She Has Arrived!
As much as I liked Hillary and heard what she was saying, when I listen to Kamala, I believe she feels what she says.
I didn’t know Kamala Harris before she became the vice president. I have written harsh articles about her and argued with her supporters who called me “racist” and a “misogynist” for not being in love with her the way they were (they were just dopey, clueless liberals obsessed with political correctness and are as bad as MAGidiots).
Nonetheless, when I realized Biden couldn’t beat Trump, my support shifted to the Kamala the way it does for any team playing the Cowboys. Since she became the great “caramel-hued” hope for our democracy, I haven’t spent much time getting to know Ms. Harris. Part of me didn’t want to find anything that could make me uneasy. As an international affairs person, I have a master’s in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the vice president’s mistaken reference to North Korea as our decades-long ally still echoes in my head. I feared that if I looked closer by putting her under the microscope, I might learn of other completely off-the-wall comments.
Comfortable letting her pass for the sake of our democracy, I chose to float on the surface and bask in the knowledge that the sky was blue, the pool water crystal clear, and my beer was floating nearby in a cooler. Kamala was going to be our answer to beating Trump, regardless of whether she was the best person for the job or not.
Last night, however, my sense that I had been vastly mistaken about her culminated. Ever since she became the candidate, I have marveled at her ease of being in the spotlight. I never felt comfortable when Hillary Clinton spoke because I genuinely sensed that Hillary was insincere or disliked us. After Hillary lost and went through a couple of years of self-reflection, she seems to have gotten to a better place but the anger she felt when treated so horrifically as the First Lady always seemed palpable. From the first time I saw Kamala speak, unfettered by the need as the VP to be respectfully low-key, she seemed so comfortable being Kamala Harris. As many have noted, she seems to enjoy what she is doing.
Vice President Kamala Harris used her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday to present herself as a pragmatic leader who could unite all Americans behind a “new way forward,” painting her opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, as a dangerous and “unserious man” whose election would alter the foundation of American democracy.
With a steady voice and a straightforward gaze, Ms. Harris, a former prosecutor, presented the lengthiest and most serious case she has made against Mr. Trump as a presidential candidate.
“With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past,” she said. “A chance to chart a new way forward. Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans (Harris Promises to Chart a New Way Forward).”
The 40-minute speech, the most important speech Kamala Harris has made in her life, was an introduction for me to a person I find that I like. I enjoyed listening to her story. I like how she speaks; contrary to what Donald Trump says, she is a beautiful woman. Unlike the goon squad surrounding Trump, her family seemed not just lovely but completely normal. The funniest thing for me was how uncomfortable Ms. Harris’ tattooed stepdaughter seemed to be wearing that “prom” dress. Even that little scene told me that Kamala Harris at home is dealing with issues common to many Americans.
Her speech didn’t try to “Obama” us by reaching into the rhetorical stratosphere. It was more of a Biden-esque promise from just “one of us” to ensure that the government she hopes to lead will strengthen the foundation to make our nation as great as it should be. I have already written about the stark differences between the RNC and the DNC— night versus day, good versus evil, fascism versus democracy — and in listening to Kamala Harris speak, you really understand how vile, rotten, and mentally ill Donald Trump is. It would be interesting to run a split screen of the two talking about their visions of America — one is a Mad M ax-meets-Schindler’s List, and the other is Forest Gump meets Rocky.
Thank you, Joe, for giving us Kamala.
Ms. Harris, I look forward to your orders.
The election of the Orange Fuehrer would not 'alter the foundation of American democracy.' His election would destroy it irrevocably and install a dictatorship not only of himself but of an army of Republican commissars and cadres who are now being trained for the permanent takeover using the Mandate for Leadership of Plan 2025. It is like the Bolshevik plan imposed on Russia by Lenin and Trotsky in 1917. Federal and State employees who have already been assessed and judged to lack loyalty to the Fuehrer and the Party will be transferred to Schedule F and sacked wholesale. They will be replaced by fanatical Republican Party loyalists. Competence will not be a selection criterion, only loyalty.
Once the Orange Fuehrer has approved and signed Schedule F and the Mandate for Leadership he will no longer matter and will be allowed and indulged to sink into deluded irrelevance. Plan 2025 will roar into action as a giant bureaucratic machine.