...that he's been able to jump that much, that quickly. I was one of the people who figured that the mayor of South Bend would be the absolute last person that would be able to do that among this crowded field. But the fact that he has shows just what a great candidate he is and what a good guy he is.

Let's keep this Mayor Pete momentum rolling!

saying she stood for nothing but just "attacking trump", as far as I am concerned he either wasn't paying attention to what the Democratic nominee was saying, or just wants to make headlines to attract the Hillary haters.

Buttigieg won't be one of the nominees I will be considering in the primaries

Link to tweet

How much time did we spend talking about how Trump sucks and obsessing over every tweet?

Buttigieg misquoted, or did I misread what he actually said. I am not being facetious with that question

Regardless, if he is our nominee, I will back him 100%

On EDIT:

I see your point, the press misrepresented the point he was making. I got it.


Thanks

And I am sorry if I came on a little strong, too much coffee, eeeek

obviously his message is getting through based on the recent polls


Thanks

I am going to leave my original post since it will hopefully lead to others like me who are misinformed getting the facts correct from the respones

and we spent too much time talking about him. Trump was throwing bombs day after day and Hillary was reported when she addressed it. The substantive message, what her presidency would mean for the nation got drowned out. That’s as I remember it.

He's very good at messaging. O'Rourke is good too.

Buttigieg did not say Hillary did anything wrong. He said WE did.

This is exactly what the media does: they find the most inflammatory pull quote from a substantive interview, take it out of context, and turn that into the story.

I will say this: it's the media--and then posts like this that amplify the media's spin--that control what message the public ultimately hears. It's very, very hard for the candidate to have control over the message. And that's why I don't think he is blaming Clinton or saying she didn't stand for anything--and why so many of us are urging you to look more closely at Buttigieg's intent.

Saying things like "basket of deplrables" didn't help her.

Against an opponent like Trump, backtracking is treated as a sign of weakness. He used it to fire up his base. When she first said it, it fired up her base. But then she dropped it rather than use it to fire us up further.

Please note: This is not a criticism of Hillary. She did what most politicians would do. She did the normal thing. But you can't act normally against Trump.

Which isn't surprising coming from Chris Cillizza. Cillizza, btw, goes on (in the link you posted) to add his two cents in about Sec Clinton, which goes way beyond anything Buttigieg said, and shows his (Cillizza's) mindset and why he would latch onto that one quote:

also I’m With Her was from the campaign itself and was fully pushed by them


The Story Behind “I’m With Her”
And three other iconic campaign designs from the Hillary Clinton campaign.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90109190/the-story-behind-im-with-her


At an event in March put on by the New York chapter of the professional design association AIGA and the design team for the Hillary Clinton Campaign, graphic designer Ida Woldemichael opened her speech with a bang. “So you’ve all heard the phrase, ‘I’m With Her,’ yes?” she asked, and then paused. The crowd’s strong applause seemed to suggest the answer was yes. “I wrote that,” she responded simply.

It wasn’t a humble brag—the story that proceeded that statement, about how Woldemichael came up with “I’m With Her,” illustrated the way that setting up a branding system for the campaign allowed for deliberate design decisions to be made even in the most harried of scenarios. “I’m With Her” went from Woldemichael’s sketchbook to a bumper sticker in a matter of days.


[Image: courtesy Hillary for America]

Yes, the phrase “I’m With Her” was invented by a designer one random morning in the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters. It has since come out of so many mouths, been used in so many articles and hashtags, and been scrawled on so many signs–and is generally so entrenched in our rhetoric about Hillary Clinton now–it was almost a surprise that it had any origin story at all.

Of course it does—all things do. And while the team of designers on the campaign couldn’t have predicted it would take off to quite the degree it did, that lack of clear origin, or campaign ownership, was in some ways deliberate. Woldemichael described the team’s strategy for “un-designing” certain campaign graphics so that supporters could fill them with their own meaning, in turn making them more likely to go viral. “Our goal was not to be cool,” she said at the event. “It was to be accessible and even own-able.”

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I posted a reply, then saw that you had replied as I was searching for and listening to the Breakfast Club interview. So well put and well-sourced.

tried to cherry-pick and slag off Pete over the same thing

I did go on to make another reply directly about the Chris Cillizza article, which was about The Breakfast Club interview

He did not say "she stood for nothing but just attacking Trump." He said we (Democrats) spent too much time talking about Trump, thinking that if people realized how bad Trump is they wouldn't vote for him. He was talking about what we (Democrats generally, not Clinton specifically) emphasized in messaging. In no way did he badmouth Clinton or her platform. He goes on to say almost in the next breath that the Democratic agenda is the right agenda.

Yes, he did say, in the midst of this, that "our whole message was don't vote for him because he's terrible." And in isolation, it is easy to conclude from that snip that he was slamming Clinton for not standing for anything. But I think that conclusion, based on a sentence of a freewheeling, unrehearsed conversation, is unfair to Buttigieg.

You can listen for yourself. The relevant passage begins at 5.24.

Thanks. You and I have both been here a long time, and I know your intent wasn't to misrepresent anything.

And thought the Clinton campaign was short on message.

So who is propagating misinformation?

It doesn't matter to me if he's gay or straight, Black or White...what can a candidate do to help hard working Americans that were not born with a silver spoon in his mouth?

More links to stories and video!

Thanks to the Pete-enthusiasts and others for providing great links!

He has room to grow

I think he’ll continue to rise in the polls. He is in to to win it.

but Pete is truly a rising star and right at the top of my list. Intelligent, charismatic and intelligent... No doubt he is a fast riser!!!