cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8876223
Yeah, yeah, I get it. Honest I do. Enough’s enough. An unnecessarily exaggerated response. An incredibly complicated situation that just keeps getting knottier. But just like in comedy, timing is everything.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s call for people to vote against President Joe Biden in Michigan’s Feb. 27 Democratic primary reverberated across political circles and social media over the weekend, with nervous supporters of the president’s saying she was helping former President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts.
On Saturday, even as Trump was making his way to Michigan for a raucous rally in Waterford Township, Tlaib, D-Detroit, who represents southeast Michigan’s large Arab-American and Muslim community in Dearborn, released a video of her telling people to vote uncommitted as a signal to Biden of their continued demand that he call for Israel to stop a bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.
Several Democrats and others denounced Tlaib’s stance almost immediately. Norm Ornstein, a congressional expert and emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, proclaimed it “shameful” on X on Sunday.
And after a group, Republicans Against Trump, posted the remarks, asking, “Who’s going to primary her?” the civil rights lawyer Andrew Laufer said of her comments on X: “That’s an amazing stance @RashidaTlaib. Have your supporters not vote or vote for the guy who will deport them. Just an amazing position.”
And as for the Listen to Michigan campaign, Tlaib has literally close relations with its membership: Her sister, Layla Elabed, is its campaign manager. Several other local leaders with whom she is close, including Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and former U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township, also have signed onto the uncommitted campaign.
…also “signed on”, that bastion of hard-hitting journalism, The Metro Times.
Even a dog knows not to defecate where he sleeps.
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Biden should do what 75% of his base want, which is to stop arming Israel.
She is the child of Palestinian immigrants. Why on earth would she endorse Biden…
The joys of a two party system.
Forget about finding a candidate you want to vote for and learn to settle for the one you dislike the least.
Most people aren’t even going to vote in the primary. This seems like a pretty good way to send a message
They love to claim Martin Luther King Jr. as one of their own, but when Lyndon B. Johnson told him to wait until after the 1964 election to demand civil rights, MLK also told him to suck it. LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act in 1963 and lost the support of southern Democrats, but beat Goldwater in 1964.
Joe Biden knows what he has to do to get Rashida Tlaib and her supporters’ vote. Tlaib isn’t the one supporting Trump; it’s Netanyahu.
