Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete, what were you thinking? [View all]Celerity
(43,372 posts)and/or troll-driven rehash of pull quote from a 2 and half month old article that had almost zero comments up until a few hours ago (it now has close to 700, it was well over 800, but some of the bots have been removed)
context and a previous attempt at the same type of attack from a week ago:
Buttigieg: I dont want this to slide into the idea that some of these racist behaviors can be excused because they can be connected to economic issues.
How Democrats can defeat Trump and his ugly ideas, according to Pete Buttigieg
https://www.democraticunderground.com/128742675
Pete Buttigieg must be surging, Wonkette exposes dirty twitter troll tricks against him
That's Not What He Said! Mayor Pete / Hillary Clinton Edition
https://www.democraticunderground.com/128733687
and some more evidence that he is NOT at all going Trump a pass, has consistently attacked him, has also repeatedly attacked white nationalism and racism of every stripe, and about how social and racial justice being key
Pete Buttigieg On Political Honesty, His Black Agenda, Open Homosexuality + More
and here are some articles that also specifically talk about white racism
Buttigieg: 'Americans are being radicalized' by Trump administration
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/436340-buttigieg-americans-are-being-radicalized-by-trump-administration
Buttigieg added, however, that he thinks "improving our economic condition" and achieving racial and social justice "go hand in hand."
Pete Buttigieg Says Mike Pence Is At Best Complicit In White Nationalism Revival
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-buttigieg-mike-pence-white-nationalism_n_5c9c9722e4b07c886631526b
Pete Buttigieg tells SC voters 2020 presidential race is about justice
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-tells-sc-voters-presidential-race-is-about-justice/article_2e4d015a-4d82-11e9-854e-071b072ed647.html
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Buttigieg said Democrats need more younger leaders who understand racial and social justice as well as more leaders from Republican-dominated states.
We cannot continue to be regarded as a party that is only for the deepest blue communities, he said. There is written nowhere that a state like South Carolina or Indiana or anywhere else has to be conservative forever.
Buttigieg, who took military training in Columbia before deploying to Afghanistan with the Navy Reserve, said Republicans are not willing to tackle the security issues caused by climate change, computer hackers and white nationalists.
White nationalism is a deadly threat that has claimed lives as far away as New Zealand and as close to home as Charleston, he said. So lets do something about that.
Also, Biden (and Obama more recently is echoing this to a point as well, at least thematically) has been doing the same thing for over 2 years now
Joe Biden wants to make sure Democrats don't give up on Trump voters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-last-stand-convincing-democrats-not-to-give-up-on-the-white-working-class-voters-fueling-trump/2016/10/21/d4230d4a-7a94-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html
Obama and Biden are on mission to win back swing state voters
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/obama-biden-are-mission-win-back-swing-state-voters-n925966
Two years later, Biden seems to be on a mission to again help his party answer that question head-on. And to do so, both he and former President Obama have been targeting those very voters who helped put them in the White House for eight years, then voted to elect President Trump.
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Neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom, neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards instead of forwards, Obama said there. But over the past few decades, the politics of division, of resentment and paranoia, has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.
Bidens standard pitch to voters, like Obama's, also speaks to a concern that he says is bigger than politics Americas values and standing in the world. Its a message that seems designed to offer a permission slip to Independents and Republicans who reluctantly turned to Trump to return to the Democratic fold.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden