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A New Hope: Kamala Harris

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Mr.Scarface, Nov 11, 2016.

  1. FranchiseBlade

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    BA from Princeton. Attended Harvard Law. Worked for Sidley and Austin. Was assistant commissioner for the department of Planning and Development.
    Founded a branch of Public Allies training program for Young Adults. She served as the branch's Executive Director.

    That's twice the resume of you and @SuraGotMadHops combined.
     
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    Thats too much achievement, education and color for some people.
     
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    Where’s she been anyways? I honestly forgot about her
     
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    you don't want me a heartbeat from the presidency.
     
  6. FranchiseBlade

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    If you had that resume, I might be okay with it.
     
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    I wouldn't want you to say hello to me as a Walmart greeter...good thing we know you won't be either.
     
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    I don't want a person spewing stupidity for 20 years on a message board anywhere near the presidency.
     
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    how do you know I don't?
     
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    Lucky guess.
     
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    Breh @basso passed art history and didn’t drop out like the majority of the d&d
     
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    It's actually kind of refreshing having someone in office that knows how to laugh and be a bit goofy. MAGA people hate her because they just hate her, but it doesn't change the fact that most people in the country would hear that and hear her laugh, and think she seem like she'd be fun to hang out with. Much more fun than Mike freaking Pence who is about as entertaining as reading an Encyclopedia.

    The fact that you guys are so bothered by her speaks more towards you guys than anything else. Would I vote for her in the 2028 primaries on Super Tuesday here in Texas.... probably not. For the job of VP I think she's fine. The fact that she's never in the news and all we see is MAGA bro's sh$t posting about her cackle is probably a good thing.
     
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    I'm not bothered by her, and she doesn't seem malicious or anything. She seems more like this slightly embarrassing, cringey relative. Obama's delivery and timing were always impeccable, regardless of whether one agreed with his political views. Kamala, on the other hand...
     
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    The Democrats’ Kamala Harris Problem
    Even New York Times readers are rejecting the identity politics that put her on the 2020 ticket.

    https://www.city-journal.org/democrats-kamala-harris-problem

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    Few better ways exist to gauge the progressive zeitgeist than perusing the most popular comments on widely read articles in the New York Times. A new piece on Kamala Harris, for instance, reveals that many of the Times’s most ardent readers are no longer fans of the vice president.

    A trio of Times reporters spoke to dozens of Democrats and concluded the obvious: Harris has become a problem for the party. Influential Democrats don’t want Biden to retire because they know Harris can’t win in 2024. But he can’t dump her from the reelection campaign, for fear of infuriating what the Timescalls “key Democratic constituencies.” Nevertheless, keeping Harris as vice president may be even more risky for an 82-year-old candidate than it was for, say, a 68-year-old George H. W. Bush to keep Dan Quayle on the ticket when he ran for re-election in 1992.

    The most popular comments on the piece were so savage you might have thought you were reading a Fox News piece, not the Times. It isn’t surprising at this point that many liberals want Harris off the ticket, but what was eye-opening was that many, if not most, of the top-rated comments criticized Harris as an identity politics pick, who lacks substance and isn’t up to the job.

    The highest-rated comment, with more than a thousand likes, said, “This is what happens when you choose and elect a candidate because of their identity, and not their competence.” Another reader asked: “When will she and her media supporters realize she was an identity politics pick and nothing else?” One of the other popular comments concluded that Biden picked her “as a necessary tick box among very competent options.”

    One reader wondered, “When are Democrats going to recognize that gender identity is NOT a winning issue?” Another opined, “Any boosterism in favor of Harris at this point requires one to ignore everything they’ve seen and heard in favor of a narrative that is built on identity rather than substance.” On and on the Times readers went, unloading on a woman regarded by the Left just a few years ago as a trailblazing heroine, likely to reshape the vice presidency.
    more at the link
     
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    TBH I have an 8 year old... having a charger all the time is like a big deal for an 8 year old. You know how many times we get her ready for school, she forgot to charge her school ipad, and we have to figure out how we are going to juice it up in time for class?

    Actually not a bad idea, but yeah yeah I get it, you guys are looking for something... anything to ridicule Kamala for because you don't want to touch policy positions, and things that actually matter.

    I also like how the previous poster only compared her to Barrack Obama...haha... like and why would THAT be the only person to compare her to? Not you know.... the 45 other previous vice presidents. I WONDER what that similarity is.... hmmmm....

    I was alive for the Clinton years, and remember how much Al Gore was hated by the right, and those on the left thought he was too much of a dolt. Yet he still managed to win the popular vote in the next Presidential election. I'm not saying that Kamala should be the nominee when Biden steps down (I think there are far better candidates tbh) but against a vile GOP nominee which would be either Trump or DeSantis right now, I like Kamala's odds. Nobody craves cauliflower but when you have it side by side with a dirty diaper, the cauliflower looks pretty good.

    Yeah... like with W Bush, the Dirty Diaper still won because of the electoral college, but I'm just saying.... compared to the garbage your party is likely to nominate, I wouldn't be so giddy to mock Kamala Harris. She could still beat someone like Trump if the electorate shows up.
     
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    Dan Quayle is positively Einsteinian compared to Kamala Harris.

    Also, it's little known that Pence reached out to Quayle (Indiana, as well as VP, connection), when he was getting pressure from Trump post 2020 election. Quayle gave sage advice.
     
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    it's not the USB outlets are not convenient, but rather the stupid gushing over USB as some sort of exotic technology.
     
  20. dobro1229

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    Who cares? Government is supposed to be about representatives caring deeply about the small stuff. If we are talking about building roads, bridges, bringing internet to the sticks, getting new buses, etc. that's a good thing. That's what it should be about... not insurrections, and F-ing UFO's, and global pandemics.

    Having a few boring "non-exotic" days of simple wins is a good thing. It's good for government to be a bit "non-exotic" every once in awhile.
     
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