Subject: Fetterman
I'd heard the name, but don't really concern myself with PA politics. So didn't really know a lot about him (like he almost died from a stroke). Apparently both the extreme right and the extreme left want him dead. So he's probably my kinda guy!! ;-)

He is staunchly pro-Israel. In this article he doesn't say much about the Palestinians. I also have no sympathy for Hamas, and after 9/11 I was OK with the US blasting those who harbored the folks that were giving shelter to the enemy. So I get where Israel is coming from. At the same time, a lot of people who have no interest in politics or Hamas are dying. They just want to go about their lives unmolested. I don't know what to do about that, but we should at least acknowledge it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/1...

“I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a secured border,” Mr. Fetterman said in the interview, conducted over Zoom. “I would never put Dreamers in harm’s way, or support any kind of cruelty or mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people. But it’s a reasonable conversation to talk about the border.”

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The Pennsylvania senator said he still aligns with many progressive goals, including a $15 minimum wage, universal health care, legalizing marijuana and abolishing the Senate filibuster.

But he said he no longer relates to the overarching label of “progressive” — especially as the left has become more interested in demanding what he described as “purity tests.”

Yeah...I think I may like this guy. I'm sure I won't agree with him about everything, but then I very seldom do with anyone.