She is an amazing amalgam of different elements...As opposed to amalgams of the same element. Why mess up your alliteration with a redundancy? And why not an amazing amalgam of elegant elements? Keep the alliteration at least.
... highly educated elite meritocrat, Oakland street fighter, crusading, rough-elbow prosecutor, canny machine pol and telegenic rhetorical brawler. She is also probably the toughest and most hard-nosed progressive on the scene right now....The rest of the achievatrons... like I guess the "partner at a prestigious law firm" she acquired as one of the achievements Brooks admires.
She went to a prestigious school.... before going to law school, zooming up the political ladder and marrying a partner at a prestigious law firm. She is famously comfortable in rooms of the very wealthy.
But in deciding to work as a prosecutor — rather than going to a law firm — Harris was immersing herself in the gritty world the rest of the achievatrons were rising away from....
Harris was a beneficiary of the machine of the California political giant Willie Brown, who she briefly dated... but Harris made it clear at one forum that there is no way she’s going to bend if Brown or his allies try to influence her....Seems!
To beat Trump, I suspect Democrats will want unity. They won’t want somebody who essentially runs against the Democratic establishment (Bernie Sanders); they’ll want somebody who embodies it (Harris). They’ll want somebody who seems able to pulverize Trump in a debate (Harris)....
Harris’s fearless, cut-the-crap rhetorical style will probably serve her well in this pugilistic political moment.Probably!
Can anyone provide me with a good video clip demonstrating "Harris’s fearless, cut-the-crap rhetorical style," something that looks like it could "pulverize Trump in a debate"? I've never noticed anything like that. I hear a flat, bland style of speech. I mean, that's okay with me. I'm not looking for excitement. But if you're going to lavishly praise her rhetorical style and predict the pulverization of Trump, you need some evidence.
ADDED: I googled "fiery speech from kamala harris" and got this "Nobody is above the law" business, but it's Harris reading in a flat, nasal voice and frequently looking down and stumbling. Show me something where she's thinking on the spot and saying words that come straight from her head that show a "fearless, cut-the-crap rhetorical style" that could "pulverize Trump in a debate."
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* I'm saying "again" because of the way Brooks gushed over Barack Obama in 2006. He famously said, "I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant.... and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president." Notice that's a spoken quote. Brooks didn't write that in a column. The column he wrote at the time was "Run, Barack, Run." Here's how Brooks wrote about Obama:
[Barack Obama] notes that it’s time to move beyond the political style of the baby boom generation. This is a style... that is highly moralistic and personal, dividing people between who is good and who is bad.
Obama himself has a mentality formed by globalization, not the S.D.S. With his multiethnic family and his globe-spanning childhood, there is a little piece of everything in Obama. He is perpetually engaged in an internal discussion between different pieces of his hybrid self — Kenya with Harvard, Kansas with the South Side of Chicago — and he takes that conversation outward into the world....
He distrusts righteous anger and zeal. He does not demonize his opponents and tells audiences that he does not think George Bush is a bad man.
He has a compulsive tendency to see both sides of any issue.... During our talk... he kept returning to his mode, which is conversation, deliberation and reconciliation....
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She's got what it takes
(and she knows how to use it)
Skippy Tisdale:
Shorter J. Farmer:
Government manipulation today,
Government manipulation tomorrow,
Government manipulation forever!
Can you name a developed country on the planet in which the government does not regulate the economy? Try supporting a candidate who runs on that platform and see how far they get.
I’m glad you both managed to beat the hell out of that tiny dead horse.
Earnest Prole:
I’m glad you both managed to beat the hell out of that tiny dead horse.
Haha. That's my specialty :)
Can we just establish as axiomatic that all politicians advance through favors? They all work their way to the top through personal connections. They pull strings, scratch backs, fill rooms with smoke. Certainly people can work themselves into a lather that Brown promoted Harris and, OMG!!!! SEX!!!!, but it's tedious stuff. It's either tedious insult theater or tedious priggishness.
I am not defending "the people defending Harris."
