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Setting a Precedent - The Rise of Pete Buttigieg


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He’s the Obama-style boy-from-nowhere with charisma and the potential to become the first openly gay president of the United States Of America. But who is Pete Buttigieg?  Hollywood’s most powerful and fabulous homos are mobilised; the eyes of the LGBTIQ+ world are upon him; and Trump-loving, right-wing TV network Fox News is shitting its pants.  This is the impact of Pete Buttigieg (pronounced boot-edge-edge): a handsome, young gay man from a little-known mid-Western state who has announced he’s going to run for President of the United States Of America in 2020.  If he becomes the Democratic nominee, he’ll be standing against President Trump: a man revered by redneck, racist, white supremacist, misogynistic homophobes as a god, even while the rest of the world considers him somewhere on a sliding scale between clown and catastrophe. Buttigieg launched his presidential bid by directly butt-kicking everything that Trump stands for.  So far, it’s his charming, boy-next-door all-Americanness and erudite eloquence that has shone through. At just 37, his wise-head-on-young-shoulders made noises about real change for a new generation. The next generation.

 Change. Sound familiar? One of President Obama’s enduring campaign slogans was “change we can believe in”. The other was “yes, we can”. The last ten years have certainly changed the face of US politics. Obama was hotter than the average president and a generally decent guy. And he was the black. What’s more, the American electorate were smart enough to not be spooked by a surname sounding like Osama or the middle name Hussein or Donald Trump’s efforts to depict him as a scary Muslim and not even American.

 But has the road been paved for a minority citizen to become Commander-in-Chief? Is Buttigieg change we can believe in? Can a thirty-something gay man really say yes he can?  Witnessing Buttigieg’s candidacy develop has been electrifying. He’s a married man. He met high school teacher Chasten Gelzman via an app in 2015 and married him three years later. They have two dogs, Truman and Buddy. It’s all picture-perfect cute.

 His résumé reads like something you or I might invent to bag ourselves an out-of-reach job: he’s a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and a graduate of Harvard University; he has served as a lieutenant in the US Navy Reserve and took an unpaid, seven-month leave during his mayoral term to deploy to Afghanistan. He earned the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his counterterrorism work. He was elected Mayor of his hometown of South Bend, Indiana in 2011 aged just 29 and re-elected in 2015 with 80 percent of the vote, positively transforming both the local economy and its prospects in the process. He campaigned to ensure every resident of South Bend, “regardless of race, religion, gender or orientation” felt safe and included.

 He already has more years of government experience than Donald Trump, more years of executive government experience than Vice President Mike Pence, and more military experience than anybody to walk into the Oval Office since President George HW Bush.  If that wasn’t enough, Buttigieg can speak seven languages, play piano and guitar, and generally do everything that’s simultaneously irritating and admirable at the same time.  

He came out in his twenties, found closeted army life difficult, and wishes his fellow Americans would learn to trust and accept people from different backgrounds, such as gay men. It’s all sounded a bit vanilla, but then to the meaty stuff: how will a gay president exert moral authority in countries where it’s illegal to be gay?  Whether you want America to be the undisputed global headmaster or not is a different discussion, but Buttigieg’s response is intrinsically sound: he’s on a mission to make gay men more credible in the political arena, so that we are taken more seriously as human beings around the world; so that leaders like the Sultan Of Brunei or Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad Bin Salman or Russia’s Vladimir Putin would be confronted and condemned by a powerhouse homosexual.  And we haven’t even spoken about the fact that he’s a practicing Christian…

After Buttigieg’s town-hall address in April – a tradition where American politicians are granted a platform to reveal standpoints and views – CNN’s Anderson Cooper (himself a handsome, gay, married man) told viewers that Buttigieg is hot on character information but notably short on policy specifics. Indeed, even Buttigieg has said, “I think it’s important that we not drown people in minutiae before we’ve vindicated the values that animate our policies,” during his speech. One thing is clear: the road to the 3 November 2020 presidential election is going to be a rocky one, made all the more fascinating by Pete Buttigieg.

Article from DNA News and Features by Torsetn Hojer.

 

 

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Thanks for sharing, @Steve .

7 hours ago, Steve said:

But has the road been paved for a minority citizen to become Commander-in-Chief?

What are minority citizens? Perhaps at some point in the US election campaign the question will arise whether the presidential candidates are circumcised or uncircumcised. The latter would then also belong to a minority.

Isn't the current POTUS also a member of a minority? How many Americans have German grandparents and a mother born in Scotland? How many are married for the 3rd time - two times with a foreign-born woman? How many American voters are billionaires?

I don't care about the person. It is important to me what a politician stands for and whether this is compatible with my ideas and my morals.

Unfortunately, as a LPR I am not allowed to vote, but at this moment Pete Buttigieg would get my vote.

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Vogue magazine is featuring Mayor Pete in its June issue with a photograph by Ethan James Green. There is much that sets this image apart from all the others spreading like wildfire all over the Internet. It’s in black and white. There is no background. Buttigieg is sporting a 5-o’clock shadow. His face is in full profile, set at a 90-degree angle from his torso, and his expression is a determined, but non-threatening frown, as if being photographed by a glamor magazine is something to be endured (because the man’s got better things to do). Even so, the photo strays not too far from his squeaky clean persona. He dresses like a Mormon missionary – no jacket, a white button-down, dark slacks (more likely cotton than wool) and a conservative Brooks Brothers-type silk necktie. Another preppy lifestyle giveaway is the leather strap on his wristwatch (not metal). 
 
Buttigieg is so honest and sincere that it’s difficult to believe he’s a politician. He actually answers the question he is asked, without deflection, and stays on topic. If he doesn’t know the answer, he says so, with a promise to look into it. So thoroughly decent is Mayor Pete that no one could take seriously the recent smear attempt by far-right conspiracy theorist/fraudster Jacob Wohl, who offered cash (and a house, even) to a male college student if he would fabricate sexual assault charges against Buttigieg. Wohl’s light bulb must be pretty dim, since he apparently learned nothing from his similarly failed attempt to discredit Robert Mueller.Perhaps one of the bravest strategies of Mr. Buttigieg is his takedown of Pence’s hypocrisy on the matter of Christianity. Here we have a young gay man casting serious shade on a so-called paragon of the Christian right. Buttigieg is a self-declared practicing Catholic who does not embrace a “porn-star” involved occupant of the White House. Buttigieg suggests that of the three of them (himself, Pence and Trump), Pete has superior rights to the moral high road.


 

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I don't know much about the guy, apart from a somewhat unfortunate name  -  I saw an interview with him on CNN, and he seemed like a nice, honest person.

Ah, I also know from "The Daily Show" that he is - and I quote the man himself -"Maltese American, left handed, Episcopalian, gay war weteran, mayor, millenial" . And he speaks 7 languages. And plays the piano. And his husband (Chasten - honestly, my American friends, what sort of names do you give  your kids?) is a really sweet guy. BTW what will he be called? First Gentleman? First Husband?

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Honestly I'm not American, but I'm hoping that all goes well if he wins the bid for presidency.

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Gay people are acting as if Pete Buttigieg is the first gay person to run for President, and he's not.  I guess all of you forgot Fred Krager in 2012.

Speaking for myself, he doesn't get my vote.  It takes more than being gay for me to vote for you.  He's like every other politician; he only caters to the wealthy and famous white constituents, only in this case, it's the wealthy and famous gay white constituents.  The gay community consists of more than wealthy and famous white people and if Pete Buttigieg wants the gay community to rally behind him, then he needs to reach out to the entire community, not just the select and privileged few.

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