# Who is Pete Buttigieg?

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**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-pete-buttigieg/831032 "2019-03-12T21:59:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-pete-buttigieg/831032/73 "2019-03-17T18:13:40Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> Obama was a nobody from nowhere.

You didn’t ask if he could be the American Obama. You asked if he could be the American Trudeau.

He also can’t be the American Obama because, among other things, Obama is the American Obama.

Here’s a post of mine comparing Tulsi Gabbard to Obama, but the same argument applies to Pete Buttegieg.

> [@The Tulsi Gabbard Presidential campaign thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tulsi-gabbard-presidential-campaign-thread/827665/70):
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> [2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address: Reception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Democratic_National_Convention_keynote_address#Reception)
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> “That is an amazing moment in history right there. It is surely an amazing moment. A keynoter like I have never heard. […] I have seen the first black president there.” - Chris Matthews
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> “This is why you go to conventions, to watch a speech like this.” - David Brooks
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> “A star is born.” - Mark Shields
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> “If he wrote that speech, then he should be president, because it’s such a great speech. If he didn’t, he should be president because he found such a great speechwriter.” - Hendrik Hertzberg
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> “He is a star…For Barack, the sky’s the limit.” - Michael Madigan
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> “It was such a moving speech that I had tears in my eyes…It was electrifying. When I looked around the room, all across the people were so emotional, tears in their eyes. They’re crying.” - Emil Jones
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> “I thought that was one of the most electrifying moments that I can remember at any convention.” - Hillary Clinton
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> “When Obama runs for the White House, he will run not as a candidate for blacks. He has the capacity to run as a candidate for everyone.” - Artur Davis
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> If Tulsi Gabbard had a moment like this in 2016, I must have missed it.

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