(October 28, 2016 at 12:30 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: And no, it's not surprising that he's a Republican:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-sena...30072.html
Quote:Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk is under fire for a racially charged quip made against Democratic challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth after questioning her family’s military service.
During Thursday night’s debate, Duckworth, who was born in Thailand to a mother of Chinese descent and a white father from the United States, proudly cited the extensive record of military service on her father’s side of the family, stretching back to the dawn of the country.
Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and former assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs, argued that it’s important that senators understand the burden carried by military families when debating whether to send the nation’s men and women in uniform into harm’s way.
“My family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I’ve bled for this nation,” she said at the University of Illinois in Springfield. “But I still want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and I want to be there to say, ‘This is what it costs; this is what you’re asking us to do. And if that’s the case, I’ll go.’ Families like mine are the ones that bleed first.”
When it was Kirk’s turn to respond, the Republican uttered a single sentence that was intended to be a zinger but merely resulted in awkward silence: “I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.”
This is a guy who renounced his support for Donald Trump after Trump's comments about a judge of Mexican descent not being impartial during the Trump University lawsuit.
Wonder if he'll renounce support of his own candidacy just to be consistent.
