(Scribbled upon the eve of Saturday the 13th April)
Out of the starting blocks in something of an unprecedented canter, Saturday evening's Newshub News gave us a sneak preview the other night of the person to watch as the 2020 US Democratic Party presidential selection draws inexorably closer...
...and so once again proved why it's the TV channel to watch to be better, more deeply informed as to some of the more interesting tidbits of news emanating out of who knows where on especially (post-Sabbath) weekend nights...
What can I say, even recall at this stage - least of all the fellow's name, especially surname - except to say that in looks, in attitude, in open and forthright approach and manner...this particular dude has exactly what it takes to take on both the Democratic Party's 2020 nomination and Donald J Trump.
Yes, the Kennedy mystique has at long last been revived, rediscovered and reclaimed...and by a most unlikely individual and in a most unlikely place and corner of politicsville, USA to boot...
Charisma befitting that star of American Democratic Party politics, the shot-down-in-his-prime erstwhile presidential hopeful, Bobby (as in Senator Robert F) Kennedy, that in normal circumstances could not but propel this South Bend, Indiana mayor inexorably onwards and upwards and ultimately into America's and the world's most powerful position.
I kid you not. What we saw portrayed is someone quite comfortable and at home in his own skin - the United States' "first openly gay presidential candidate" who's well prepared to 'take it to' his evangelical 'compatriots' without ill-will or rancour, yet quietly and confidently assert his own conviction that God made him thus and so...and that He don't make no junk...
Although such a bountiful 'bouquet' from an old-fashioned conservative such as myself - who moreover has no time for the legalization of same-sex marriages (although even former kiwi Attorney-General Chris(topher) Finlayson - the then Key Government's only (openly) homosexual minister, apparently - himself, like many gay folk evidently, was quite opposed to that (2013?) law) - might come as a huge surprise to any regular reader of this (or my other) blogsite...
my basic thesis is and has ever been: give due credit where credit is due. Or as my davidedwinisms blogsite motto has it, 'bestowing bouquets and brickbats with fear of and favour toward none'.
Moreover having such a problematic, hard to pronounce let alone spell properly, sort of a name - an affliction Yours Truly has also long been saddled and handicapped with - is actually more of a blessing-in-disguise...counterintuitively giving him both the instant 'name recognition' that any serious presidential wannabe desperately desires and needs...plus - which is an awfully misunderestimated (as a former President might express it) asset in campaigning - providing instant joke status - what with his 'Mr Bean'-ish joker face to match (take a bow, Ukraine's new comedian-wannabe president!) - and thus and so the ready ability to crack through the usual 'break-through' difficulties such a newcomer to national (US) politics would inevitably face as he goes forward...
Whilst being an 'all-star' American ex-military man/hero certainly cannot hurt his chances in gun-toting and arguably war-mongering America...alongside the fact that, according to otherwise supportive 'Democracy Now', he's fairly pro-Israel; and so evidently not part and parcel of the
increasingly influential, and potentially worrisome/concerning Israel divestment movement...
Being an openly gay candidate from a heartland American evangelical state (*Indiana) and with the youth and 'kiddie' good looks some would die for...
I'm sad to say, in this day and age of 'tolerance' and 'breaking down of barriers', 'ageism' is still - indeed more than ever before, quite arguably - 'alive and kicking'...and so my own two favourites, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (with Biden as Sanders' Veep, or perhaps via-versa), appear likely to be collateral damage to that societal trend of all ages being equal, but some being well and truly more equal than others...
Yes, as I say, my money - as inconsiderable as it may well be! - is now well and truly upon this guy who has emerged from pretty much nowhere (apologies to all 'Hoosiers' reading this)...and has built up in no time a head of steam likely to propel him to the top of the Democratic Party pack of hopefuls...
...although they also do say that some 'stars' shine brilliantly at the outset, and make a whole lot of noise and pizzazz, and then like their astronomical namesake, the shooting star, just as quickly fade away again...
But for the present moment I'm rooting for this fellow with the small-town roots who's certainly got what it takes...in terms of the Camelot star power and appeal...and so I reckon's the person to watch...
...if I could only remember his name, both Christian and surname...
*Incidentally its near neighbour, Minnesota - my Mum's home state - recently saw, alongside Indiana, the sad decease of two of the most 'salt of the earth', true-blue, real-deal Christians (or, more pertinently, 'Christ-followers') myself and my siblings here in God's Own ever had the privilege and honour to meet and visit with; cousins of my mother's, 'brethren' folk who Abe Lincoln himself would've been proud to have known.
