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Democratic Primaries

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IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 10:43 PM Feb 2020

One nice thing about each of the remaining democratic candidates. [View all]

I thought I would mention a nice thing about each of the remaining democratic candidates. This is not the best, most important and certainly not the only good thing about each of them. Just a random positive fact about each.

Joe Biden - In high school, he was a standout halfback/wide receiver on the high school football team; he helped lead a perennially losing team to an undefeated season in his senior year. He played on the baseball team as well.

Michael Bloomberg - He has given more than $3.3 billion to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater, over his lifetime. His first contribution, in 1965, had been $5. He made his first $1 million commitment to JHU in 1984, and subsequently became the first individual to exceed $1 billion in lifetime donations to a single U.S. institution of higher education.

Pete Buttigieg - He was valedictorian of the class of 2000 at St. Joseph High School in South Bend. That year, he won first prize in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's Profiles in Courage essay contest.

Tulsi Gabbard - She is a recipient of the Combat Medical Badge and the Meritorious Service Medal. She continues to serve as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard.

Amy Klobuchar - In 2013, she received an award for her leadership in the fight to prevent sexual assault in the military at a national summit hosted by the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN)

Bernie Sanders - In December 1987, during his tenure as mayor of Burlington, he recorded a folk album, We Shall Overcome, with 30 Vermont musicians. As he was not a skilled singer, he performed his vocals in a talking blues style.

Tom Steyer - He received Equality California's 2015 Humanitarian Award "for his work advancing progressive causes that benefit the LGBT community."

Elizabeth Warren - In 2009, she became the first professor in Harvard's history to win the law school's Sacks–Freund Teaching Award for a second time.

Please feel free to add any other positive things about your chosen candidate or any of the other democratic primary candidates.

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