choose a Republican? like Romney or Kasich, he would lose the support of the majority in his own party.


50 posted on 08/02/2020 9:38:10 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: PBRCat

It is no wonder that the Biden campaign is having trouble picking a woman of color to be his Vice President. They all having serious baggage that President Trump will capitalize on.


51 posted on 08/02/2020 9:39:19 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: PBRCat

She was born in Thailand to an American father and a Thai Chinese mother. What is her citizenship status?


52 posted on 08/02/2020 9:41:29 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Polyxene

Yes!

Priceless!


53 posted on 08/02/2020 9:54:06 AM PDT by karnage
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To: PBRCat

“Tammy Duckworth’s lackluster performance made another Vice Presidential hopeful, US Representative Karen Bass (D-37th-CA), a Castro apologist, look good by comparison. “

except on Saturday, video was released of the this kommie Democrat making glowing remarks about the cult of Scientology in a speech that she delivered way back in 2010. that probably nuked her chances ...


54 posted on 08/02/2020 10:22:15 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

“except on Saturday, video was released of the this kommie Democrat making glowing remarks about the cult of Scientology in a speech that she delivered way back in 2010. that probably nuked her chances ...”

She also praised Castro and his actions in Cuba at one time and is now walking those comments back.

There goes Florida again for the Democrats.


55 posted on 08/02/2020 10:31:36 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: PBRCat

The woman is a total whackjob and the only thing she had going for her was her ineligibility.

Obama wants another ineligible to lend credibility to his usurpation.


56 posted on 08/02/2020 10:33:35 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: shelterguy

Many freepers have convinced themselves that the founders meant to include as eligible to be President anyone who could tangentially claim US citizenship at birth such as Anwar al-Awlki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, or Winston Churchill whose mother was an American.

Ted Cruz is only eligible if they are.

And we know that Churchill was awarded “honorary” citizenship by Congress, so they must not have had such an expansive view of who was NATURALLY an American.

The only way one is naturally a citizen is if there is no alternative and no law or statue required.

The amount of opposition to upholding the Constitution on FR has been surprising to me.


57 posted on 08/02/2020 10:43:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PBRCat

Winston Churchill’s mother was an American and Congress bestowed “honory” citizenship on him, I guess they didn’t know he was a natural born citizen eligible to be President...../s


58 posted on 08/02/2020 10:47:06 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PBRCat

More likely Frank Marshall Davis.
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I agree, but his fraudulent jpg of a birth certificate says the Kenyan.


59 posted on 08/02/2020 10:51:07 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: faithhopecharity

she has to get the Veep nomination in the Crazy Commie party first, before she can (maybe) shift her mouth-gears and start taking sensibly for the general election

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Or, she’s actually a leftist POS.


60 posted on 08/02/2020 10:54:32 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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