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Throughout the democrat presidential reality show, I put off making a choice. I said I would wait until the Georgia primary, and see how things looked. This primary was scheduled for March 24. This was 12 days after the Atlanta kicked off covid-19 lockdown with a snowjam shopping spree. Soon, all public events were cancelled. The primary is scheduled for June 9.
Joe Biden is presumably going to be the nominee. The last challenger, Bernie Sanders, dropped out the other day. Sleepy Joe is looking like another “it’s his turn” candidate. These IHT candidates seldom win. Donald Trump has not done a good job as President, and deserves to lose. It remains to be seen if Sleepy Joe is the man for the job.
Tulsi Gabbard made a good impression. She makes opposition to regime change wars the focus of her campaign. The ferocious opposition that greeted Tulsi indicates that many establishment Democrats feel threatened. The good news is that Tulsi is 38 years old. This is less than half the age of Joe Biden, or Bernie Sanders. Tulsi, and Pete Buttigieg, will be around for a while.
There were 7 candidates when this post started. This compares to the 7 dwarfs, or the 7 husbands of Elizabeth Taylor. The silly 7, in first name order: Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard.
@amyklobuchar “U.S. Senator from Minnesota and candidate for President. Text AMY to 91990 to join our homegrown campaign” Amy Jean Klobuchar, the wife of John Bessler, did not make much of an impression. She was the only candidate to wear a dress in the Las Vegas debate.
@BernieSanders “U.S. Senator from Vermont and candidate for President of the United States.” Bernie Sanders is one of two candidates with no middle name, resulting in descriptive initials. BS had some good ideas for spending money, and equally bad ideas about how to pay for it. BS has awesomely obnoxious fanboys, the Bernie Bros. One of the worst was Nina Turner, a paid staffer.
@EliLake “I know there is a lot handwringing in the pro-Israel community about Bernie’s decision to BDS AIPAC. Why? His absence is clarifying. If you’re under any illusions that a Sanders presidency would not be hostile to Israel, now you know.” This commentary at Bloomberg.com was a signal that the BS campaign was doomed. If AIPAC is opposed to your candidacy, you are not going to win. This suggests that the Mike Bloomberg candidacy was not just a vanity endeavor.
@ewarren “U.S. Senator, former teacher, and candidate for president. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, @CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.” Bless her 0.1% Cherokee heart. The former Elizabeth Ann Herring married, and divorced, Jim Warren. She kept the Warren name after she married Bruce H. Mann.
Sen. Warren displays preferred pronouns in her twitter bio, which is grounds for automatic disqualification. She has a few good ideas, and just enough onstage charisma to keep her interesting. Sen. Warren is mentioned as a possible VPOTUS candidate, despite being 99.9% white.
@JoeBiden “Senator, Vice President, 2020 candidate for President of the United States, husband to @DrBiden, proud father & grandfather. Loves ice cream, aviators & @Amtrak” Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is married to Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden. Mr. Biden is 77 years old, and in obvious mental decline. He should not be running for President. We are stuck with him.
I foolishly gave the Biden campaign my email address. Between May 7, and June 26, I received 88 emails asking for money. Every time one of these messages came in, Windows put a popup message on my desktop. “I’m Joe Biden, and I approved this message.”
@MikeBloomberg “Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and mayor of NYC. Running for president to defeat Donald Trump & rebuild America. Tell me your thoughts on America: 859-695-6453.” Michael Rubens Bloomberg tried to buy the Presidency, and failed. There is speculation about his true motives. “In 1975, Bloomberg married Susan Elizabeth Barbara Brown … divorced Brown in 1993 … Since 2000, Bloomberg has lived with … Diana Taylor.”
@PeteButtigieg “Afghanistan veteran, South Bend’s Mayor Pete, husband. Running for president to rally Americans together to meet our urgent challenges. Boot-Edge-Edge. (he/him)” Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is married to Chasten Buttigieg (Glezman). “Mayor Pete” was an interesting figure, inspiring unlikely support and intense opposition.
Pete did not handle the race issue well. After The Root called Pete “Lying MF”, the Mayor called back to chat. In that interview, he said “systemic racism, and white supremacy in particular, I believe, is the force that is most likely to destroy the United States of America.”
The current health crisis has put medical workers under the gun, working long hours under dangerous conditions. Mayor Pete wanted to punish Doctors with non-compliant racial values. “we also need … removal from their jobs if you are racist. If you’re nakedly racist, then you have no business being in charge, of being in care of anybody.”
@TulsiGabbard “US Presidential candidate standing for a better America. Wife, Sister, Veteran, Surfer, Friend. #StandWithTulsi #EndWastefulWars” Tulsi is married to Abraham Williams. Rep. Gabbard has shortcomings, and might not be able to win a national election. However, she is the first conspicuously anti-war candidate since George McGovern. Given America’s profitable passion for killing Muslims, it is not surprising that the Gabbard candidacy ran into such emotional opposition. Pictures today from The Library of Congress.