03-31-2019, 12:15 PM
I'm really liking what I've seen of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg more than the other candidates at this point.
He's the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He's also a Navy veteran and the first openly gay elected official in Indiana (he had to attract a lot of Republican voters to win his race; no small feat in a state being governed by Mike Pence).
Every time I've seen him interviewed, he's informed on domestic and global issues, measured, very intelligent, and doesn't skirt answering or repeat party talking points.
I also like that he's willing to appear on FOX News to make his case. None of the other Democratic candidates do so because it's a propaganda network for the President at this point. Well, in my opinion, that's precisely why a challenger should take the opportunity to espouse alternative views to voters who get their political news only from FOX (which has the largest audience).
While I disagree with some of her proposals more so than Buttigieg's, I also think Elizabeth Warren is very good and direct when it comes to addressing and communicating issues and policy solutions, and I don't give a shit about the butthurt "Pocohanas" idiocy.
I was told I was primarily Dutch my whole life by my parents. My last name is Dutch. However, when we had our family DNA analyzed a couple of years back, nada on the Dutch. We're Irish, Scottish, and English. No one in my family was lying about our heritage all these years, we were just misinformed.
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He's the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He's also a Navy veteran and the first openly gay elected official in Indiana (he had to attract a lot of Republican voters to win his race; no small feat in a state being governed by Mike Pence).
Every time I've seen him interviewed, he's informed on domestic and global issues, measured, very intelligent, and doesn't skirt answering or repeat party talking points.
I also like that he's willing to appear on FOX News to make his case. None of the other Democratic candidates do so because it's a propaganda network for the President at this point. Well, in my opinion, that's precisely why a challenger should take the opportunity to espouse alternative views to voters who get their political news only from FOX (which has the largest audience).
While I disagree with some of her proposals more so than Buttigieg's, I also think Elizabeth Warren is very good and direct when it comes to addressing and communicating issues and policy solutions, and I don't give a shit about the butthurt "Pocohanas" idiocy.
I was told I was primarily Dutch my whole life by my parents. My last name is Dutch. However, when we had our family DNA analyzed a couple of years back, nada on the Dutch. We're Irish, Scottish, and English. No one in my family was lying about our heritage all these years, we were just misinformed.
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