
^^also both Whitmer and Harris were children of divorce, who knows how that affected them in their teens. |
I was today years old when I found out I’m unimpressive because I graduated from Michigan State. |
Same here. |
Well you knew you didn't attend Ivy League schools, how "impressive" is judged on DCUM, but who cares? |
Won't it be a bit of a letdown if they've strung it out and then it ends up being Kamala Harris after all? They could have named her long ago and gotten to work on campaigning. |
This is why I don’t think itll be her. I bet itll be Rice or Whitmer |
Maxine Waters saying that it's down to Rice or Harris. |
She's just quoting what's been reported, has no inside intel. |
Either could explain the delay. Rice's professional record and finances would take a while to examine thoroughly, plus they'll have to prepare responses for all the coming attacks. If it's Whitmer, there will be a lot of discussions with Clyburn et al in order to manage disappointment among Black constituencies. Progressives will also be very unhappy with both. |
The only way to manage a Whitmer announcement is to announce his cabinet as well, including several Black women. I still don't know that this would fly. Maybe it is a smoke screen as the prep a different choice under cover. |
Honestly, we need to reclaim the progressive label for liberalism - and a rejection of illiberalism. If “progressives” cannot get behind diverse and progress-oriented candidates like Whitmer and Rice because they fail some arbitrary purity test - they are not progressives. They maybe socialists, or leftists, or anarchists - but they are not liberals - and they are not progressives in any sense. |
How odd - Whitmer is a bright, diverse, talented, retail politician. Why the double standard? |
Idiotic identity politics. We've become a country of imbeciles. |
I don't think requesting a seat at the table when you're the backbone of the party, and handed the guy the nom when he was all but out of the running, is remotely imbecilic. |
Sure, because in your deluded mind, identity politics is a new phenomenon. |