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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:39 AM Apr 2019

Pete Buttigieg: Why we can wait

In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. published a book titled Why We Can’t Wait. In the book, he detailed the reasons why African-American people could not just wait out the horrible Jim Crow rules which burdened us as people. The book was very convincing. Soon, President Lyndon Johnson signed civil rights bills that would undo unfair discrimination against African-American people.

Years later, Johnson announced that he would not seek a second full term in the White House. His signing of the Civil Rights Bill brought us Richard Nixon and his Southern Plan, rolling back all of the concessions to African-Americans that we had gained under Johnson.

Fast-forward to 2019. The rising star of the coming presidential election season is Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard grad, Rhodes Scholar, young mayor of South Bend, Ind. and a deeply Christian married man, who seems unable to do any wrong. He is the first Democratic presidential candidate to take the Bill Maher challenge and go on Fox News.

I watched his interview a few Sundays ago on Fox Sunday with Chris Wallace and was mighty impressed by what I saw. Chris Wallace seemed to just gush with hope that Buttigieg would become the Democratic nominee for 2020. When Wallace joined his panel of guest pundits those panelists were just as gushingly complementary of the Indiana Wonder Boy.

Read more: https://www.dallasvoice.com/pete-buttigieg-why-we-can-wait/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Pete Buttigieg: Why we can wait (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP

I have very mixed feelings murielm99 Apr 2019 #1

Carpe diem. TexasTowelie Apr 2019 #2

He's been doing exactly that True Dough Apr 2019 #3

Agree! True Blue American Apr 2019 #4

'the Indiana Wonder Boy'? It's a hit piece. crazytown Apr 2019 #5

I think he was expressing what a lot of us fear may happen. The wonder boy patricia92243 Apr 2019 #6

murielm99

(30,745 posts)

1. I have very mixed feelings

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:48 AM

Apr 2019

about that article.

What's your take, TT?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts)

2. Carpe diem.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 05:12 AM

Apr 2019

Pete should seize the day and not worry about his detractors think or say (particularly the Republicans).

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

True Dough

(17,306 posts)

3. He's been doing exactly that

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 05:18 AM

Apr 2019

and with great success so far. There's still a long, long road ahead. But at 37, he has the energy, the personality and the message to keep building on the incredible momentum he's built so far.