- Buttigieg effective Use of Power of his Word — 9 (Simply by vaulting to the top of a crowded field Buttigieg strong at bringing forth what he wants using his word; He used it to become mayor, to become a Rhodes Scholar as well)
- Buttigieg potential use of his word to win the nomination and presidency — 8 (I think his command of the word, and his thirst for winning and accolades could carry him to the nomination and to the presidency. He is better suited to beat the incumbent president on his own terms than many).
- Buttigieg likelihood of governing based on a World that Works for Everyone upon assuming presidency — 5 (based on the Robinson article’s close reading of his own Memoir and his record as mayor).
- Buttigieg grounding his Word in love, integrity, diversity and inclusion, accountability, caring–7 He does talk like his shared values include diversity and inclusion, accountability, love, compassion, caring and integrity.
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For More on this see: Comparison of 2020 Presidential Candidates
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Pete Buttigieg’s candidacy reminds me so much of Bill Clinton’s–which terrifies me. Every time I ever listen to Bill Clinton speak, I love him. Every time I watched him govern, I hated him. If I’m honest, I did not want to write this piece, because to evaluate Mayor Pete’s use of the Power of the Word, I knew I would have to listen to him speak. And, seeing the growing support for this unlikely candidate, I feared I would be sucked in by his words and presence, just as I am by President Clinton’s. I didn’t want to forget Nathan Robinson’s close reading of Pete Buttigieg’s political memoir, Shortest Way Home. In it, Robinson really looks at what Pete Buttigieg is most proud of: walking by picketing low wage workers at Harvard on his way to a policy forum, destroying 1000 homes and replacing good higher paying jobs with robots or computers in South Bend, and choosing to work for a large corporate consulting firm in his first job post Rhodes Scholar are what “Mayor Pete” brags about in his book.
“These racial inequities didn’t just happen, they’re not an accident. They are in many cases the consequences of policies. Which means we have to have not just non racist policies but anti racist policies. I may not be able to convince every voter to be for me but at the very least I need to make sure that every voter out there knows that I’m for them.” on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show
“The biggest thing we need to do for education is have a Secretary of Education who is actually for public education” (also on The Daily Show)
I think its defensible to lose, at least temporarily, some rights of citizenship, when you’re convicted of a serious crime. At the same time, I’m mindful that this only makes sense if we have a fair justice system where the only factor for likeliness of incarceration is whether you’ve committed the crime. And that’s actually not what we have now. Men of color, particularly African American men, are far more likely to be incarcerated than any other demographic so what appears to be a neutral policy is actually not neutral at all. So I’m thinking about whether that affects my position.