IA's Rep. King Maligns Mixed-Race Military Families (What a Jerk)

[annm4peace]

By Douglas Burns 7/21/08 2:05 PM

Congressman Steve King is now using a preposterous hypothetical that characterizes our servicemen as booze-hounds prone to one-night stands and black-out drunk marriages.

King, a Kiron Republican who is not even subtle with his beliefs that America should be populated by native-born whites, is a strong supporter of the so-called “widow penalty.” More than 150 foreign-born widows and widowers face deportation because their spouses died less than two years after the marriages and before citizenship paperwork could be processed.

Congress is working to end the tragedy but King doesn’t want to cut the widows a break, in large part because he questions the legitimacy of mixed-race families, believing them a product of white men wilding on foreign soils with exotic women. Read his own words:

“A soldier, man or woman, could get drunk in Bangkok, wake up in the morning and be married, as will happen sometimes in places like Las Vegas or Bangkok, be killed the next day, and the spouse who was a product of the evening’s celebration would have then a right to claim access to come to the United States on a green card,” King said during debate on the widow penalty, according to The Des Moines Register.

There are thousands of mixed-race military families that are beautiful unions, brimming with the family values King’s crowd espouses. To suggest that our military men don’t have the character to connect with foreigners in a meaningful, loving way is demeaning. King’s also saying our soldiers don’t have much self-restraint or self-respect. The lecherous imagery he conjures is more fitting for the old drafted Army (which King avoided while he wasn’t graduating from Northwest Missouri State) than the modern professional military.

If King trusts our servicepeople to do his fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan then surely they ought to be able to avoid unwanted marriages in Bangkok.

In the end, King’s comments reveal that he views non-American (white) women as toys in sexual adventures — things to be tossed aside, not loved and cherished as humans that add to our culture and families.

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[PDJane]

1. Goddess on a cracker.........

Where do you find these throwbacks and how the HELL do they get elected to public office?

[SoCalDem]

2. What an ass..

I knew a guy in Indiana (a vietnam vet) who , along with his parents, sold off most of their land to pay bribes and buy passage for his vietnamese wife and about 10 of her family members..

My friend Rita & I met him one day when wer were having our first garage sale..

We had mostly women & kids all morning, then about noon, this gangly guy showed up and literally bought most of what we had..toys, coats, clothes, household stuff.. About an hour later he came back, and asked us if we had any girl's stuff.. we did not..(we each had a boy).. We started talking and that's when he told us about his HUGE new family.. he managed to bring out her parents, 2 sisters & their kids, an aunt & uncle and a couple of cousins, and they were all staying in the family farm-house..

Rita & I got his number and got on the phone & rounded up a bunch of stuff for them & took it out to them.. The guy & his Mom & Dad invited us and our families to dinner a week later.. First time I ever had vietnamese food..

I'm sure his mom & dad did not plan for their son to marry anyone but a local Indiana girl, but they loved his vietnamese wife, their baby and her whole family..

The irony is this.. Our local paper did a story about him, and a bunch of other soldiers with vietnamese wives hooked up with them, and it was not very long before there was a fantastic new restaurant in town, and all the young ones spoke fluent english and were doing fine in school..

We moved away , but that soldier's young baby went all the way through school with my friend's son, Bryan..

People didn;t used to be mean ..

[MikeNearMcChord]

3. Was Steve King born a A-hole, or did he have to work on it?

[Sal Minella]

4. What I wonder about is his mother -- if I had a son like Steve King, I would commit suicide out of

grief and shame.