Posted on 06/23/2019 3:03:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The already large field of Democratic presidential candidates has grown again: Joe Sestak, a former Pennsylvania congressman with an extensive military background, said Sunday that he plans to seek the presidency.
Im Joe Sestak, and I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras to Afghanistan and Iraq and the emergence of China, he said in a video announcing his candidacy.
A retired three-star admiral, Sestak represented Pennsylvanias 7th congressional district for two terms, from 2007 to 2011, and has mounted two unsuccessful runs for the US Senate.
His experience, during his 31-year naval career, included a command position in a region now much in the news: In 2002, he led a carrier strike group during combat operations in the Gulf.
Sestak, whose father was a navy man, also served on the national security staff under President Bill Clinton. He holds a doctorate in government and political economy from Harvard.
Sestak has a reputation as something of a maverick and party outsider.
He is pro-choice, supports gun control, and backed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Sestaks late entry into an already crowded field which he said came after his daughters brain cancer returned will complicate his path forward.
Along with three other candidates, he missed the cutoff to be included in the first two televised debates, which will feature 20 Democratic candidates and be held on Wednesday and Thursday in Miami.
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A Vietnam trigger-puller once told me about his experience: not everyone in the military was smart.
Maverick my behind! He looks like a conventional RAT to me!
It is, after all, a hugh and series field.
Lotta clowns in that clown car. Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Good, more losers.
Joe Nobody rides again
Trying to be the Harold Stassen of the ComDem Party
This guy is such an a$$hole. Look up his history.
I did not know that!
pro-choice, supports gun control, and backed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
In other words a leftist Obongo general
No thanks.
McCain proved that a long time ago.
I did serve, so I will say something disparaging. Most of the senior officers who had a tour in DC were just like Sestak - and I argued with them about our Constitution day after day. It just didn’t matter to them - they drank the kool-aid and bought into the belief that the average American was dumb as a rock and needed to be controlled.
They didn’t care that it could lead to an internal armed conflict - seemed to think they were such great leaders the troops would follow them. This is one guy I’d like to see hanging from a lamppost.
Sestak has a reputation as something of a maverick and party outsider.
He is pro-choice, supports gun control, and backed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
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I’m waiting for the “maverick” part.
HRC calling in the favors. Setting up a brokered convention.
This may be the future for the Dems, though. I notice that most European countries seem to have a multitude of fractional parties that form government through shifting coalitions. The Democrat Party appears to have achieved that condition within itself in America.
There is no “center” to the Democrat wheel. As it spins, it is blowing apart.
This jerk waited till they drove by and grabbed on to the bumper. LMAO.
BTW, how the hell is he a “Maverick” for supporting all of his parties’ positions?
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Saturday morning cartoons.
Hi.
Wasn’t Sestak the deciding vote on 0bamacare in the House in 2009?
5.56mm
The moonbat media uses “positive” phrases like that to shower praise on their sociopathic darlings while doing the reverse to their “villains” (”far-right”, “racist”, et al) to smear good people. The only time the media uses “maverick” is to describe those that support the Demonrat position (McQueeg or Amash). “Flunky” ought to be the correct usage.
Post #38.
Their definition of "maverick" was obtained from FactCheck.org or maybe Media Matters, or Snopes.
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