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lauriemcf's avatar

She is so articulate - so clear. Compared to Jeffries and Schumer, who are dull and not good communicators, she is a very bright light.

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

Duh! AOC was a bartender. Some of the most educated people in the country are/were bartenders.

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WJB Motown's avatar

OAC loves helping people and cares for others......the #! most important trait in a successful..truthful, life in public service. OAC is the real deal

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Eileen Lucas's avatar

Many bartenders are not only well-educated, but are among the most empathetic people around!

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Michele's avatar

Ellen, bartenders know how to listen even as they are busy mixing drinks.

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Donald Twaddle's avatar

Good bartenders (AOC) pay attention to patrons, and learn a lot. Poor bartenders (Schumer) ignore their patrons (constituents)) and then wonder why they aren't getting tips (votes).

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J L Graham's avatar

One might argue that growing up in a castle with a golden spoon is not great preparation for understanding and resonating with the struggles of common folk. It does not entirely rule it out, but it seems a whole lot less likely.

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тАЬThe more homeless there are, the more money these organizations get, so their incentive is to increase, not decrease, homelessness!тАЭ -Elon Musk

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Penny Scribner's avatar

She is bright and articulate. But don't underestimate Jeffries. Remember, slow talking John Lewis? I won't comment on Schumer. But he does bring in the money. And money, as everyone is learning, is the "milk" of politics.

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Terry's avatar

Money is what is destroying our country right now! Bernie and AOC are right. We need to have public funding of campaigns and the campaign season should be much shorter like they do in the UK. This constant horse race bullshit is exhausting and a waste of money. There should not be of any campaigning allowed until three months before an election And only publicly financed. All the corruption weтАЩre seeing right now is because of that disgusting citizens united Bill that the criminals at the Supreme Court passed.

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Stephanie Banks's avatar

And with a shorter campaign season, they'd be forced to actually articulate policy with details, evidence and data, instead of disordered ramblings, superficial charm and displaying narcissism in moderation.

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Mike Pollard's avatar

Would that be 3 months before the Primaries? I agree that we subjected to too much campaigning. Now the campaign begins immediately after the victory is confirmed. I would like to see more discussion about this idea.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

I completely agree about much shorter campaigns. Thr current horse race is exhausting and ineffecient.

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Michele's avatar

Well, people are able to run very short campaigns in other countries. We have created an onerous system and of course, fund raising is nonstop.

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MysticShadow's avatar

Agreed and all political advertising should identify who produced the advertising and list who paid for it.

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Michele's avatar

Mystic, i would like the list.

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Professor S's avatar

Exactly, thatтАЩs right. I lived in Germany and, indeed, for a few weeks before the national elections, there were campaign signs everywhere, and then the election came and went, and it was all over. The whole Spiel was so much simpler and money and corruption were mostly kept out of the process. The way itтАЩs done here is totally exhausting and by now pretty rife with corruption, unfortunately, it seems.

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J L Graham's avatar

"Everybody wants to be on all the committees, so you have your staffs doing all the work, because you can't keep up. But the main culprit, the cancer on the body politic, is money: Money,money, money. When I ran 6 years ago, in 1998, I raised $8.5 million. That $8.5 million is $30,000 a week, every week, for 6 years. If you miss Christmas week, you miss New Years week, you are $100,000 in the hole and don't you think we don't know it and we start to work harder at raising money.

As a result, the Senate doesn't work on Mondays and Fridays. We have longer holidays. The policy committee is adjourned and we go over to the campaign building because you can't call for money in the office. So we go over to the building and call for money and obviously we only can give attention to that. We don't have time for each other. We don't have time for constituents, except for the givers." - Fritz Hollings

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D4N's avatar

The "A" constituents. I have experienced that and at a time I and we needed them most.

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J L Graham's avatar

Criminal whose appointment was shepherded by those who weld enormous wealth. The constitutional grounds for buying elections and legislation alleged to be universal guarantees of free speech; the more you can pay the more free speech you get. Too bad if you can't afford it.

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SJR's avatar

I like Hakeem Jeffries, and I think he speaks well. I also like Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin and several others. I am looking forward to April 5th!

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

Hakeem Jeffries is a fine person. He is, however, ill suited for this moment. There is little fire and he has failed to pull his coalition together. Auction paddles at SOTU? Embarrassing.

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Doug G's avatar

Agreed, Barbara. Although I didn't watch it, I think the Dem seats in the chamber should have either been filled with a rousing chorus shouting "Lies!" at every opportunity, or left empty if they couldn't bring themselves to it. Their silence (for nearly 100% of the party) is deafening.

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Sophia Demas's avatar

I would like to add Dan Goldman of NY to the list....

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Michele's avatar

Penny, I agree about Jeffries.

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Dale Rowett's avatar

lauriemcf, I agree that AOC is an outstanding spokesperson for her party and is deeply motivated to be a true public servant. But I can't agree with your assessment of Jeffries. He is articulate, but does not have the "firebrand" persona. That doesn't make him a poor communicator. He appeals to a different type of audience.

More importantly, being an effective leader of legislators doesn't involve dazzling speaking skills. It requires the ability to corral and motivate a bunch of people with differing priorities and sidestep the landmines set by the opposing party. Nancy Pelosi wasn't a scintillating public speaker, but she "got shit done." Jeffries has that potential, if he ever gets the chance.

Schumer, however, is a putz.

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Doug G's avatar

Laurie, I love AOC, hope she primaries Schumer. Her communication skills are very effective at reaching up and down the social strata. Jeffries' oratorical skills are nearly like those of a rapper minister, but I haven't heard much from him lately. Someone should do a wellness check on the Dem leadership.

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

They probably won't answer the door.

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Judith Smith 1111's avatar

lauriemcf -- IMO, AOC is indeed really bright, and she's a woman. I'm also a huge fan of Hakeem Jeffries, who I experience as [also] highly articulate and otherwise hard to characterize. Sen. Schumer is another story.

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