I am not evaluating your specific position except to note your justification groups the unlike criticisms together. I am noting the totality of criticisms generally considered justified [Overton criticisms?] has this result. To me it's revealing people hyper-vigilant about structural racism/sexism/homophobia nevertheless support it whenever it helps Team Blue.
Questioning someone's credentials or qualifications is well within the bounds of acceptable discourse.
And yet you criticized that questioning specifically because it referenced sex even though consistency would be treating sexual relationships the same as other relationships rather than rendering them uncritizable.
I don't consider calling a woman a "whore" an example of that.
Your original objection was to referencing her "personal life" but now you're pretending you're only criticizing unwarranted language?
Sure Henry, unilaterally disarm. Don't call out the pussy hatters on hypocrisy.
@Rick:
Your original objection was to referencing her "personal life" but now you're pretending you're only criticizing unwarranted language?
No, my original objection was that I did not "see much point in getting vicious, cruel, and personal with someone because you disagree with them politically. Attack the policies, attack the record. Resist the school yard temptations." It was only after that comment that McCullough began incessantly referring to her as a "whore."
The reason I say focus on the policies is because I am willing to bet that if Harris shared McCullough's political positions, he would not be the slightest bit bothered by the fact that she had "slept her way to the top" or that she was a "whore."
It was only after that comment that McCullough began incessantly referring to her as a "whore."
Relevant comment:
Blogger J. Farmer said...
And considering that I voted for president a man who is a serially philanderer who has paid hush money to hookers, I am not going to make much a deal about a person' sex life.
2/1/19, 12:13 PM
Nor was this in response to the whore comment.
Farmer,
I’m not the hypocrite you are. So you’d lose that bet.
I don’t give a shit what Harris policies are. They are going to be in flux anyway. She’s already walking back not getting rid of private health insurance. It didn’t poll well apparently.
She’s a vicious person. It’s fair to treat her how she treats others. She might be president someday. She’s still a whore. Got a BMW and two lucrative sinecures at age 30 because she fucked Willie Brown. Other women fucked Willie and we’re out in the payroll as well. One of them had his kid while he was mayor.
So just because you fucked Willie in return for taxpayer dollars doesn’t mean you are going to be president. But it does mean you are a whore.
@tim -- From an electioneering PoV, you have to consider if priggish is persuasive. What exactly are you unilaterally putting down? The stupid gun?
If democrats can give us someone NOT Hillary - I will be OK with it.
Enough of the Clinton Crime Machine already.
He forgot "starfucker."
@mccullough:
I don’t give a shit what Harris policies are.
Oh please. So if Harris supported Trumpist policies like a wall and restrictions on immigration, you'd still oppose her because she spent six months on a state insurance board after dating Willie Brown. Give me a break.
So just because you fucked Willie in return for taxpayer dollars doesn’t mean you are going to be president
Of course you don't know this, but making fact-free statements as if they are the gospel truth seems to be your specialty.
Farmer,
Pulling shit out of your ass isn’t evidence.
If you can cite some evidence showing that I would suooort Harris if I agreed with her policies or she with mine then please provide it.
Otherwise you’re just making shit up.
@Rick:
Relevant comment
You said, "Your original objection was to..." In which case, that is not the "relevant comment." What you're saying is the "relevant comment" was my aside with Mike over his joke about her being a mistress. See the sentence immediately before the one you quoted. That was not the conversation I was having with McCullough.
@mccullough:
Otherwise you’re just making shit up.
Thinking your full of it isn't making shit up. It's an opinion. Making shit up would be me saying, "You're a liar."
@mccullough:
I believe you voted for Trump. Now either you (a) don't believe Trump has done anything morally suspect in his past or (b) you acknowledge he has done morally suspect things in the past but are willing to overlook them because he is preferable to Hillary or his policies are necessary for the well being of the country.
I am in group b. Where are you?
Getting ahead the old-fashioned way.
She let him grab her pussy.
Farmer,
A bet isn’t an opinion. You’re making shit up. Go quote one of my comments to support your opinion.
You can’t.