Out of the starting blocks in something of an unprecedented canter, Saturday evening's Newshub News gave us a sneak preview the other night of the person to watch as the 2020 US Democratic Party presidential selection draws inexorably closer...
...and so once again proved why it's the TV channel to watch to be better, more deeply informed as to some of the more interesting tidbits of news emanating out of who knows where on especially (post-Sabbath) weekend nights...
What can I say, even recall at this stage - least of all the fellow's name, especially surname - except to say that in looks, in attitude, in open and forthright approach and manner...this particular dude has exactly what it takes to take on both the Democratic Party's 2020 nomination and Donald J Trump.
Yes, the Kennedy mystique has at long last been revived, rediscovered and reclaimed...and by a most unlikely individual and in a most unlikely place and corner of politicsville, USA to boot...
Charisma befitting that star of American Democratic Party politics, the shot-down-in-his-prime erstwhile presidential hopeful, Bobby (as in Senator Robert F) Kennedy, that in normal circumstances could not but propel this South Bend, Indiana mayor inexorably onwards and upwards and ultimately into America's and the world's most powerful position.
I kid you not. What we saw portrayed is someone quite comfortable and at home in his own skin - the United States' "first openly gay presidential candidate" who's well prepared to 'take it to' his evangelical 'compatriots' without ill-will or rancour, yet quietly and confidently assert his own conviction that God made him thus and so...and that He don't make no junk...
Although such a bountiful 'bouquet' from an old-fashioned conservative such as myself - who moreover has no time for the legalization of same-sex marriages (although even former kiwi Attorney-General Chris(topher) Finlayson - the then Key Government's only (openly) homosexual minister, apparently - himself, like many gay folk evidently, was quite opposed to that (2013?) law) - might come as a huge surprise to any regular reader of this (or my other) blogsite...
my basic thesis is and has ever been: give due credit where credit is due. Or as my davidedwinisms blogsite motto has it, 'bestowing bouquets and brickbats with fear of and favour toward none'.
Moreover having such a problematic, hard to pronounce let alone spell properly, sort of a name - an affliction Yours Truly has also long been saddled and handicapped with - is actually more of a blessing-in-disguise...counterintuitively giving him both the instant 'name recognition' that any serious presidential wannabe desperately desires and needs...plus - which is an awfully misunderestimated (as a former President might express it) asset in campaigning - providing instant joke status - what with his 'Mr Bean'-ish joker face to match (take a bow, Ukraine's new comedian-wannabe president!) - and thus and so the ready ability to crack through the usual 'break-through' difficulties such a newcomer to national (US) politics would inevitably face as he goes forward...
Whilst being an 'all-star' American ex-military man/hero certainly cannot hurt his chances in gun-toting and arguably war-mongering America...alongside the fact that, according to otherwise supportive 'Democracy Now', he's fairly pro-Israel; and so evidently not part and parcel of the
increasingly influential, and potentially worrisome/concerning Israel divestment movement...
Being an openly gay candidate from a heartland American evangelical state (*Indiana) and with the youth and 'kiddie' good looks some would die for...
I'm sad to say, in this day and age of 'tolerance' and 'breaking down of barriers', 'ageism' is still - indeed more than ever before, quite arguably - 'alive and kicking'...and so my own two favourites, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (with Biden as Sanders' Veep, or perhaps via-versa), appear likely to be collateral damage to that societal trend of all ages being equal, but some being well and truly more equal than others...
Yes, as I say, my money - as inconsiderable as it may well be! - is now well and truly upon this guy who has emerged from pretty much nowhere (apologies to all 'Hoosiers' reading this)...and has built up in no time a head of steam likely to propel him to the top of the Democratic Party pack of hopefuls...
...although they also do say that some 'stars' shine brilliantly at the outset, and make a whole lot of noise and pizzazz, and then like their astronomical namesake, the shooting star, just as quickly fade away again...
But for the present moment I'm rooting for this fellow with the small-town roots who's certainly got what it takes...in terms of the Camelot star power and appeal...and so I reckon's the person to watch...
...if I could only remember his name, both Christian and surname...
*Incidentally its near neighbour, Minnesota - my Mum's home state - recently saw, alongside Indiana, the sad decease of two of the most 'salt of the earth', true-blue, real-deal Christians (or, more pertinently, 'Christ-followers') myself and my siblings here in God's Own ever had the privilege and honour to meet and visit with; cousins of my mother's, 'brethren' folk who Abe Lincoln himself would've been proud to have known.
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