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Interesting new possibility for VP. Senator Gary Peters from Michigan. Plus he’s got a beard! The ghost of Schuyler Colfax!!
Palin was announced/debuted in Ohio, JD Vance in Wisconsin. Kaine in Florida...Kamala is staring her political tour with her new veep pick in Philadelphia. Sounds to me like a tip it will be Shapiro.
Palin was announced/debuted in Ohio, JD Vance in Wisconsin. Kaine in Florida...Kamala is staring her political tour with her new veep pick in Philadelphia. Sounds to me like a tip it will be Shapiro.
Wouldn't it be better to lead everyone on and announce her pick in Chicago at the convention instead?Kamala is staring her political tour with her new veep pick in Philadelphia. Sounds to me like a tip it will be Shapiro.
Nope. At least one state (Ohio) requires names before 8/7 or there abouts. That is why there is to be the virtual nomination delegate vote.Wouldn't it be better to lead everyone on and announce her pick in Chicago at the convention instead?Kamala is staring her political tour with her new veep pick in Philadelphia. Sounds to me like a tip it will be Shapiro.
You are right: it should not matter. But to date exactly zero women have been elected POTUS. Only one person of color has ever been elected POTUS.Her ethnic origin should not matter one way or the other.A black Indian woman as president is a marvelous thing to contemplate.
Qualified, yes, but what do you think makes her "super-qualified"?And she is clearly super-qualified.
Shapiro has cancelled a long-scheduled trip the Hamptons where he was to attend several fund-raisers for his own campaign committee. Are the tea leaves telling us something?
That does not mean that future POTUS candidates should be selected based on not being white or male.You are right: it should not matter. But to date exactly zero women have been elected POTUS. Only one person of color has ever been elected POTUS.
Biden was not chosen in 2020 because he was a white man. Obama wasn't chosen because he was a black man but because he won a competitive primary.So why is it now that when a woman of black and Indian heritage running for POTUS, is race and gender an issue that must not be considered?
It is certainly not right to punish present day white and male potential candidates because of what happened in the past. All candidates should be evaluated on their merits. Tell me why you think Kamala Harris is a great candidate for president, and no, neither her genitalia nor her ancestry are good reasons.It’s weird to be decrying race and gender politics now.
I do hope it's him. The fact that anti-Israel activists hate him is an added bonus.Shapiro has cancelled a long-scheduled trip the Hamptons where he was to attend several fund-raisers for his own campaign committee. Are the tea leaves telling us something?
Dems have this tragic flaw of frequently misunderestimating[sic] their Republican opponents. Gore did it with W. Hillary did it with Trump. I hope whomever is picked for running mate does not do it with Vance.Hold their own against…,Vance? Who has close to zero personal charisma? He writes well but he gaffs a lot.
It was more than early release. I would be more understanding if he were only released on parole. But his sentence was also commuted, such that he was not on parole when he was arrested on gun and drugs (incl. fentanyl) charges last year. He was also arrested this year.Re: Tim Walz being ‘soft’ on a child murderer. Walz was part of a three person panel who granted release for a man who was convicted as a 16 year old minor of firing a shot that killed an 11 year old girl in what was supposedly a gang related shooting.
Many criminals do. Doesn't mean anything. Burrell specifically had three different and mutually exclusive alibis for where he supposedly was at the time of shooting. Obviously these are manufactured alibis.He’s always maintained his innocence.
Burrell was 16. Old enough to know better than to shoot at people. Note that he was, at the time of murder, a veteran gang member, first as a Vice Lord and later as a Blood.He’s served more years than he was alive at the time of the shooting. The child’s death is a terrible tragedy. But I think it’s a different kind of tragedy to lock away for life almost any teenager.
He certainly made some bad decisions in 2020. The weak response to the riots as well as the Burrell commutation.I’m not super keen on Walz as POTUS or VP. He’s very much a politician. Which dues not mean that he does not make good decisions. I’m just saying that is my impression of him as a person,
Shapiro is a viable candidate, and would certainly blunt accusations that the Democrat support for Israel is somehow lacking. But I still think Kelly is the better choice.I do hope it's him. The fact that anti-Israel activists hate him is an added bonus.Shapiro has cancelled a long-scheduled trip the Hamptons where he was to attend several fund-raisers for his own campaign committee. Are the tea leaves telling us something?
Pro-Palestinian Groups Seek to Thwart Josh Shapiro’s Chances for Harris’s V.P.
Age. Get a young person. Kelly is OK, outspoken, thinks, has to say something.Interesting new possibility for VP. Senator Gary Peters from Michigan. Plus he’s got a beard! The ghost of Schuyler Colfax!!
But that's not for you to say, is it? You don't get to set the parameters.It is certainly not right to punish present day white and male potential candidates because of what happened in the past. All candidates should be evaluated on their merits. Tell me why you think Kamala Harris is a great candidate for president, and no, neither her genitalia nor her ancestry are good reasons.
It is certainly not right to punish present day white and male potential candidates because of what happened in the past.
All candidates should be evaluated on their merits. Tell me why you think Kamala Harris is a great candidate for president, and no, neither her genitalia nor her ancestry are good reasons.