Yo Wes Moore might be legit!

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Don't know if anyone's got a thread on him, but just heard him speaking on MSNBC. Dude sounds like he's got the gift to go far :leon:

He pulls this off he might get my ass back in Baltimore for once :mjlol:

EDIT: and before the Coli hoteps ask...:stopitslime:

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I read his book and he came off as an empty suit who has spent his entire life building his resume and doesn't understand issues of poverty with any depth at all.

In the book he compares his life (a middle-class kid, college-educated parents, attended elite private schools and was given one extra chance after another) to the life of a poor Baltimore kid (single mother, brother's a drug dealer, attended a shytty public school), and comes to the conclusion that he succeeded in life because of the "stories" he was introduced to in books and role models. Yeah, it was definitely that, not, you know, actually having a stable upbringing, financial security, and a 1-percenter education.

He's also a former soldier, former investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Citibank, and interned in the Bush White House under both Tom Ridge and Condoleezza Rice. He credits reading the autobiography of Colin Powell as being a defining moment in his life. During the Bush Administration he identified as a "social moderate and strong fiscal conservative". So yeah, he talks a good game but it's pretty tough to trust him.

Then again, I trusted Obama a LOT after reading his first book and we saw where that went. Wes Moore to me looks exactly like what Obama eventually became, so who knows.
 
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I read his book and he came off as an empty suit who has spent his entire life building his resume and doesn't understand issues of poverty with any depth at all.

In the book he compares his life (a middle-class kid, college-educated parents, attended elite private schools and was given one extra chance after another) to the life of a poor Baltimore kid (single mother, brother's a drug dealer, attended a shytty public school), and comes to the conclusion that he succeeded in life because of the "stories" he was introduced to in books and role models. Yeah, it was definitely that, not, you know, actually having a stable upbringing, financial security, and a 1-percenter education.

He's also a former soldier, former investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Citibank, and interned in the White House under both Tom Ridge and Condoleezza Rice. He credits reading the autobiography of Colin Powell as being a defining moment in his life. During the Bush Administration he identified as a "social moderate and strong fiscal conservative". So yeah, he talks a good game but it's pretty tough to trust him.

Then again, I trusted Obama a LOT after reading his first book and we saw where that went. Wes Moore to me looks exactly like what Obama eventually became, so who knows.

Lot of platitudes coming from Wes right now.

I’ll be paying attention to what he does in January. I similarly don’t trust him.

With a supermajority in both House and Senate, Wes will no doubt be better than Larry Hogan.

He just appointed his leadership team but I haven’t done a deep dive on them yet
 

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I read his book and he came off as an empty suit who has spent his entire life building his resume and doesn't understand issues of poverty with any depth at all.

In the book he compares his life (a middle-class kid, college-educated parents, attended elite private schools and was given one extra chance after another) to the life of a poor Baltimore kid (single mother, brother's a drug dealer, attended a shytty public school), and comes to the conclusion that he succeeded in life because of the "stories" he was introduced to in books and role models. Yeah, it was definitely that, not, you know, actually having a stable upbringing, financial security, and a 1-percenter education.

He's also a former soldier, former investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Citibank, and interned in the Bush White House under both Tom Ridge and Condoleezza Rice. He credits reading the autobiography of Colin Powell as being a defining moment in his life. During the Bush Administration he identified as a "social moderate and strong fiscal conservative". So yeah, he talks a good game but it's pretty tough to trust him.

Then again, I trusted Obama a LOT after reading his first book and we saw where that went. Wes Moore to me looks exactly like what Obama eventually became, so who knows.

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Didn't he have a $21,000 electric bill that he had to pay for--and did so quickly.

That shyt didn't sit right with me. It was quieted quickly, but I wonder what the story was there.
 

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When did Wes become a Democrat.

He's been a Dem.

Didn't he have a $21,000 electric bill that he had to pay for--and did so quickly.

That shyt didn't sit right with me. It was quieted quickly, but I wonder what the story was there.

It was a water bill. :wow:



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I read his book and he came off as an empty suit who has spent his entire life building his resume and doesn't understand issues of poverty with any depth at all.

In the book he compares his life (a middle-class kid, college-educated parents, attended elite private schools and was given one extra chance after another) to the life of a poor Baltimore kid (single mother, brother's a drug dealer, attended a shytty public school), and comes to the conclusion that he succeeded in life because of the "stories" he was introduced to in books and role models. Yeah, it was definitely that, not, you know, actually having a stable upbringing, financial security, and a 1-percenter education.

He's also a former soldier, former investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Citibank, and interned in the Bush White House under both Tom Ridge and Condoleezza Rice. He credits reading the autobiography of Colin Powell as being a defining moment in his life. During the Bush Administration he identified as a "social moderate and strong fiscal conservative". So yeah, he talks a good game but it's pretty tough to trust him.

Then again, I trusted Obama a LOT after reading his first book and we saw where that went. Wes Moore to me looks exactly like what Obama eventually became, so who knows.



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I'm surprised you would criticize Obama but I agree with you analysis

And precisely because of his moderate stances he might be a presidential candidate soon.
 

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I read his book and he came off as an empty suit who has spent his entire life building his resume and doesn't understand issues of poverty with any depth at all.

In the book he compares his life (a middle-class kid, college-educated parents, attended elite private schools and was given one extra chance after another) to the life of a poor Baltimore kid (single mother, brother's a drug dealer, attended a shytty public school), and comes to the conclusion that he succeeded in life because of the "stories" he was introduced to in books and role models. Yeah, it was definitely that, not, you know, actually having a stable upbringing, financial security, and a 1-percenter education.

He's also a former soldier, former investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Citibank, and interned in the Bush White House under both Tom Ridge and Condoleezza Rice. He credits reading the autobiography of Colin Powell as being a defining moment in his life. During the Bush Administration he identified as a "social moderate and strong fiscal conservative". So yeah, he talks a good game but it's pretty tough to trust him.

Then again, I trusted Obama a LOT after reading his first book and we saw where that went. Wes Moore to me looks exactly like what Obama eventually became, so who knows.
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:gladbron:

I'm surprised you would criticize Obama but I agree with you analysis

And precisely because of his moderate stances he might be a presidential candidate soon.


You haven't read many of my posts, I criticize Obama a lot more than I support him. I had extremely high hopes for him in 2008 and campaigned very hard for him, by 2010 he had disappointed me enough that I left the Democratic Party (for good this time).
 
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