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In reply to the discussion: Andrew Yang Is Running For President In The Democratic Party [View all]Bleacher Creature
(11,264 posts)12. Why are we so eager to turn the country over to amateurs.
We literally had the most qualified and experienced Presidential candidate in the history of the country, and we decided to obsess about her emails and criticize the way she laughed.
This needs to stop.
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I did. What's the problem for you? I don't expect a dissertation, just a one-liner.
ancianita
Mar 2018
#4
It'd be interesting to have some genuinely fresh ideas about our country debated in 2020...
First Speaker
Mar 2018
#3
... posted The Real Andrew Yang 5X's here but DU or google force me to the Chinese minister.
ancianita
Mar 2018
#8
I link the American Andrew Yang Wikipedia page, but DU won't link it. Don't know why. Sorry.
ancianita
Mar 2018
#9
If anyone wants to see him on Wikipedia, he is there. Lukewarm response here can mean anything.
ancianita
Mar 2018
#11
Can't ever get the perfect candidate, can we. Find one thing wrong and out the window, eh?
ancianita
Mar 2018
#16
Why's Clinton got to be in this. I was a Clinton backer, too. So what. My "dissertation" comment
ancianita
Mar 2018
#22
I didn't say that's what you did. I don't "avoid comments." I say I'd like more open perspectives,
ancianita
Mar 2018
#24
What are you talking about. You sound like those who doubted Obama when he showed up.
ancianita
Mar 2018
#13
obama had a history of elected office responsible to voters when he showed up nt
msongs
Mar 2018
#14
Obama held elected office for almost 12 years before his inauguration.
Bleacher Creature
Mar 2018
#28
Obama had experience. And I agree about amateurs. It is not negativity to want to pick a
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#35
Now is the time to imagine a national future. Now is not the time to cynically dismiss newcomers.
ancianita
Mar 2018
#17
Newcomes need to start with grassroots...Obama was a sitting Senator with years of experience in
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#36
I have no one in mind. I don't know anyone who is an effective legislature these days.
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#33