{"id":33040,"date":"2026-02-13T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=33040"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:12:56","slug":"jon-ossoff-hiding-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=33040","title":{"rendered":"Jon Ossoff: ‘Hiding in plain sight’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All of a sudden, Jon Ossoff, a U.S. senator from Georgia, is on the presidential radar screen.<\/p>\n

Keith Duggan, Washington correspondent for the Irish Times, has noticed him: Flickers of Obama: Is Georgia senator Jon Ossoff a Democratic presidential runner?<\/a> Also Newsweek: Is Jon Ossoff the Man Democrats Have Been Waiting For? <\/a><\/p>\n

What got their attention was a rally speech that Ossoff gave on February 7 in Atlanta (link below).<\/p>\n

Not only is Ossoff qualified, he is not an easy target for Republican demonization. Not only is Newsom from the state that Republicans hate the most — California — he’s also from San Francisco. Pete Buttigieg is gay. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an unapologetic socialist. (I think that Buttigieg would make a fine secretary of state. And AOC has definitely earned her way into the cabinet of the next Democratic president.)<\/p>\n

Whereas if Ossoff has any such political baggage, I’m not aware of it. He has the perfect education — Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, and the London School of Economics. The Wikipedia article<\/a> has more on his past and his political positions. Just imagine having someone in the White House who actually knows something about the world!<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, it was a rule with the Democratic Party that there had to be a Southerner on the ticket. Democrats foolishly forgot that.<\/p>\n

Ossoff is in rally mode in the video, and that’s fine. But it’s high time now that someone does a sitdown policy interview with him. <\/p>\n

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