Someone Who Has Never Slept With A Porn Star...

Well this is a nice thing to wake up to: “The best political autobiography since Barack Obama” https://t.co/9HeA5YfrMQ

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) March 17, 2019

The article starts with this: 

Imagine waking up on 4 November 2020 to discover America has elected a man whose knowledge ranges from the Puritan origins of the phrase “city on the hill” to the details of how to modernize sewers with wi-fi connected sensors.

Imagine that this man is also an Afghanistan veteran who understands that “truly grasping and defeating the logic of suicide terrorism” was beyond the capacity of Congress or the Bush administration after 9/11; a student who connected the dots in high school between the values of his theology class and those of Amnesty International; a graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes scholar who got a first at Oxford; the mayor of a small midwestern city who managed to revitalize it in less than eight years; someone who has never slept with a porn star, and who married the very first person he fell in love with.

... and ends with this:

Is it too much to imagine that America could elect a gay president? I don’t think so. If the disaster of George Bush’s administration was sufficient to elect the first black president, I believe the catastrophe of Donald Trump could be just enough to put the first openly gay man in the White House. Especially a man like this. (Read the entire article here.) 

The 2020 Illinois primary is exactly one year from today. (When I wrote in my previous post, below, that "I can only imagine where we'll be a year from now," I didn't realize that March 17, 2020 will be primary day in Illinois.) Is having Election Day and St. Patrick's Day on the same day a good idea? Possibly not but that's a topic for another post. 

A lot will happen in the next year and I have no idea who I'll actually vote for. But I continue to be intrigued by Mayor Pete.