Pete Buttigieg: Nice thing to wake up to

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Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg 4h4 hours ago
Well this is a nice thing to wake up to: “The best political autobiography since Barack Obama”



Guardian: Shortest Way Home review: Pete Buttigieg as president in waiting
The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana has written the best political autobiography since Barack Obama
Sun 17 Mar 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/17/shortest-way-home-review-pete-buttigieg-president

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1. He is an impressive young man.

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2. Thanks, Bigtree.

I just ordered it.

It's good to see a DUer posting something positive about someone who isn't their current candidate of choice. (Pete is my current choice, but there are a half dozen candidates I could see myself voting for in the primary.)

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3. 'Imagine waking up on 4 November 2020 to discover America has elected

a man whose knowledge ranges from the Puritan origins of the phrase “city on the hill” to the details of how to modernize sewers with wi-fi connected sensors.

Imagine that this man is also an Afghanistan veteran who understands that “truly grasping and defeating the logic of suicide terrorism” was beyond the capacity of Congress or the Bush administration after 9/11; a student who connected the dots in high school between the values of his theology class and those of Amnesty International; a graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes scholar who got a first at Oxford; the mayor of a small midwestern city who managed to revitalize it in less than eight years; someone who has never slept with a porn star, and who married the very first person he fell in love with.

And imagine this is someone whose spouse just happens to be a man – which. as Stephen Colbert pointed out on The Late Show, is “only the third thing” you learn about this presidential candidate.

This is part of the life story Peter Buttigieg tells in his beautiful new book, Shortest Way Home, the best American political autobiography since Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father.

Buttigieg is the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Brimming with midwestern authenticity, he captured a large portion of CNN’s audience earlier this month in his first nationally televised town hall. That put him comfortably over the Democratic National Committee’s threshold of 65,000 individual donors which governs qualification for the forthcoming debates.

The son of a Notre Dame professor whose family hails from Malta, Buttigieg’s is a classic American success story. It begins with acceptance at Harvard, followed by his winning the John F Kennedy Presidential Library’s annual Profile In Courage Award for a high-school essay. . .

Buttigieg sees 9/11 as the turning point for his generation, when it became clear “irony and apathy wouldn’t dominate our years after all”. Imagine, then, a president who can write a paragraph like this:

We see how often war and terrorism are driven by the dynamics of globalization, the distribution of wealth and the consequences of technology. Like laws of physics, these forces were animating our affairs all along – which should have been no surprise to people from a place like South Bend, a city wrestling such forces long before newspapers gave us terms like ‘globalization’ and ‘rust belt’.'>>>

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/17/shortest-way-home-review-pete-buttigieg-president

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4. Pete raised enough money to be included in the Democratic presidential debates.

I can't wait to hear what he has to say.

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5. This guy is going to be a great President one day! nt