South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg took issue with Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “my way or the highway” politics at Friday’s debate — but a 20-year-old essay written by Buttigieg had nothing but praise for the self-described socialist.
In the early moments of the ABC-hosted debate in New Hampshire, Buttigieg warned against “my way or the highway politics” and when moderator George Stephanopoulos asked whether he was referring to Sanders, he said that he was.
Just two decades earlier, however, Buttigieg won the John F. Kennedy “Profiles in Courage” essay contest with a piece lauding Sanders — both for his willingness to take unpopular stands and his ability to work across the aisle.
Buttigieg began by praising the Vermont senator for his fearlessness with regard to claiming the name “socialist”:
Sanders’ courage is evident in the first word he uses to describe himself: ‘Socialist’. In a country where Communism is still the dirtiest of ideological dirty words, in a climate where even liberalism is considered radical, and Socialism is immediately and perhaps willfully confused with Communism, a politician dares to call himself a socialist? He does indeed. Here is someone who has ‘looked into his own soul/ and expressed an ideology, the endorsement of which, in today’s political atmosphere, is analogous to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Even though he has lived through a time in which an admitted socialist could not act in a film, let alone hold a Congressional seat, Sanders is not afraid to be candid about his political persuasion.
Buttigieg went on to note Sanders’ early acceptance of same sex marriage, his willingness to challenge the NRA and his independently organized drug-purchasing trips to Canada that were intended to draw attention to the rising cost of prescription drugs — all issues that Sanders still prides himself on 20 years later.
Buttigieg then argued that simply taking a principled stand, while courageous, was not the full picture of Sanders. It was his ability to bring both sides together, Buttigieg explained, that truly made him a...
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Buttplug's Muslim daddy had an FBI file about 300 pages thick. During the cold war he was one of those individuals who would have met with a nasty accident had war broken out. After all it took something to be a hard core Stalinist during WW2. Buttplug followed in daddy's footsteps, most red diaper babies do.
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