belong to amy klobuchar. she will be at an event tomorrow in minneapolis, where she s expected to announce her plans for the 2020 presidential race. back tao back announcements are sort of fitting, as the two senators are emblematic of divergent paths, the democratic party could follow. while senator warren is known for her uber-progressive, anti-banker populism, klobuchar is a middle western moderate. do we go to the left? do we go to the middle? here s the deal. democrats should ask themselves one question and one question only. who can beat donald trump? voters agree with me. according to a recent poll by monmouth university, most
parallel course with this administration on some economic issues, on social change, minimum wage. just reaching out to the poor. but then you get to the cultural and social issues, not so much. sure. so you ve got those divergent paths. pope francis is more likely and the white house more likely tomorrow when they go to the vatican to emphasize where they come together. but that s going to be a very important moment. and then you ve described as the i m sorry tour of saudi arabia with king abdullah. i m told he, the aging king, the leader of the kingdom, is ready to tell the president exactly what he thinks about syria, the red lines, about the iran negotiations. that is not going to be a very easy stop. no, it s not. but let s bring that up a minute. we should be standsing up for our colleague from t the jerusalem post .
this week and the days to come, that people will see the real value of the kind of leadership that was not self-centered and it was not based on division but on unification. i do want to chime in on this. there was a great difference between nelson mandela and dr. king, which i ll get to in one second. our two countries were going on divergent paths. apartheid is not that old. it came in in 1948 with the national party. at the same time, america was moving toward civil rights, toward the brown versus the board of education was a few years later. he realized south africa was on the wrong side of history. but he also realized, when he came out, he had to repair the breach. part of the reason he never showed his bitterness, which he did have, was that he knew he had to reconcile white and black for a new south africa. the white s business center was the engine of prosperity for africa. south africa couldn t survive without them, he knew that. and that was one reason he never showed th
on unification. i do want to chime in on this. there was a great difference between nelson mandela and dr. king, which i ll get to in one second. our two countries were going on divergent paths. apartheid is not that old. it came in in 1948 with the national party. at the same time, america was moving toward civil rights, toward the brown versus the board of education was a few years later. he realized south africa was on the wrong side of history. but he also realized, when he came out, he had to repair the breach. part of the reason he never showed his bitterness, which he did have, was that he knew he had to reconcile white and black for a new south africa. the white s business center was the engine of prosperity for africa. south africa couldn t survive without them, he knew that. and that was one reason he never showed the anger or bitterness. the 1986 decision for apartheid here laid the ground