So I end this with Williamson's advice to Donald Trump .
“Mr. President, if you’re listening, I want you to hear me, please,” Williamson said in her closing remarks in the debate. “You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out. So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you’re doing. I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field. And, sir, love will win.”
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>Anderson Cooper mocked the competition after a technical glitch . Trump tweeted from Air Force One, which had stopped off Anchorage, Alaska, en route to Japan, where the president will be attending the G-20 Summit. He tweeted again to deride the network broadcasting the debate when a hot mic issue forced NBC’s moderators to take a commercial break at the start of the second round.“@NBCNews and @MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate,” he tweeted. “Truly unprofessional and only worthy of a FAKE NEWS Organization, which they are!” (2)>>“But if we want to do this, we need to include everyone in our democracy. We need the representation of every voter, and we need to hear every voice.” The Democratic field is enormous and unprecedentedly diverse. It features several women, multiple candidates of African and Asian descent, one Latino and a gay man, Buttigieg, who at age 37 is less than half as old as the front-runner, Biden. But majorities of Democrats say those characteristics make no difference to their level of enthusiasm about a presidential candidate. Four in 10 Democratic voters said they would be more excited about voting for a woman for president, and 36% said the same of a younger candidate. Only about a quarter were more excited at the idea of supporting a candidate who is black or Latino, while roughly 2 in 10 said they’d be more excited to support an Asian candidate or lesbian, gay or bisexual candidate. (2.1)>>Mayor Pete Buttigieg. This one has me thinking , if
Buttigieg wins in some twist of events , just how will the world see the United States? A Gay US President . No, not a woman in the highest office as most feminist would envision . How identity politics works is by dividing the nation as in the Obama era as the first "Black President" , but could it set off a storm on our nations soil ? Will the nation rise above bigotry . Answer is NO . While Buttigieg is driving home the hypocrisy of church-going conservative white Christians, evangelical and Catholic, who still support a president whose policies go against Christianity at almost every turn. Buttigieg’s pre-Easter God talk has startled and rattled white conservative Christians, who’ve long claimed to be the nation’s sole exemplars of “family values.” (2.2)>>Tulsi Gabbard packed a big punch. She received little time. Among some conservative pundits there was one clear winner of Wednesday night’s Democratic primary debate: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the long-shot, anti-war Hawaii member of Congress. her unorthodox candidacy has attracted praise from those farther to the right as well. Gabbard has been controversial; she has apologized for holding anti-gay views in the past, including onstage during the debate, and she has been heavily criticized for meeting with the brutal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and for questioning whether his regime carried out chemical weapons attacks. But Wednesday night, she appeared to cement her status as the very online right’s favorite Democratic candidate. (3)>>It seems rather odd that the Democrats have 20 contenders for the OVAL OFFICE in the first place . The Democrats are much more diverse than ever before.Feeling dissatisfied by having too many choices is natural and sometimes inevitable, but the effects are correctable. Here are some strategies, grounded in behavioral science, that Democratic presidential candidates could adopt to try to mitigate the effects of choice overload. While there's a legitimate argument to be made for waiting for the 2020 primaries to bleed out candidates, some of those candidates are making headlines look like such a shitshow that we risk them looking like the 2016 Republican primaries. We all know how that turned out, and a squirelly Democratic Trump nominated on a plurality will fail in 2020 even if he's the easiest and most disorganized candidate to beat in terms of strategy. Most of these candidates can't win..why are they running? It is a waste of the people money. what happen to all of that campaign money when thet lose. Does it go back to the donors????? (4)>> This shows how politically divided the Democratic party really is. The big problem with the Democratic Party is basically that the Candidates running are using the label as being "Democrat" but masking ideas not associated with the party . The ONLY REAL DEMOCRAT is Joe Biden who a old school Democrat, LONG time politician from the NIXON era. Just Look at Julian Castro [ not related to the Cuban Dictator?] , just who is he ? We don't know him , he is so far from where Tusli Gabbard stands -So we the Party of Harris , of Warren , of Beto & etc. (5)>>Sen. Kamala Harris . As predicted, Ms. Harris is campaigning on the color of her skin while avoiding the content of her character. She attempted to play the Dem 'special victim card', but the post-debate scrutiny reveals a girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and she certainly isn't the 'Rosa Parks of the West', as she would like to have us believe. California Sen. Kamala Harris got into a testy exchange with former Vice President Joe Biden at the first Democratic presidential debate on Thursday over racial issues.“You know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day and that little girl was me,” Harris told Biden.She repeated the line later in her exchange after accusing Biden of being opposed to busing in America.“I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California public schools almost two decades after Brown v. Board of Education,” she noted. But Harris’s story of integration is more complex than she made it out to be.While it’s true she was among the second class of students at Thousand Oaks
Elementary School to participate in a fully integrated busing program, she was far from the first black child to attend the school.Data from the Berkeley Unified School District shows the school had 15 black students in 1963 — a year before Harris was born. They represented 3% of the total elementary school student body, while other schools in the district had a black population as high as 97%. (6)>>Joe Biden. Joe Biden refused calls to apologize for saying that the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed. Biden opposed busing more than four decades ago as a battle raged across the country -- and in Congress -- over sending white students to majority-black schools and black students to majority-white schools often far away from their own neighborhoods. Biden forcefully opposed the government's role in trying to integrate schools, saying he favored desegregation, but believed busing did not achieve equal opportunity. Biden who earlier this month fondly recalled collaborating with two segregationist senators during his Senate career. For most of the next four decades, Biden has become known as a champion of civil rights legislation like the expansion of the Voting Rights Act and changes to the Fair Housing Act. But he has rarely explained his views surrounding busing.The firestorm is quickly becoming one of the most intense disputes of the Democratic presidential primary, underscoring the hazards for Biden as he tries to turn his decades of Washington experience into an advantage. Instead, he’s infuriating Democrats who say he’s out of step with the diverse party of the 21st century and potentially undermining his argument that he’s the most electable candidate in the race.(7)>>giving free healthcare to undocumented . A Washington Examiner editorial noted, “California wants to look after its people, so it keeps expanding its social safety net. It also wants to welcome all comers and so embraces illegal immigrants and protects them in sanctuary cities. To see how this is working out, visit Skid Row in L.A. or neighborhoods in San Francisco or elsewhere where homeless camps are spreading. … Just as California lacks enough homes to house its inhabitants, so it also lacks enough doctors to care for them. The additional budget bloat on health care will worsen that shortage.”California is on the verge of becoming the first state in the country to give free health care to adult illegal immigrants. Using the state Medi-Cal program, which offers free or low-cost health coverage for those with limited incomes, the state estimates this will provide free health care to what they believe is 100,000 illegal immigrants between the ages of 19 and 25 years old.And how will state officials pay for this? They will be instituting their own state-based individual mandate, slapping an extra tax or fine on Californians who do not have health insurance.
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