The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Can’t really blame you for that. He was seemingly a Bernie Sanders type for a lot of younger people tired of the Bush regime. It was like lightning in a bottle for him. You’ve got a younger, dark-skinned candidate with real charisma and an apparent passion for change going up against another old, white republican in John McCain.
He would not have been as successful coming off of a Gore presidency.
Can’t really blame you for that. He was seemingly a Bernie Sanders type for a lot of younger people tired of the Bush regime. It was like lightning in a bottle for him. You’ve got a younger, dark-skinned candidate with real charisma and an apparent passion for change going up against another old, white republican in John McCain.
He would not have been as successful coming off of a Gore presidency.
Unfortunately - even back then I was old enough to know better. In any case - by early 2011 I had figured out who and what he really was.
Ditching the public option and keeping John Bolton proved he was a fraud