Buttigieg Channels Obama In Iowa

Wall Street Journal: “The comparisons the mayor draws with Mr. Obama are designed to bolster the notion that his candidacy is also historic—he’d be the first openly gay man to occupy the White House—and that voters shouldn’t shy away from him just because he doesn’t have years of Washington experience.”

“There are other clear similarities between the Obama and Buttigieg White House bids: Midwest ties, an overt outreach to Republicans, presentations that can be professorial at times and calls for generational change (Mr. Obama was nine years older during his campaign than Mr. Buttigieg is now). When Mr. Buttigieg talks about being “impatient” for changes in Washington, that is reminiscent of the “fierce urgency of now” Mr. Obama talked about in 2007 and 2008 as he cited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.”