Perfumed and tailored for a certain brand of folksy, identity politics, Pete Buttigieg hoped to blast his way to the White House having run a community of 102,000 constituents in South Bend, Indiana. Mayor Pete was hoping for the best, though his effort did not so much stall as fall over early on before the somnambulist who eventually won both his party’s nomination and the Presidency.
With President-elect Joe Biden hoping to give the impression of full-blooded diversity in his Cabinet, Buttigieg was a natural choice for transport secretary. At least New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the US Conference of Mayors thought so. He spoke well, much like a textbook Rotarian who wishes to justify the club fee. He comes across as tutored, yet to be jaded. And there was that wonderful bonus thrown in: his sexual politics.
ivanka the kind of advances they want, yet she is putting forth some proposals that would help some women and i think that feminists appreciate that, but they want her to go much farther. it s not a salve to put her in his seat if she s not really doing the kind of things that are going to help women. and all this while it wasn t what a week ago she said she s not, you know, political, yet she has a very important role as a policy an adviser there in the white house. so perhaps it s still young, she s still trying toing if your out her role or the white house is trying to figure out how to embrace her, all that good stuff. we shall see. when i saw her sitting in that seat i was wondering what donald trump would have said if michelle obama had taken president obama s seat at one of those kinds of events. good point. all right. jodi enda, thanks so much again. looking at the images, marine one as it makes its way to air force one as the president now
fight for, but the republican congress is quite conservative and they are scaling back on some of the initiatives that women support. things like medicaid, which will be cut if president trump s proposed budget goes through, affect two-third of the medicaid recipients are women. things like abortion rights, birth control, housing assistance, public education, all are things that women are fighting for and we just don t know what the end result will be. jodi, while we re talking, we re also seeing that in marine one there, the president of the united states is soon to be making hi way to air force one as he leaves hamburg, germany. you heard me mention, we showed the image earlier of donald trump s daughter ivanka taking hid seat at the table of world leaders.
wraps up hi g-20 summit there in hamburg, germany. and of course be sure to check out jodi s new article in cnn s new digital magazine called state. it s at cnn.com/state. much more in the newsroom straight ahead. first, the 90s unleashed a wide range of television shows from animated hits bike southpark to sitcoms like seinfeld and friends. take a look down memory lane. some of my favorite shows of all time aired in that decade and everybody was watching them. ah! there was still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher and farther and they were great. because there were so many channels and because so much storytelling was going on, you started to get more variety of stories being told. schedule a c.a.t. scan and call the neurosurgery resident. television showed us women