Currently in the race:
Julian Castro
John Delaney
Tulsi Gabbard
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kamala Harris
Richard Ojeda
Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yang
Currently in the race:
Julian Castro
John Delaney
Tulsi Gabbard
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kamala Harris
Richard Ojeda
Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yang
Nm
They aren’t looking for an ideologically pure antiwar stance. They are trying to undermine the antiwar stance.
You can test this because these same people will be supporting true hawks, not some obscure true peacenik.
I’m actually not as opposed to her as I once was. If she were to be the nominee and pick, oh say, Sherrod Brown as her running mate, I could get behind that. Still ain’t my first choice to take on Trump, but I could see a path with the right messaging and running mate.
I learned a new word today: momala, which Kamala uses to describe herself. From googling, it’s apparently the woman who mothers your kids, as opposed to your baby-mama who gave birth to them.
On the one hand, it’s a great sentiment. On the other hand, using a term from African-American dialect to label yourself is going to mobilize certain segments of the population against you something fierce. On the gripping hand, though, those segments of the population were going to be very tough for any Democrat to reach.
My googling shows it to be a Yiddish word for “little mother” used as a term of endearment for a little girl.
I’d never heard of the Black Israelites until this week, and now they’re all over the place!
I met and heard Harris speak at a backyard fundraiser in NE Ohio about a year ago (along with Sherrod Brown, as it happens). She was OK but not great.
What, who? Every time I see this name I think of Pete Davidson’s friend John Mulaney.
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Uh. That’s just Will Ferrell in a bald cap. Is he doing some kind of Sacha Baron Cohen bit?
Isn’t that “mamala” instead of “momala”?
Brown is the coffee of the day for the Democrats who think he could flip Ohio.
He’s not a good speaker, nor is he " famous " As such he will have a tough time standing tall in a crowded field.
Can we win the nomination? In this field, sure. The winner of this race could be an unknown at this point. It’s that wide open.
Maybe, but the term came from her jewish step children and according to an older Vogue article the word was “S-Mamala”. And the kids were getting a little old for her to be doing much step-mothering anyway.
“Coffee of the day”?
saw Brown first time on TV, that odd voice of his is going to be a problem for him if he runs. It seemed like sometimes his voice was OK but other times it was the gravelly sound.
For those who don’t know:
Pronounced boot-edge-edge.
37 years old
Mayor of South Bend, IN
Navy vet
Served in Afghanistan
Gay
Probably angling for a veep or cabinet slot
I heard him give a speech last summer. He was an excellent speaker–dynamic, organized, clearly thoughtful about the issues. (The pronunciation he gave of his name was actually more like Boot-a-geesh…)
Yeah, hard to see how he’s going to catch fire here. Part of his problem is that it’s difficult to see where he can go in Indiana. His congressional district is pretty Republican, so the House won’t be easy; the state leans GOP, so senator or governor won’t be easy either; under these circumstances a Cabinet post might make some sense. I’ll certainly be interested to see where he heads next.
Here’s Wiki on him: Pete Buttigieg - Wikipedia
Looks like some police issues in his city. Might be a hard sell for black Dems.
Hey Uncle Joe, as you ponder whether or not you run in 2020, maybe take a moment to explain why you were stumping for a Republican congressman (who was entirely beatable) in Michigan just before the 2018 midterms.