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The Onion just put another

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:43:20 +0000

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The Onion just put another stake in John Hickenlooper:

Weird Birthday Boy Blowing Out Candles Wishes For John Hickenlooper To Win Democratic Primary https://t.co/cw15UKSfWw pic.twitter.com/n7N3nvroBG
— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 25, 2019

CHRIS CHRISTIE STILL RUNNING

artappraiser — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:10:24 +0000

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CHRIS CHRISTIE STILL RUNNING AROUND, RINGING THE ALARM BELL ABOUT BIDEN

“He’s the one Dem candidate who appeals to the white working-class voters who handed the election to Trump—and could hand 2020 to Biden instead.”

@ Vanity Fair, April 24

James who? The Politicians

artappraiser — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 02:42:07 +0000

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James who? The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses”

By Kevin Dettmer @ NewYorker.com, April 23, 3:20 P.M.

[...] Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke have gone out of their way, in interviews and public events, to embrace the Irish master; Joe Biden has been name-dropping and crypto-quoting him for year. As a Joyce scholar, I have a Google alert for the author, and the notifications typically skew plagiaristic (offering term papers on, say, Joyce’s story “Araby”). But, during the past few weeks, I have been inundated with stories from Vulture, the Irish Times, the Washington Post, Vogue, and Esquire discussing the candidates’ positions on “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake.”

Buttigieg’s Joyceolatry comes across as the best informed and the most authentic. I’ve known how to spell (if not how to pronounce) “Buttigieg” for a long time, because Mayor Pete’s father, Joseph A. Buttigieg, was a literary scholar who wrote a book about Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Taking that volume down from my shelf the other day, I saw that Buttigieg writes in the preface that “our son Peter Paul has contributed an uncommon measure of patience and tolerance” to the writing of the book. It was published in 1987, when Pete was five—patience and tolerance were no small thing [....]

Edit to add: I was going to make a crack along the lines of "is this some kind of elite Irish Illuminati kind of thing?". However I took a moment and checked Wikipedia for Pete Buttigieg, I see I'd have to drop the Irish part: His father, an immigrant from Ħamrun, Malta, initially studied to be a Jesuit priest before immigrating to the United States and embarking on a secular career as professor of literature at The University of Notre Dame at South Bend.[12][13] The surname Buttigieg is Semitic; "alab (الآب)" meaning "father" in Arabic and "tiġieġ" meaning "poultry" in Maltese.[14]His mother was a professor at Notre Dame for 29 years.[15]

I'm even willing to hold my

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 03:48:00 +0000

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I'm even willing to hold my nose and vote Biden if it'll get us through this awful constitutional/societal crisis & prevent the GOP from taking tje White House. Even though I think Obama's "don't make waves" approach helped get us here (I don't think Hillary would have been so sanguine taking their shit, while Joe just wants to be nice middle-class Joe, pretty easy to buy off).

Though maybe Pete or someone else is a better safety choice - can't quite get going back to the 80's/90's.

Scoop: Biden has hired over a

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 03:25:55 +0000

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Scoop: Biden has hired over a dozen senior advisors from the Obama administration for his 2020 campaign. Many of them worked for team Clinton in ‘16 while others were key players in the 2018 congressional midterm elections. https://t.co/njKpc71Kr8
— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) April 19, 2019