Sunday, April 19, 2015

A sensible candidate with ideas?

Maybe Martin O'Malley, the governor of Maryland is such a person. Some excerpts from an interview of him by NPR:

  • Hillary Clinton is inauthentic, not transparent and will have trouble connecting with younger voters. And Republican economic theory is "bullshit."
  • "The bigger issue is, do we have the ability as a party to lead by our principles? Or are we going to conduct polls every time we try to determine where the middle is on any given day?"
  • "I'm glad she's (Hillary) come around to those positions on the issue of marriage equality, which we passed in Maryland. I'm glad she's come around to the issue of drivers licenses for new American immigrants so that they can obey the rules of the road. This was something we did also in Maryland. So I'm glad she's come around to those positions."
  • "I see — having spoken to younger people, people under 40 — where our country's headed, and it is not the sort of siloed and bureaucratic and ideological world of many of us baby boomers and our siblings. It is a more connected world, and it is a more collaborative and open and transparent world. That's the way I've always governed and that's the way that you have to govern in order to get things done today.
  • "Our tax code's been turned into Swiss cheese. And, certainly, the concentrated wealth and accumulated power and the systematic deregulation of Wall Street has led to this situation where the economy isn't working for us. All of that is true. But it is not true that regulation holds poor people down or regulation keeps middle class from advancing"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Martin O'Malley

Al DeVito said...

Thanks for supplying O'Malley's correct first name.