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Something to chew on:https://pjmedia.com/trending/
It should be evident Obama did transform America and laid the keel for radicalizing both our nation and his Party.
Now the radicalized Democrat Party wants to shove America to the wall but not build one.
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Joe Biden has never been right about most anything in his entire life and virtually every one of the policies he endorsed and/or supported proved disastrous.
He is a political chameleon. I hope The Democrats nominate him but doubt they will because he is not radical enough - too white- too old - too plain vanilla/ too bland.
How Biden Plans to Steamroll the 2020 Dem Field Gabriel DeBenedetti, NY Magazine
Biden's In for Rude Awakening: It's Not His Party Anymore S.E. Cupp, NY Daily News
In the case of Bernie, he is also too white and old but at least he is radical and angry.
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So if not Joe and/or Bernie then who is the mass media's fall back candidate? (See 1 below.)++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Comment from a dear friend and fellow memo reader:
"This country was built on rule of law……innocent unless proven guilty.
The Dems have changed that on the Russian Collusion:
Guilty after proven innocent. C----"
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So long, Beto O’Rourke. It was fun while it lasted. The mainstream media has a new presidential crush now, one just as cloyingly nicknamed, vague on policy and whose biggest success is also failing upward: Mayor Pete.
Buttigieg was also recently the subject of another glowing profile on “CBS Sunday Morning,” saying that one of his greatest assets as a candidate is his own character. “The presidency is also a moral office,” he told John Dickerson.
It’s gotten so bad that NBC News is reporting that campaigns on both sides are frantically digging for “opposition research” — mainly, anything that runs counter to Buttigieg’s narrative — because the media’s done nothing but prop him up.
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The media’s endless fawning over Pete Buttigieg won’t end well
So long, Beto O’Rourke. It was fun while it lasted. The mainstream media has a new presidential crush now, one just as cloyingly nicknamed, vague on policy and whose biggest success is also failing upward: Mayor Pete.
This 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, we are giddily informed, is checking all the right boxes: He served in the Navy and deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence officer; he speaks seven languages; his father is an immigrant; he’s a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar; he plays piano; he has two rescue dogs; and — the piece de resistance — he’s a Christian gay man!
And just like that, celebrity elites swing Pete-ward too: According to The Hollywood Reporter, mega-producer Ryan Murphy and other prominent gay A-listers are planning a fundraiser to be held June 19.
No matter that Mayor Pete (last name Buttigieg, but the media loves the cuddly appellation) did not fulfill his grandiose vow to make South Bend, population 102,245, “truly a global city” upon his election in 2011, or that he controversially fired the city’s first African American police chief just before a march protesting the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, or that he has no real accomplishments and is running, as O’Rourke is, on youth, charisma, and identity politics while offering zero in the way of policy. Even Buttigieg’s friend and supporter David Axelrod admits it.
“Elizabeth Warren is … running laps around people right now in terms of producing policy,” Axelrod told New York magazine. “Now you’re in the game and you’re drinking from a fire hose, and you have to scale up very, very quickly.”
Meanwhile, Warren — no matter your politics, there’s no arguing she’s far more experienced and substantive than Buttigieg — announces the radical new policy of forgiving college loan debt and can’t draw eyeballs back her way.
Instead, here’s Mayor Pete jumping to third place in recent New Hampshire and Iowa polls, raising $7 million in his first quarter. His so-called feud with Mike Pence over his sexuality — a feud Pence and his wife say is news to them — comes with a sanctimonious, old-time-y soundbite: “Your quarrel is not with me,” Buttigieg likes to say. “Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”
Buttigieg was also recently the subject of another glowing profile on “CBS Sunday Morning,” saying that one of his greatest assets as a candidate is his own character. “The presidency is also a moral office,” he told John Dickerson.
“It calls this nation to its highest character. And it sets the tone for the story that we tell ourselves. Narrative’s a very powerful thing.”
Leaving aside this arch proclamation — any notion of morality died in the mid-’90s with Bill Clinton and the Starr Report, and we were all complicit in that — “narrative” is a luxury when your main concern, as a voter, remains jobs and the economy.
But the media loves narrative, so never mind what they should be doing: conducting a forensic examination of Buttigieg’s background, his time in the service, his record; talking to residents of South Bend about a half-hearted mayor who has left them three times (deployment, a failed run for DNC chair, now this presidential run); what he’s said and done on social media, ever; looking into his big-money donors; and generally putting him under the kind of relentless scrutiny usually reserved for inexperienced Republican candidates like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.
It’s gotten so bad that NBC News is reporting that campaigns on both sides are frantically digging for “opposition research” — mainly, anything that runs counter to Buttigieg’s narrative — because the media’s done nothing but prop him up.
“He’s getting a very significant free pass on a lot of stuff that other candidates aren’t getting a free pass on,” one high-level staffer for a rival Dem candidate told NBC.
Case in point: how New York magazine put Mayor Pete on their most recent cover — just one month after Vanity Fair put Beto, he of “Man, I’m just born to be in it” on theirs — smiling beatifically and looking off in the distance, even as the piece itself strains, at times, to justify his run.
“He has an eye for making his brand seem bigger and larger than it is,” one Democratic consultant told the magazine.
“And eventually, if you fake it enough, that becomes true.”
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