Buttigieg 2020

and it also led to back him because I saw how perfect is was.

When a president (who faked a disability in order to avoid serving) attacks a departed war hero, it’s for attention.

We should honor the late Senator McCain, and also follow his example by focusing not on the behavior of the president but on the future of our country.

Very polite in tone, but a clear attack on Trump, followed by disclaiming such attacks and a final pivot to a more important topic. Brilliant. Like a stiletto to Trump's bludgeon.

Also consider today's response to Pence's wife when she complained that they used to get along so well.

People will often be polite to you in person, while advancing policies that harm you and your family. You will be polite to them in turn, but you need not stand for such harms. Instead, you push back, honestly and emphatically. So it goes, in the public square.

Basically, we did the perfunctory political air kisses, but that has nothing to do with you trying to stab me in the back. But, hey, that's politics.