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MadMark FEB 21, 10:03 PM
It's no wonder why the Democrats are going crazy. Just look at the statistics for the Trump Rally in Phoenix. 18% Democrats showing up to a Trump Rally and being enthusiastic Trump Supporters. 25% of the people who showed up didn't vote in the last presidential election either. Can you say blowout?

https://pjmedia.com/electio...-didnt-vote-in-2016/
randye FEB 22, 12:29 AM
Best pundit line about the last Dem debate:

"It might be the first time in history that a white man paid almost a half a billion dollars to get scalped by a fake indian."

[This message has been edited by randye (edited 02-22-2020).]

cliffw FEB 22, 05:31 AM

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Originally posted by 2.5:

Buttigieg, what he's probably got going for him is another recognition "card" .
He could be "the first...."



… gay President.


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Originally posted by 2.5:
"For Ivins, Buttigieg was gay, but he was not queer. This might seem like semantics to older, and straight, voters, but for some millennials it matters. "



He is gay, and queer.

At the beginning of Joe Biden's launch to his second run for the presidency Quid Pro Joe said Obama Clean, Articulate, Bright African-American.

That likely will be overshadowed by some candid comments made in an interview with Jason Horowitz of the New York Observer, in 2007.


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Most noteworthy is what he says about Barack Obama: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Presuming Biden is being accurately quoted here–which is never a safe assumption with the press–it seems obvious that he left out a rather key phrase (which may have been implied by the context of the larger conversation): “presidential candidate.” And I presume by “clean” he means “clean-cut” rather than “bathes regularly.”
If the quote is, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean-cut and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man,”.



Pete Buttigieg is such a guy ( ? ).

I wonder … if Obama, who is half white, is called the "first Black President" will Buttigieg be the first female President ?

He was quoted in an after debate interview as saying he loves his husband.
williegoat FEB 22, 07:03 PM
Right now (and I know it is early) it looks like Bernie is the run-away favorite and Joe is staging a comeback (such as it is) with a distant second. Loathsome Lizzy, Pitiful Pete and the rest are all in the "also ran" column.
randye FEB 22, 08:07 PM
williegoat FEB 22, 11:26 PM
I'm thinking that a Sanders/Buttigieg ticket might be a strong possibility.
randye FEB 23, 12:07 AM
rinselberg FEB 23, 12:34 AM

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Originally posted by cliffw:
I wonder … if Obama, who is half white, is called the "first Black President" will Buttigieg be the first female President ?

He was quoted in an after debate interview as saying he loves his husband.


Before there was a President Obama, "Our first black President" was an accolade bestowed (somewhat famously) upon Bill Clinton, in 1998.


"Toni Morrison defended, championed and chastised presidents"

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She called Bill Clinton "our first black president" — a turn of phrase that stirred years of debate, and for which she later expressed a measure of regret.


Daniel Larkin for NBC News; August 6, 2019.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop...-presidents-n1039591

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williegoat FEB 23, 08:43 AM
OK, so rinselberg says we had a black president back nearly 30 years ago and rayb says we had a homosexual president at some undisclosed time in the past. Can we now just focus on electing an American president?
williegoat FEB 27, 11:57 AM
If the polls are to be believed, South Caolina is going to resuscitate Biden's campaign, but it might just be prolonging the agony.

Stupor Tuesday will likely poise the hammer above the bell which will sound the death knell for all but the three "Super Bees": Bernie, Biden, Bloomberg