I didn’t say anything about sexist.
Buttigieg has his good points, but I don’t think he’s really Pence’s type:
Mike Pence Shoulder-Fetish Update
So it’s probably safe for Mayor Pete to be alone with ol’ Mikey.
Presidential politics is attracting more and more bizarro candidates and the ‘debates’ are nothing more than a reality TV drama show. There’s nothing substantive that comes out of this circus. What comes out of it are the candidates who put on a show, which Williamson surely did last night.
I’ve liked him in the past when I’ve heard him interviewed. Last night he seemed a little low on charisma. I personally don’t care, but I don’t see him catching fire.
That’s not true at all. About 10% of British buy private insurance. No waiting, ect.
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/01/16/the-awkward-world-of-private-insurance-in-the-uk/
"*The insurance part isn’t too difficult to understand. People living in Britain can obtain private insurance, and about 10 percent of them do. About one-third of people with private insurance purchase it with their own money, while the rest receive it as a benefit of employment. Many of the big multinationals provide such insurance, either to all their employees or to senior executives. It’s considered a plum perk for everyone, and most expats coming to work in the UK consider it an essential benefit.
Private insurance covers care provided outside the tax-funded NHS system. Sometimes, people use it to obtain items that the NHS has chosen not to cover, like medications or devices with low cost-effectiveness ratios (as I described in my previous blog on NICE). But that’s unusual. Far more commonly, the insurance is used to purchase services that are freely available in the NHS, such as subspecialty consultation and elective surgery.
The delivery side is more interesting – and fraught – than the insurance side. Private insurance generally doesn’t cover primary care; most patients seem relatively satisfied with their publicly funded general practitioners (whom I described here) and most GPs make enough money that they don’t seek more work. The action in the private world stems from occasionally poor access to specialty care in the NHS, both because of limited numbers of specialists and gatekeeping by GPs. The result of these limitations is the famously long NHS queues – in the 1970s and 80s, patients often had to wait up to a year for an elective hip replacement…"*
So, while I think UHC is a great idea, the idea of banning private insurance and doctors is a bad one. If you wanna pay extra for fast service, fine by me.
This is what really bugs me. The fact that someone’s political career can be made or broken on one great sound bite or one faux pas. It’s nuts and it’s so emblematic of today.
It is a legit alt pronunciation, and people need to get over it.
Or mayor Pete.
Never Biden or Harris or Beto. Those guys are dangerous.
No. It’s not. And no. We don’t.
What were they chanting when Senator Booker was speaking just now?
“Boo-urns”.
Howard Dean agrees with you 
I was wondering that myself.
Got it
I’ll point out that Jimmy Carter, who served as an officer in the nuclear Navy, also pronounced it “nucular”. It’s not an indication of ignorance, it’s an indication of regional dialect.
Using this sort of idiosyncrasy as a metric to measure anyone’s capabilities is kind of like judging a car’s power train by the sound the electric windows make.
Thanks, E-DUB!
Biden has a few fumbles over his words but seems to have hit a better stride.
I think Harris’s talking over the moderators and fairly constant same indignant tone is going to grate some really soon.
Biden’s wading into dangerous waters here.
If I was Biden, and someone snarked me on a vote I did in the 70’s or 80’s, I’d just ask "well, how did you vote?" “I was just in high school!” "Exactly".
Booker really landed some blows in that exchange. He was tough but fair, IMO.
Is it just me or is Castro doing a Barack Obama impersonation? He’s pausing and saying “Uh” just like Barry used to.