True, but from what it sounds like, there has been a serious disconnect between his own idea of his performance and some members of South Bend’s community. It also brings to mind something that I think is an inherent blind spot of white progressives: they think that just because they have progressive ideas that they necessarily connect and identify with people of color, and that is just not the case. Bernie Sanders had the same problem in 2016, and to his credit, whereas I think he kind of blew the criticisms off back then, he has made more of an effort to understand his critics. I don’t consider myself a huge Bernie for Prez guy, but I respect him for that. Mayor Pete needs to go through a similar process, I feel.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find out there are people in a city that criticize the mayor. And, of course, this goes double for a mayor that’s running for president and some of the city activists prefer other candidates.
He’s only five years younger than JFK was when he got elected.
And look how he ended up.
But Reagan was also the target of an assassination as the oldest president.
I’m not a doctor so I don’t know if JFK would had access to medical technology from 1981 if he would have survived.
Ship them all to Michigan Stadium and you have 15,000 empty seats.
Not small by some standards but maybe not the best experience for jumping to the White House.
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I am shocked, SHOCKED, that someone who supports Mayor Pete would dismiss the feelings of those who know him best if those feelings weren’t all sunshine and puppies.
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But we’re not just talking about a few people who criticize the mayor; it seems that a significant number of Black residents in South Bend have unanswered concerns, and now that Black Americans are getting a chance to dig into his record, a number of them appear to be not as impressed with him and his record either. That doesn’t mean he can’t change their minds. As I pointed out previously (either here or on another thread), Bernie Sanders had a similar problem with Black voters in 2016, and the evidence is that he seems to be running a much less tone-deaf campaign now.
Even with today’s medical technology, “shot through the brain” is usually instantly fatal.
Reagan’s White House staff doctor wrote a book awhile back, discussing presidential assassinations and who might’ve been saved with modern medical care. Lincoln, probably not, IIRC; Garfield and McKinley, almost certainly yes; JFK, definitely not.
How cute. I assume you’ve never written a resume?
How cute. You don’t know that some people, not even the politicians, have been forced to quit jobs or been fired because they lied on their resume?
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He didn’t lie. He pumped up that his work informed decisions and made clear he wasn’t in charge of shit when he started going for the big job. I’m not a Buttigieg booster but the Warren sponsored peanut gallery is pretty full of shit.
Then why don’t you define lying? Let’s start with Native American ancestry, shall we?
How cute, you change the subject.
No, let’s keep talking about how much Mayor Pete sucks. That’s the subject of this thread.
To recap:
2011: “I am the only candidate with experience working on billion-dollar decisions…”
2019: “I had little decision making authority.”
Both are true because neither is a lie.
I agree that Buttigieg is making no headway at all among black voters. But he’s hardly alone.
An Emerson poll this month had Biden with 52% of the African American vote. I guess you could say that Sanders is doing better than he did last time (19%–in 2016 he received about 24% if memory serves, with fewer candidates of course)–but it’s not an impressive showing and it’s not as though African Americans are flocking to him.
Warren is not attracting black voters at all (the poll has her at a pretty dreadful 7%), and Klobuchar, Steyer, and Yang don’t even appear in the poll summary.
–Obviously you’d rather be in sanders’s position, or for that matter Warren’s, than be in Buttigieg’s shoes where AA voters are concerned. Still, it’s notable that no one other than Biden is really making any headway with African Americans, and I would agree that if that Biden support falls apart the mayor could certainly be one of the beneficiaries.
Pete doesn’t suck. Warren has shown herself to be a liar. As much as I want her out of this race, I know the #1 enemy is Sanders and while they’re both in, they can Canablize the votes of the ‘true progressives’
Nah. Pete sucks.
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