I’d settle for that! Coming from MA, I don’t think we need to worry too much about a Republican Senator.
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Aha!
Thanks a lot for the knowledge.
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Buttigieg and Tulsi Gabbard are my choices to run the country, beginning today, and put Trump in chains, isolated in solitary, no potty or toilet paper and feed him Pablum, period, no heat, no A/C, no visitors. That is how Trump must live out his remaining time as the devil incarnate.
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Buttigieg is not a “kid”. He’s a seasoned politician and war veteran, unlike you. You are the “kid” if you don’t get it yet.
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Oh yeah. He’s a masterful communicator and can think about his various audiences’ background and attitudes as he does it. It takes more than raw intellectual throw weight to do that. Empathy, sophistication, other stuff. That’s a personal quality of his, obviously. But look at how many successful Democrats have a background that helps with understanding a broad range of people. The one who embodied that most was a two-term president who remains highly admired personally. Warren can talk to people from the Midwest. Beto. Mayor Pete, whose favorability rating in Iowa tops the others. It’s an interesting thing that complicates the stereotype of Dems as coastal elitists.
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There are only two branches of our government that are "winnable.’
Congress, and the presidency.
The third branch of government is the federal judiciary.
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Colorado has a spectacular new governor who is gay and is doing all the right things for we citizens of CO. My brother was gay. Every gay guy I’ve ever known has been superior in character and kindness in general to all heteros I’ve known.
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You’re right about Buttigieg—but Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset.
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It was Tapper who framed the “do you agree” question as “[Harris’s] promise to have her Justice Department prosecute Trump if she were elected.”
Buttigieg (wisely) didn’t argue with Tapper’s premise (did she really say it that way?), but, as he usually does, he stated what his policy would be.
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I’m a Warren fan and want to see her as Pres, if she loses, make her Treasury Secretary.
[/quote]I get that, but she will be needed in the Senate. When Bill picked Lloyd Bentson as Treasury Secretary, we lost Texas Senate seat to Rs for a generation and counting.
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I see him as a kid, too - but that’s about me not about him. I’ve reached an age where many people seem like kids to me - including the UCSF/Stanford trained orthopedic surgeon that saw my husband. The fact that we refer to him as a kid does not mean we don’t respect his credentials!
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With a quite homogeneous population of barely five million, Ireland is smaller than Massachusetts, so it may be a stretch to make the extrapolation, but I’m not disagreeing with your sentiment. I like the kid too (he’s younger than my youngest, so I’m allowed).
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Whoops - of course you’re right.
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At my age most everybody is a kid.
There is no reason for you to be upset. By comparison to most of the other candidates Buttigieg is very young. He represents a generational change.
I take exception with your assertion that he is a seasoned politician. He is the mayor of a small city. That is pretty thin beer for somebody who wants to be President.
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Which is exactly what one hears about Elizabeth Warren. Cream will rise.
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My two favorites at this point.
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Myself.
“Mayor of a small city” isn’t the whole picture. It isn’t like he sat behind a desk for eight years. He (and his administration) made downtown come back alive, with new hotels, good restaurants, a medical center, art museum, public concerts once a month in summer (“Meet me on the Island”); brought tech companies into the newly-restored (previously abandoned) Studebaker plant, among other incentives for new businesses, reviving the economy; experimented with better ways of responding to residents’ issues with infrastructure (potholes!), installed "smart sewers; improved traffic flow with landscaped roundabouts – just to name some things off the top of my head.
He was re-elected with 80% of the vote for his second term. In a barely purple city.
Edited to add: South Bend was listed as a “failed city” by (Time? Newsweek?) about the time Mayor Pete took office.
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Your fawning is very off putting. In fact you and tibetancowboy have me wondering whether he is running for President or running a cult.
The more I see of Mayor Pete, the more impressed I become.
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