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3. This is an unique description...first time I have heard of a candidate being accused of getting...
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 07:49 PM
Mar 2019

too close to voters. What in the world is Politico thinking? I would think we all crave the opposite, being that there are 325 million of us, and seeing a candidate up close and personal is an unique, once in a lifetime experience. Don't knock it, Politico.

I remember as a kid going to Alton Elementary School in Independence MO. No big deal.

What the big deal was that Harry S. Truman and his wife Bessie lived right across the street. As a kid, I got to see so many candidates in person, since of course, the candidates coming to see Harry would love all of the kids out there too (the school was literally across the street from his house). An experience of a lifetime.

Also, in STLMO, we got to see a few candidates in Downtown STLMO. Where I live at now (Tower Grove Park neighborhood) is where representative (democratic) Dick Gephardt lived, one of the great representatives before he retired. We saw presidential candidates too because of Dick G. (come to visit him).

The unique and very satisfying experience of seeing a candidate up close and personal is something that you can't copy or give to someone else. You have to be there. I was lucky. Now, I'm too old to mess around with, but I don't mind giving up the space for others to have the same experiences I was lucky to have.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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