re: #224 freetoken

He’s young.

His political homiletics are reminiscent of Barack Obama’s, down to the phrasing.

Because of the above, he comes off to me as someone really wanting people to like him.

Given, as you noted, the hat trick against him, that is understandable.

We need ideologues.

Let me repeat that: we need ideologues.

There are different kinds of politicians for different times and places. Some are the get-along types, some are the rabble-rousers.

I still prefer the FDR-Truman school of campaigning - hit the opponent where they need to be hit. Don’t go easy on the important issues.

Hmmm—thanks for answering. I thought he was hitting pretty hard, but maybe I’m too close to the campaign. Part of his approach tonight, I think, was because The State paper endorsed McMaster, saying they disagreed with many of his ideas, but because he’s older and experienced, he should win. (Oddly, they then endorsed Vincent Sheheen, the Dem running against Nikki Haley.)

His background is really interesting—he touched on it tonight, about the Orangeburg Massacre and his father going to prison. Happened earlier the same year as Kent State, although not nearly as many people know about it. (I had never heard of it until I met Bakari.)