You are a dipshit, asshole, and prick who doesn’t adhere to his parents teachings that two wrongs don’t make a right.
Kamala Harris exhibited a particularly nasty snottiness in the Kavanaugh hearings. I was repelled by her, but then I’m an old white guy so whatevs.
Willie Brown is a lifetime machine politician. He can get you elected in San Fran. Simple as that.
Will the rest of the nation want to suffer an SF machine politician?
Saying she wanted to "end private health insurance" shows she's high handed to the plebes.
She's a goner if the they get a whiff of her arrogance...
Which is why she practices laughing normally and chose yellow for her campaign colors.
Like Hillary, another freak.
"She is famously comfortable in rooms of the very wealthy."
Brooks is a total snob. No wonder he hates Trump (who is very wealthy)
@mccullough:
"Willing to bet" is a figure of speech that just means I'm sure. And I am sure. And what I am sure of? My opinion about you. That is not the same thing as me saying that you like to sniff little girls' underpants. That would just be a baseless accusation.
p.s. But it is nice of you to come around and concede my point that is evidence is necessary. You're welcome. Hugs and kisses, buddy.
Farmer,
I didn’t vote for Trump.
You can scour my comments on this blog or just take my word for it.
I do agree with a wall and much more stringent immigration enforcement, as well as curtailing legal immigration to about 200,000 a year from the about 1,000,000 we currently have. I’m against all chain migration. I think we should let in younger single people with higher skills. I also am against the H1B visa program as it now stands.
So Trump would be a useful idiot for me on a few issues if he had the attention span to get them done. He doesn’t.
I didn’t like the Kavanaugh pick and still don’t. But the way these Leftist jagoffs went after him bothers me. Harris was one of them,
"Blogger Henry said...
@tim -- From an electioneering PoV, you have to consider if priggish is persuasive. What exactly are you unilaterally putting down? The stupid gun"
Repeal the 19th and we can talk. Until then, this stuff matters.
That was not the conversation I was having with McCullough.
And yet is was the comment I responded to. It's less clear why you think your conversation with someone else determines the context of my comment.
@mccullough:
I didn’t vote for Trump.
You can scour my comments on this blog or just take my word for it.
I'll certainly take your word for it. I presumed that based on the thread from the other day about the wall, where we were seeing things much more eye-to-eye. And we know what happens when you assume. My apologies on that.
If you do not mind me asking, who did you vote for? If you voted, that is.
@Rick:
And yet is was the comment I responded to. It's less clear why you think your conversation with someone else determines the context of my comment.
Rick, in your response to me, you wrote: "Your original objection was to referencing her "personal life" but now you're pretending you're only criticizing unwarranted language?"
That was not my "original objection," and I was not pretending anything.
@tim -- stuff?
I'm asking about effectiveness, not self-justification.
Gays love Kamala. She is fab, fierce and hot.
Tits.
I am the gym now and the place is hopping. Getting ready for the weekend. Let’s work it girls. Listening to the Versace movie soundtrack. 90’s gay music. God bless Ryan Murphy.
@Titus:
Gays love Kamala. She is fab, fierce and hot.
Now if you had Senator Sinema, I'd be inclined to believe it. Did you see those thigh highs in the halls of the Capitol? On point!
And that's how I answered you, Henry.
Farmer,
I wrote in Mitch Daniels for president in 2012 and 2016. I thought he did a good job as governor of Indiana and has focused on the poor fiscal condition of the federal (and state and local governments). He ended up not running in 2012 but I thought he was a decent politician. I’d say the same about Phil Bredesen in Tennessee as Governor. I know he ran for Senate recently but didn’t follow it. He was a decent governor and fairly realistic.
Daniels and Bredesen focused on issues as governor. They were fairly practical and realistic.
I’ve never been into the Culture War stuff. But I think the Dems got out of hand with it. The GOO deserves some blame as well but this Intersectionality-Persecution bullshit is way out of hand. Social Media, especially Twitter, has made it worse. I think it’s appalling that people accuse elected officials and appointed administration officials in restaurants or at their homes.
