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| Is Buttigieg really a step down as speaker... |
Former
Vice President Joe Biden was supposed to do the honors, which had some partisans
speculating how this could be the beginning of his own dreams of running for
president come 2020. It was stirring up significant response.
BUT
THEN BIDEN became ill, and had to cancel. Which led to the mayor of South Bend,
Ind., being called upon to do the keynote speaker duties. A Hoosier? In Illinois!
Of
course, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg isn’t your standard issue municipal
official of absolutely no significance beyond the boundaries of his particular
city.
Buttigieg
is among the few politicos in this country who is open about his sexual
orientation. In fact, his marriage earlier this year to long-time partner
Chasten Glezman warranted a write-up in the New York Times – usually an honor
reserved for the old money elite; who all-too-often are amongst the Republican
ranks.
Albeit
the types of Republicans who find themselves repulsed by the vulgar behavior of
our current president.
SO
PERHAPS BUTTIGIEG is appropo to speak to a rally meant to get Democrats in
Illinois all riled up enough to care about voting come the Nov. 6 Election Day
and in election cycles of the future.
For
Buttigieg, who has been mayor of the city many of us think of merely as the
home of the University of Notre Dame (even though the school technically is in
the nearby municipality of Notre Dame, Ind.) since 2012, is a name that often
gets thrown into the mix of people who may be challenging Donald Trump’s 2020
re-election. Barack Obama himself has included Buttigieg as a part of the "future" of the Democratic Party.
Always
with the addition of a sentence saying Buttigieg would be the “first openly-gay
U.S. president, if elected.”
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| … compared to Biden, who may be too old |
I’m
sure those who attend the Democratic brunch will try to claim they’re partaking
in history by witnessing the event. While I’m sure those attending the state
fair proper will go out of their way to ignore anything Buttigieg has to say,
preferring to focus attention on the Butter Cow.
I
COULDN’T HELP but notice one person who bothered to post a link on Facebook to
the Buttigieg wedding story as a way of letting people know just what kind of
person Democrats were using to speak at their big rally.
Even
though the part I find ironic is that we’ll be hearing from a Hoosier; a species
of Midwesterners who oft like to think they’re somehow going to get all of
Illinois’ assets to move east across State Line Road.
Now,
we’re going to be asked to cheer for one of those people, who can’t even seem
to agree on an explanation of why they’re called “Hoosiers” to begin with.
But
it could make for an interesting Thursday in Springfield, particularly compared
with the Governor’s Day activities that occurred at the Illinois State
Fairgrounds on Wednesday.
WATCHING
GOV. BRUCE Rauner try to appear to be everyman at a time when many of the rank-and-file
partisans of the Republican Party are eager to dump his keister (while also
trying to figure out a way of keeping Democratic gubernatorial nominee J.B.
Pritzker from prevailing) wasn’t anywhere near as amusing as one might think it
is.
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| Buttigieg will offend those who like Age of Trump |
Besides,
it kind of fit in with a Chicago Tribune story published Wednesday about the
Tuesday primaries held in several other states.
Ones
in which Vermont Democrats picked a transgender person to run for governor,
Minnesota Dems chose a woman who is of Somali ethnic origins to run for
Congress, while Connecticut nominated a black woman to go to D.C. on their
behalf. Diversity all dominant.
Compared
to Republicans, who managed to nominate several people fully in line with Donald
Trump, including in Minnesota, where Tim Pawlenty’s desire for a political
comeback failed – and he’s now the man who once dreamed of being President of
the United States, only to become yet another casualty of the Age of Trump.
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