Posted on 09/01/2016 4:39:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) said Thursday that “you’ve got to respect” San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit down during the national anthem as a sign of protest of America’s treatment of minorities, adding he would do it differently if it were him.
At Thursday night’s game against the San Diego Chargers, which will feature a Salute to the Military event, Kaepernick is expected to sit again during the national anthem. Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos asked Kaine about it during the latter’s run of media appearances Thursday morning.
“You’re the father of a Marine. What’s your reaction to Colin Kaepernick?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“You know, you’ve got to respect people’s ability to act according to their conscience,” Kaine said. “I mean, I’d do it differently. I think if you really thought about issues and this country, you’d do it differently, and when I heard him explain his rationale, didn’t really make that much sense to me. But you’ve got to respect people’s ability to act according to their conscience, so I wouldn’t presume to tell him what to do.”(continued)
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I wonder how he would feel if CPs conscience told him to kick Kaine in his tiny balls
Kaine’s Jesuit skirt is showing. But even the Jesuits believe that a person needs to have an “informed” conscience. Kapernick is an ignoramus with an uniformed conscience. Has anybody seen a list of books read by Colon Kapernick?
Religious convictions are fine as long as it’s Islam.
OMG ... did he really say this? If this gets out a lot of folks might get real angry with the Rat ticket.
Dumb and dumber
Except when it comes to their Christian beliefs.
This guy kaine is an evil twit
Courting the cop hater constituency ...
Maybe Kaine needs to have his conscience jolted a bit:
Tim Kaine accepted $160K in gifts as governor
By/ Rebecca Shabad/ CBS News/ June 30, 2016, 12:25 PM
Sen. Tim Kaine legally accepted more than $162,000 in gifts when he served as lieutenant governor and governor of Virginia..
The disclosures have been publicly available for years, but they could be under some scrutiny now, since Kaine has been floated as a possible vice presidential pick for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Virginia Democrat disclosed the gifts from 2001 to 2009, according to reports filed by the Virginia Public Access Project, which Politico reported.
Most of the gifts were for travel to and from political conferences and events. Accepting gifts is legal under Virginia’s lax ethics rules, and Kaine’s aides pointed out there was no suggestion of official favors in return, and he has exceeded the reporting requirements.
“During his eight years as lieutenant governor and governor, Sen. Kaine went beyond the requirements of Virginia law, even publicly disclosing gifts of value beneath the reporting threshold,” a spokesperson told Politico. “He’s confident that he met both the letter and the spirit of Virginia’s ethical standards.”
The disclosures showed he received an $18,000 Caribbean vacation from Virginia-based tech investor James Murray, Jr., and in 2007 received $5,500 in clothing from Stuart Siegel of S&K Menswear, a company that declared bankruptcy in 2009. Teva Pharmaceuticals gave $12,000 for expenses incurred for the Democratic Governors Association meeting in Aspen in 2006. Obama for America had the largest disclosure—$45,075 for travel and lodging related to the 2008 presidential campaign.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was charged with corruption over $165,000 in gifts and loans while he was governor, although the conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court earlier this week. The original charges stemmed from the fact that these gifts and loans were from a single donor, Jonnie Williams, and McDonnell was accused of giving Williams favors in exchange for his largesse.
At least you don’t read crap like this about the Republican Governor and V.P. nominee Mike Pence...
‘Birds of a Feather flock together’ and boy Hillary and Kaine sure do make a perfect pair...
Accept his right? Yes. Respect him? NO
Mothers, don’t let your kids take up Marxism. It rots their brains.
“you’ve got to respect” San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision”
No I dont.
Disrespecting the people’s country is somehow respectful?
Well, Kaine is a democrat and we all know how much that HATE this country.
If he doesn’t like it here, he can move to Cuba and let him try to do that there.
You mean Hillary’s allowing Kaine to utter a few syllables?
(She gotta bust his balls, don’t ya know? Can’t have him
lousing up HER big chance.)
Exactly. Then it’s “Shut up and bake the cake, Christian”.
Good, it lets people see the difference between Clinton and Trump.
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