I’m still fucking astonished that some dumb “confrontation” between some paid no-name Native American Activist and some high school kids and some fringe Black Separatists is a major news story. It is ridiculous. The way Kavanaugh got trashed by the media, politicians, and his own college and law schools over some very ambiguous alleged high school encounter is appalling.
This stuff was out there before Trump but now it’s at the forefront. The search for White Nationalists is everywhere. These imbeciles are actually going to create millions of them with the way they treat people.
These are Strange Days.
I tend to think that 9/11, the Iraq War and other excursions, and the Financisl Meltdown caused some damage to US society. Combined with the dying off of practical citizens and leaders who lived through the Depression and World War 2, we are basically a leaderless society. Most of the people in charge of governments and institutions are just cowards, at best. Some of them might be actually stupid. Our Congress is no more estemmeed than The Detroit City Council. They are about that competent and have less decorum.
New York Times says she got where she is purely on meritorious achievement. I hope you don't mind if people point out the flaws in that narrative.
Let the gay men fawning over women segment begin.
That's diversity.
I suppose Bumatay doesn't rate.
@mccullough:
I am glad we could bring our conversation full circle to a point of agreement. I agree with most of what you wrote here. And while I agree that Daniels always struck me as a decent and honorable guy, I think he is likely too decent for these radical times. Hence I went with the DEFCON 1 strategy of voting Trump.
These are Strange Days indeed. I think we need to alter the expression a bit. "May you living in interesting times...but not that damn interesting!"
@walter:
Let the gay men fawning over women segment begin.
If you prefer a gay man fawning over men, you can get that in the Booker thread.
Ah..another "hands clean" club member in our midst.
But big of you to admit you couldn't see the shitstorm approaching.
Why should anybody be nice to the State-Schtupper, Kamala Harris?
She wants to destroy the economy by collectivizing risk.
That destroys market mechanisms and leads to price fixing.
In other words, her plan is to impoverish America and Americans.
The fact that she is a well-paid whore doesn't mean she didn't sell her body for jobs that paid a lot.
Including a middleman doesn't make her less a whore.
I have nothing against honest whores.
I have everything against Leftist Collectivists.
Last night a dj saved my life. Used to love that song. So true too.
@tim in vermont:
New York Times says she got where she is purely on meritorious achievement. I hope you don't mind if people point out the flaws in that narrative.
I think it is pretty fanciful to imagine almost any politician getting to where they are "purely on meritorious achievement." Networking, schmoozing, and deal making are all endemic to the system.
@Titus:
Last night a dj saved my life. Used to love that song. So true too.
Good song. Take Your Time (Do It Right) by S.O.S. is better.
Getting an appointment because of a personal connection is not a good look, but it's an exceptionally common practice in all layers of government all over the world.
Still 180 degrees off from the point. No one doubts that personal connections influence appointments. But it's hardly a qualification for someone running for President. How about some other demonstration of competence (not including fundraising or stump speeches)?
Then there's the matter of the nature of the connection. A (platonic) friendship? A business relationship? Or a girlfriend? These aren't equivalent.
Farmer,
I’m wondering if Schultz senses some melting down of both parties and thinks he might have a chance.
Trump basically broke the GOP and got enough people to see that they didn’t represent the interests of most of their voters, much less most Americans. I think the Dems are breaking apart as well.
The establishment Dem strategy is just to Get Rid if Trump. Unite all the disparate elements under that common goal. Similar enough to what Trump did in 2016. —Stop Hillary “United” the GOP.
The Dems have veered to the Left not only on cultural stuff, but economic as well. Schultz might be able to break off the Suburban Democrats, which is a good-sized chunk of the general electorate. He could grab the Country Club Republicans as well.
I have no idea how big this Coffee Party would be. My guess is 33%. The rest are Nationalists or Socialists (or just thoughtless party voters who will always vote GOP or Dem).
J Farmer,
Tedious and legalistic as always. Also tendentious.
