Oval Office https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/oval-office/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:43:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Oval Office https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/oval-office/ 32 32 16720591 Another Quaker(ish) president? https://www.quakerranter.org/another-quakerish-president/ https://www.quakerranter.org/another-quakerish-president/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:07:08 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61708 Because the Quaker presidential track record is so distinguished (Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon) maybe it’s time to put another Quaker into the Oval Office. John Hickenlooper, former governor of Colorado and raised in the Philly suburbs, has thrown his hat into the ring.

Back in 2010 he told the Philadelphia Inquirer he and his wife were regular meeting attenders living “Quaker values” but when Friends Journal reached out to him a few years ago it sounded like he no longer identified as a Friend.


John Hickenlooper Says He Is Running in 2020, Citing a ‘Crisis of Division’ (Published 2019)

John Hickenlooper Says He Is Running in 2020, Citing a ‘Crisis of Division’ (Published 2019)

The former Colorado governor joins a crowded Democratic field. Even in his home state, there is skepticism that…
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]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/another-quakerish-president/feed/ 0 61708 New Yorker New Yorker New Yorker https://www.quakerranter.org/new-yorker-new-yorker-new-yorker/ https://www.quakerranter.org/new-yorker-new-yorker-new-yorker/#respond Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:45:23 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=56776 Websites are starting to talk about a Donald Trump presidential cabinet and the names highlight a curiosity of this election: many of the principle insiders come from Northeast Corridor states that voted for Hillary Clinton. Rudolph Giuliani and Chris Christie, are, like the whole Trump family, metro New Yorkers and as far as I know Newt Gingrich lives in northern Virginia.

I’ve lived in Chris Christie’s New Jersey since he was elected governor and I find it really hard to believe he’s suddenly going to have a strong interest in the Midwestern red states that gave Trump the win. You can point to VP-elect Mike Pence of Indiana, but as far as I can tell he was only brought on for strategic reasons and is not part of the Trump circle.

What really can Trump do to bring back the good paying jobs that disappeared decades ago? Our economy has been shifting regardless of which party occupies the Oval Office. There’s sops and pork to be doled out, but the national economy has been centralizing in the big coastal cities that our new political leaders call home (the same would have been true with a Clinton presidency). What if Trump’s election is the ultimate prank: red states selling their vote to a New York developer who will mostly continue to develop the New York-to-DC corridor?

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