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billky

(159 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 06:00 AM Aug 2012

Ask Mitch McConnell if his wife came here legally....

Wife, Elaine Chao, born in Taiwan. She came here when she was 8 years old. Did she come here legally? Deserves to be asked to Bitch McConnell. Just to give him a dose of his own medicine.
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liberal N proud

(60,346 posts)
2. They don't think it matters because what is good for the goose is not good for the gander when...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 06:40 AM
Aug 2012

the gander is them.

lostnote12

(159 posts)
3. McConnells father-in-law over-saw major shipping contracts between Communist China and
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 07:44 AM
Aug 2012

...Capitalist America.....when the Longshoremen went on strike over healthcare issues on the west coast McConnell used his influence to shut it down....at the time he sat on an obscure but important committee that oversaw maritime commerce......I'm certain that his father-in-law complained of having to ship Chinese goods to Mexico to be unloaded and then trucked back north....Mitch and Elaine are of the same ilk as Phil and Wendy Graham....

 

Barry2012

(51 posts)
5. Typical repugs
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 08:08 AM
Aug 2012

The repukes are the most evil , corrupted and vile political party in the world.I just cannot see the day when this party disappears from the face of the universe.

BlueMTexpat

(15,374 posts)
9. I did rec, but it is hardly because I am contemptuous of strangers or foreign peoples.
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 09:16 AM
Aug 2012

The way I have lived my life is an absolute repudiation of such charges.

I AM contemptuous of those who do discriminate against strangers and extremely contemptuous of hypocrites like McConnell. That is why I recommended this post.

I have no doubt whatsoever that McConnell's wife came to the US legally. I accord the same presumption of legality to any other person who is here, regardless of race, creed or origin.

While the post could perhaps have been framed more artfully, I do not see it as contempt towards McConnell's wife because of her origin. I rather see it as contempt towards McConnell himself because of his support of GOP positions on children who were brought to the US as minors, whatever the status of their parents, his unwillingness to cut those children any slack whatsoever and his total wishy-washyness (sp?) in re the birthers.

 

xtraxritical

(3,576 posts)
10. I agree, McConnell should be hammered any way possible, especially because he's so stupid looking.
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 09:24 AM
Aug 2012

Has anyone ever seen a more ridiculous looking man? No wonder he could not find an American wife. There, I said it go ahead and hide it.

marble falls

(57,333 posts)
14. Hamering McConnell by asking his wife questions you resent anybody else being asked ...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 11:50 PM
Aug 2012

is OK? "Papers, Please!" is OK as long as its being asked of GOP legislators' wives? I so disagree with that attitude.

 

billky

(159 posts)
11. If the president of the United States has to show...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 02:13 PM
Aug 2012
his birth certificate and be told all the time that he is foreign, then why the hell can't anybody else be asked? But yes, being wife of Bitch McConnell was the point.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
12. sure, if those immigrants make that a major part of their platform, then why not?
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 03:50 PM
Aug 2012

you do understand the concept of calling out people for their hypocrisy, don't you?

cabot

(724 posts)
13. Hell, I'd like to know if he had an affair with her which caused the break-up of his first marriage
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 04:10 PM
Aug 2012

Apparently, he divorced his wife, Sherrill Redmon in 1993. He married Elaine Chao that same year. But I guess infidelity only counts if you're a democrat.

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