Let me lay this out very simply. Now, if you jump cut to specific phrases to 'prove' I am wrong, well, that is disingenuous...hell, it's lying. So please stop.
Hillary Clinton had zero experience. She had a very lackluster career except for a god-like talent with cattle futures...once.
And yet she became a landslide NY Senator despite being a Chicago Carpetbagger.
Am I to believe that she won that election fair and square? That she obtained that position purely on her own merits? That no one, not bill, the Blumenthals, Podesta, the NY power brokers, the governor, did not essentially tell most of the leading Democrats to step the fuck back?
This is not only nonsense but errant nonsense. She got the votes, sure, but purely from lack of choice. She was anointed, she got the position. IIRC, ONE smacker was too dumb to stand down and he was eviscerated by the press and the donors. Perhaps he was a sop to 'prove' that this wasn't just the corrupt deal making that is the hallmark of the Clintons.
Kamala Harris was similarly anointed. As one fellow laid out:
“Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was [California] Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco,” Brown wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle..."
Now, you quite unfairly demand transcripts showing collusion, see medical reports of the bruises on the twisted arms, see receipts of the pay out...despite having another Slick Willie admitting that he greased her skids as well as her...ahem.
Do I believe you or do I believe Willie? In this case, it is not you.
Althouse recently was giddy with delight at such an 'interesting candidate', as I think she put it. I wanted competence instead of a Tamil Ancestry and Homeschooling.
Because having idiots raised above their competence is a threat to the Republic. (See Maxine Waters and Hank Johnson).
To wit: Kamala Harris is fiscally innumerate as her 'Medicare for all' plan amply displays.
Further, she is politically tone deaf:
1) Because she does not realize that men make up half the voting population (see Kavanaugh, Character Assassination of)
2) She is blatantly anti-Catholic, which happens to be the religion of choice of a majority of one of the pet demographics of the Democrats
and
3) She has said anti-White and anti-Semitic things, not realizing or caring that White people are still a majority of the population.
She is a Deplorable Smorgasbord!
So if you want to pretend that she got $7 million dollars because of her own skills and without the Party smoothing her path, that is your choice. It also makes you a person who is constantly amazed that the sky is blue, water is wet, and that Democrats engage in machine politics.
Do you, by any chance, want to buy a bridge? Good location...
Dave Begley@9:48 JFC, for the love of God do not repeat that lie! This woman has a real record, a long history of corrupt and unethical behavior, and a very public, televised scenario in which she persecuted a good man based on a accusations that she knew to be false. Someone called her a cross between Hillary and Obama, quite fitting. A disingenuous, corrupt and vindictive asshole with more power than brains.
I bet Kamala waxes her couch. That’s hot. Nothing worse than a hairy pussy.
Titania McGrath:
It’s a broken kind of democracy that allows a majority of voters to impose their wishes on the rest of us.
TIm in Vermont:
Repeal the 19th and we can talk.
Dude, your stuff that matters is losing you votes. You got lucky in 2016 with the Dems running Hillary, but the answer to 2018 is not "not enough insults."
@FIDO:
Enumerating critiques of Harris' positions is pushing on an open door with me. As I have said repeatedly, I don't support her politics and I don't. In fact, in my comment that helped start this whole digression, I explicitly encouraged people to attack her policies and attack her records.
Searching out, recruiting, and backing candidates is what local party machines do. You could see that Schwarzenegger had the unfair advantage of being an A-list superstar, but that doesn't mean he did not win the election "fair and square." The only merits required for winning elected office is receiving the most votes.
The claim that I have disputed was the notion that Harris "slept her way to the top" or traded sexual favors for job appointments. I do not think either of those are fair critiques. As for her positions on Medicare or immigration or racial issues or law enforcement, I'm all for it being open season.
Late to this show, but - Brooks is of course an idiot, or he sees only what he is paid to see.
Its quite amazing how he misunderstands the facts re K.Harris.
mccullough@10:24AM With the Jew-hatred. Later in the thread he brags about writing in milquetoast weenie Mitch Daniels for president in 2016. Buddy, are a fucking asshole.
