eliya wrote:Everything he said so far shows that he's a centrist. Unity through vacuity coupled with an alignment of personal attributes, like N Robinson says.

Sad Bill de Blasio looking out his window at Mayor Pete playing outside

Ike wrote:Angus Jung wrote:After Gaza Slaughter, Buttigieg Praised Israeli Security Responses as ˜Moving and Faulted Democrats for Easy JudgmentLast May, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg went to Israel with the American Jewish Committee and two weeks later discussed his trip with that organization. At the time Israel was killing Palestinian protesters at the Gaza fence “ 60 on one day within days of Buttigieg s visit, getting global attention ” yet Buttigieg repeatedly praised Israel s security arrangements as œmoving and œclear-eyed , said the U.S. could learn something from them, and blamed Palestinians and Hamas for the œmisery in Gaza. Okay. That's fucked up. Awful and fucked up.Yeah, it's certainly not great. Disappointing.

Everything he said so far shows that he's a centrist. Yeah, he's great for South Bend and Indiana as a whole, but don't kid yourselves.

Angus Jung wrote:After Gaza Slaughter, Buttigieg Praised Israeli Security Responses as ˜Moving and Faulted Democrats for Easy JudgmentLast May, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg went to Israel with the American Jewish Committee and two weeks later discussed his trip with that organization. At the time Israel was killing Palestinian protesters at the Gaza fence “ 60 on one day within days of Buttigieg s visit, getting global attention ” yet Buttigieg repeatedly praised Israel s security arrangements as œmoving and œclear-eyed , said the U.S. could learn something from them, and blamed Palestinians and Hamas for the œmisery in Gaza. Okay. That's fucked up. Awful and fucked up.

Gigabutt.

He'd do everyone a favor if he ran for statewide office in Indiana instead.

Like Beto already proved I don't think Buttigieg could win Indiana state wide. Which is weird to then jump to "I'll run for president then!", and going from 'no chance in hell' to 'uh oh he's picking up a bit of momentum in an Obama sort of way'.Not the worst and if this is the direction things go, fine, but I'm not ready to get behind it yet.

jimmy two hands wrote:He'd do everyone a favor if he ran for statewide office in Indiana instead.This is a common response re: Beto in Texas too, right. These young hip centrists from elite backgrounds could challenge Republicans at lower level offices but they're raising their own profiles via presidential runs instead, without any policy agendas or organic bases in social movements. Like what kind of guy does that? The Robinson piece could've used an editor, like Jesus, and it was written by a Bernie partisan, but there was a lot of significant information and insights there.