2016 Postmortem

bklyncowgirl

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11. An interesting take. Where are all our giants indeed.

Mon Mar 7, 2016, 06:19 AM

Mar 2016

The truth is our "giants" these days are either elderly, retired or discouraged.

Jerry Brown, our most accomplished big state governor still qualifies as a giant and would have made a great candidate but chose not to run due to age and health issues--fair enough the guy's pushing eighty. Joe Biden the same. Al Gore is pretty much retired from politics and is not interested--can't say I blame him. John Kerry seems happy in his current job--he really was born to be Secretary of State. Elizabeth Warren opted out. As for our other big state governors Andrew Cuomo is competent but about as loveable as the Zika virus and is pretty much mired in the cesspool that is New York politics.

There's some young talent in the party but those who have right combination of charisma, accomplishment and ambition seem to be distinctly lacking.

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A history of Democratic Primaries since I've been awake. And why I'm worried. [View all] Bucky Mar 2016 OP

The DLC and a desire to share in the lobbyist money the Republicans were getting happened to our merrily Mar 2016 #1

I appreciate your responding Bucky Mar 2016 #2

I think the DLC deliberately obscured messaging. Al From hinted at that in his book. merrily Mar 2016 #3

P.S. I could not disagree with you more about Hillary and Bernie. merrily Mar 2016 #4

I read the "zero fucks" as meaning he wasn't in the Democratic Party officially and those who were, RiverLover Mar 2016 #7

Who is pulling the strings? Powerful people in the party. Is someone pulling *their* strings, in merrily Mar 2016 #8

Ditto, merrily!! RiverLover Mar 2016 #9

It's not too hard to see who is pulling the strings. CdnExtraNational Mar 2016 #13

Zactly! Duppers Mar 2016 #12

"Zero fucks to give" is an expression. He's not beholden to anyone and he obviously was not Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #14

Yes, RiverLover read me right on "zero fucks" Bucky Mar 2016 #18

The only thing I'd disagree with you about on that history was on Jesse Jackson's 1988 showing. Ken Burch Mar 2016 #5

Interesting take. PatrickforO Mar 2016 #6

kick'n'Rec (nt) pat_k Mar 2016 #10

An interesting take. Where are all our giants indeed. bklyncowgirl Mar 2016 #11

Good piece, Bucky. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #15

It is hard to find Gwhittey Mar 2016 #16

I was enthralled with Teddy Kennedy (1980) TBF Mar 2016 #17

I wanna add something that's been bothering me about the phrase Democratic Wing. Bucky Mar 2016 #19