@James K:
Still 180 degrees off from the point. No one doubts that personal connections influence appointments. But it's hardly a qualification for someone running for President. How about some other demonstration of competence (not including fundraising or stump speeches)?
When did I ever say it was a "qualification for someone running for President?"
@mccullough:
I’m wondering if Schultz senses some melting down of both parties and thinks he might have a chance.
Perhaps he does. I would be very skeptical myself.
Farmer,
I’m skeptical as well. But I was skeptical of Trump’s intentions and still am.
Michael Fitzgerald,
What Jew hatred? I was making a dumb joke about black anti-semitism.
As far as milquetoast that’s a fair description of Daniels. He was also successful. Most politicians aren’t. He’s also kept the tuition at Purdue from going up the last five years. That’s commendable.
Maybe he should have just left all the details and work to his Son In Law.
What is your favorite part of the Kushner Presidency? The trillion dollar deficits remind me of Obama.
The not building the Wall reminds me of Bush.
The Sentencing Reform reminds me of Dukakis.
Who is Kushner’s role model?
It's pretty reasonable to assume that much of the opposition to Trump is opposition to the man at a personal level -- especially among women.
So what's wrong with a visceral, negative reaction to Harris? She earned it. She's proud of it. And she's going to run on it because she's a knife twister at heart.
There's nothing really that the DNC can do to soften Harris's image as a machine politician. They -- the DNC -- are just going to have to argue that that's what the country needs right now. Hillary was their first choice and Harris is their second. I hope that she fails, but the vengeance is stronger this time around.
Chickenlittle,
That’s my problem with Harris and Gillibrand and some of the others. Klobuchar is polite. She’s not a name caller or flamethrower. So I wouldn’t call her a whore if she did what Harris did not would I call Harris a whore if she acted with decorum and some sense of fair play like Klobuchar.
Kamala Harris
Make America into Detroit Again
My favorite part of the Trump presidency is the exposure of the anti-American element in this nation's politicians, both Democrat party members and the other ones. There's a lot to be said for the Supreme Court selections so far, with more to come. The economy is doing better than it has since WWII ended, that's nice, and just added 300,000 jobs during the "government shutdown". There's more, but the topper of them all is that Hillary Clinton is not president, but if a few thousand more midwesterners wrote in 'Mitch Daniels' for president, then she could have been.
> "If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House," Ocasio-Cortez said on Saturday while on a call with Justice Democrats.
If the Democrats take over all 3 chambers of Congress with Kamala
Imagine what this country would become.
My fav Dem is the author who wants
> Williamson’s platform includes a Green New Deal, universal background checks for gun owners and free college or technical school, according to her campaign website.
In the CNN interview, she also called for reparations for slavery, with $10 billion per year to be distributed over a decade.
> "I believe $100 billion given to a council to apply this money to economic projects and educational projects of renewal for that population is a debt to be paid," she said.
Michael Fitzgerald,
Trillion dollar deficits are not the sign of a healthy federal government. It’s not World War 2. The economy is doing well. So why are we running trillion deficits?
Where is the fucking Wall?
I’m happy for you and the other morons that President Kushner’s Sentencing Reform was pushed through instead of the fucking Wall. What campaign rally was that bullshit plan pushed? I don’t remember hearing that piece of shit legislation floating in the air.
I’m immune to bullshit.
Fire the Son In Law and build the fucking wall.
This just in: Ahnold endorses Kamala: sound bite
In the CNN interview, she also called for reparations for slavery, with $10 billion per year to be distributed over a decade.
> "I believe $100 billion given to a council to apply this money to economic projects and educational projects of renewal for that population is a debt to be paid," she said.
Oh God! Come the Day!
I would HAPPILY trade $10 billion a year for 10 years for $50 billion up front for the Wall. That is how tiny the 5.7 billion is for the Trump Wall. It is a rounding error.
Back of the napkin calculations: that is around $3,000 per black person over ten years. To get them to STFU about slavery? Si!
I hope Trump offers it! That would cause Schumer and Pelosi to have to schuck and jive to their shadowy and underappreciated demographic.
