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In reply to the discussion: I know the Democrat I want to run in 2028. [View all]DFW
(58,505 posts)Id really only be sorta qualified for Secretary of State, and Pete Buttigieg is by far the better man for that. My brother could do Defense or Homeland Security, but he recently retired from the spook biz, and I think hes done with it.
In mid 2016, as a matter of fact, I got a feeler from the DNCHillary was still fully expected to win at that pointabout being named as ambassador to Germany. I speak the language and my wife is German. I would have been just as happy as ambassador to France (I speak French) or Spain (I speak Spanish and Catalan). But, I might not have been as diplomatic as a diplomat is expected to be, and I probably wouldnt have liked the pay cut. I might have taken the pay cut to be US ambassador to the UN. My wife and I like NYC, and one of our daughters lives there. Plus, I could tell the Russian ambassador to go to hell (Adlai Stevenson did, sorta, and that was 60 years ago), in public, and in Russian. Thats worth a pay cut all by itself!
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