President Kushner will get reparations through. Another non-campaign promise fulfilled.
William Chadwick said...
Brooks loves the crease in her panties.
Kamala toe?
KDS
Titus, as a straight man, I can tell you that lack of pussy is way worse than hairy pussy. You know what Napoleon wrote to Josephine? "Don't wash! I'll be there in three days!"
Henry, you are choosing not to hear me. If you want Harris to create a narrative, uncontested, of having risen on merit, when it's manifestly untrue, fine. But I won't be looking to you for advice on how best to attack her.
“When did I ever say it was a ‘qualification for someone running for President?’”
You didn’t, but you argued against it being a point against her. While it’s true that nearly all pols have used personal connections, that doesn’t make it a plus. For a low level office it may be sufficient, or not matter much, but for president it's a negative and needs positives to offset it. Obama was the same: zero accomplishments, elevation by connections.
@James K:
You didn’t, but you argued against it being a point against her.
But James, ask yourself, why is it you oppose Kamala? Is it because of her political machine pedigree or because of her political stance and positions? If Kamala supported Trumpist policies, I'd vote for her in a heart beat and I wouldn't care if she got jobs by screwing 100 men. Similarly, I voted for Trump with little concern for his questionable past.
I just don't see any staying power for this light weight. She is the flavor of the month like OAC while the democrats scramble for another angle now that Pee gate is turning into "Fitzmas". GASP. They may have to run on policies that may actually work on planet earth.
"... looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant...." Lapels are far more presidential looking.
Blogger has a feature where you can hide a particular comment. In an ideal world hiding one comment would hide every comment from that particular commenter, at least until he resolved to be less boring.
There's always the low-tech option of not reading.
A Joke:
Bill Clinton and Hillary were driving around one of the toney neighborhoods of Illinois where she grew up when they needed gas. They pulled in and since they are pretentious, they went to the Full Service pumps. Hillary froze when she saw the man who pumped their gas.
Pulling out, Bill asked her 'What's wrong, sweetie?'
"I used to date him in high school"
Bill smirked. "I guess you made the right choice. If you'd gone with him, you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant."
She gave him a glare. "No, if I married him, HE would be the President of the United States."
Farmer would have us believe that Willie Brown would have put himself out there for Kamala Harris as San Fran AG even if he was not tapping her.
This is...not likely. Very much not likely. Besides failing the bar, what exactly was her 'value added'?
And in opposition to the joke above, if Hillary had NOT married one of the most charismatic, and natural politicians in our age, what did she have to recommend herself? A failed D.C. bar exam. A job that arguably she got through her husband as governor. A grating personality.
Where would Hillary have been if not for Bill? I can see her as a partner after some bare knuckle fighting through corporate land. Because, as noted, any time Bill kept her on stage, his ratings dropped.
Hence her LONG and WIDE tours of anywhere not America with Chelsea.
So while Farmer does not believe her sex life had anything to do with the opportunities offered KH, Willie clearly stated this is not the case, at least initially.
After that? Who can really say. But life is much easier when you have a head start. Lot of pretty 20 something lawyers in the DA offices of California who DIDN'T get to be a city AG at 30.
But I am sure her putting out and getting the seat was just coincidental.
@FIDO:
Oh for the love of god. You wrote a lot there, but frankly it has fuck all to do with anything I've been talking about. As I said, if Kamala had the same biography but supported the policies I care about, I'd vote for her. Ditto Hillary.
Last night a dj saved my life. Used to love that song. So true too.
Good song. Take Your Time (Do It Right) by S.O.S. is better.
Two gay guys discussing 1980's disco in 2019...if I wrote that in a book I'd be accused of stereotyping.
Kammie's a pretty good politician, but like every California AG before her, a mediocre lawyer at best. Of course, only lawyers care about stuff like that.
I owe Althouse an apology. Her 'interesting candidate' was actually for Gabbard, not Harris.
Bill Clinton's version of the song was "Last Night a BJ Saved My Life."
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