From "Kamala Harris Husband, Douglas Emhoff, Is Her Number One Fan/Douglas Emhoff is the unofficial president of the #TeamKamala fan club" (Marie Claire).
August 11, 2020
"Years before meeting [Kamala] Harris, [Douglas] Emhoff was married to a woman named Kerstin, and they had two children together: Cole (after jazz saxophonist John Coltrane)..."
"... and Ella (after Ella Fitzgerald, of course). When Emhoff and Harris hit it off, the future attorney general was initially very wary of the idea of meeting his kids because she knew just how important they were to him. 'As a child of divorce, I knew how hard it could be when your parents start to date other people... And I was determined not to insert myself in their lives until Doug and I had established we were in this for the long haul. Children need consistency; I didn’t want to insert myself into their lives as a temporary fixture because I didn’t want to disappoint them. There’s nothing worse than disappointing a child.'"
From "Kamala Harris Husband, Douglas Emhoff, Is Her Number One Fan/Douglas Emhoff is the unofficial president of the #TeamKamala fan club" (Marie Claire).
From "Kamala Harris Husband, Douglas Emhoff, Is Her Number One Fan/Douglas Emhoff is the unofficial president of the #TeamKamala fan club" (Marie Claire).
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Message to BLM:
Fuck off. What are you going to do - vote Republican?
Emhoff!!.....another strand of pearls.
Wait!! KamelToe has not children.
Seems like Maya jabber would come before this.
Parents?
Okay, she married a dude with kids. This doesn’t make her a saint or excuse any of her actions over the years. However, I fully expect the MSM media to shove this type of puerile fare to the forefront of every breathless story of the ever so brave fellatrix and descendent of a slave owner.
good looking children - looking open faced and honest.
Cole for Ornette Coleman. Cole for Coleman Hawkins. Cole for Nat King Cole.
Legs Up.
"There’s nothing worse than disappointing a child." Except maybe sending him to prison on a drug possession charge.
Commence the Women's Wear Daily Articles!
We can't let Dem voters wonder for a second, "Who is she?"
Without talking points their craniums would implode.
Shorter Article: Yes he's white but he named his kids after black people.
congrats to Kamala, fist African-American VP nominee
I think its a BFD this woman never had kids of her own. She has no skin in the game (or soul in the game as Nassim Taleb would say). She chose her career and lust for power rather than building a family of her own. Its not relatable for a ton of women.
So White.
Grateful every day to be Momala
Except she's not their mom. They have a mom. She's just the gal sleeping with their dad.
Some, Select... Perhaps not. It would explain her strict stance on drug redistribution.
Here comes the flapdoodle campaign.
If I was Black, I'd be offended by the Democrats and Biden in particular. The smell of pandering is stronger than Biden's diaper, or maybe they smell the same.
I assume that many are offended, but they will still vote for the party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow and the eternal plantation, but I'm betting that this time more than ever will finally see the light and cut those chains. What do you got to lose. The Dems just spent weeks cheering the burning down of your neighborhoods, your businesses, your future, and trying to convince everyone that you are so helpless only they can save you. Republicans will expect you to do the heavy lifting, but they won't be expecting you to do it for them. Democrats are destroying all your hard work while telling you they are on your side. They want to turn your world into a hellhole of crime and stagnation, or at the least, they don't care if they do, as long as they can make you dependent. Grab what is yours: equal footing, equal responsibility, equal freedom, equal rights. Use your vote - don't waste it.
Funny . . . she doesn't look shrewish; but seriously, a handsome family.
It will give me an extra frisson to not vote for Biden/Harris!
Narr
The long wait is over
So noble of her. I fear I shall swoon!
But wait ... her ancestors were slavers! My ancestors weren't slavers. WTF!
They are clearly concerned that voters won't trust a politician who has no children.
Democratic women used to joke that George HW Bush reminded every woman of her first husband. Now the women of America get to vote for their ex's second wife who thinks she knows how to raise their kids.
She can’t be evil, someone loves her.
Oh. My. God.
Repeal the 19th already.
Some new beloveds?
Look how white they both seem in that picture. Why, it's almost like Kamala Harris has no African heritage at all!
John Henry
When I read that , tears came to my eyes..
It's a nice thing to say, and quite possibly sincere.
It has absolutely nothing to do with being president. This is a Women's Vote PR move.
The kids look fine and present a welcome contrast to Hunter Biden. I don't know why anyone, not even Miles Davis, would want to name their kid after John Coltrane. The story sounds hokey...He's a big league Hollywood entertainment lawyer. I wonder who some of his clients were. If he were married to a Republican VP candidate, I'm sure we'd hear all sorts of stories, but omertia is in effect.....They look like an attractive couple, and I'm glad to hear that she's found love and happiness. The pairing is somewhat atypical. As a couple, it doesn't look like their life has been bereft of privilege. I wonder if that hurts or helps her with black voters, especially single black mothers.
Women love perfect families.
sunsong (channeling Inga): "congrats to Kamala, fist African-American VP nominee"
First Jamaican-Indian slave-holding-family VP nominee.
Fixed it for you.
"Pragmatic Moderate", per NY Times
Scott Adams thought viewer campaign slogan
Joe Blow 2020
was funny.
The other side of the perfect family narrative.
The lady gives blow jobs to helpful politicians.
Married to white devil? Hell no.
Australia ABC news interviews a black female reporter in Florida who is thrilled with the Kamala Harris choice. She feels very good about it. And Harris is really really qualified.
The reporter herself acts white, only lacking the Australian accent, and as articulate as anybody.
Talks a lot about what's in Kamala's heart.
A long preview of the talking points for the white woman vote.
The Norman Rockwell look. How touching. Should play well in Middle America.
Not.
You know, you don't have to comment.
So the first black president had a white mom who raised him without much involvement from his black father, and the first black female VP candidate has a white husband and was raised by her Indian mother.
The pattern here is the absence of a black male in their lives.
This may explain why it supposedly took weeks for Biden to make up his mind, even though everyone knew that Kamala was one of very few available choices, given the "black women only" promise:
I'm guessing it took two weeks for Kamala to convince Biden (I mean Jill, of course) to sign a binding contract that her husband and step-children would be kept a minimum of 30' away from every member of the Biden family - including Joe and especially, but not solely, Hunter - for the duration of the campaign and any ensuing inauguration and presidency.
She is a nasty piece of work, as even Willie can attest.
DAMN! that pic has GOTTA REALLY HELP pull in the black vote!!!
Nothing, and i mean NOTHING says; i'm a Black VP Candidate, like
being Hindu
being married to a white guy
being married to a white JEW guy
have white step kids
sucking dicks, ALL THE WAY to the Top
I guess Biden helped Hunter get those big money deals with Ukraine and China because there's nothing worse than disappointing a child.
Odd that she never married before the age 50, and no one talks about engagements or boyfriends before then. Given Woody Allen gave his kids the names of Blacks Sports/Jazz stars you wonder if that's some sort of Jewish thing.
A typical gold digger love story.
In 2014 she was running for re-election to CA Attorney General and also preparing to run for Senate when Boxer retired. Wonder if being Single was hurting her politically, so she got hitched. Democrats do that kind of thing. Bill and Hillary probably would've never married - or stayed married - if Bill hadn't wanted to be Governor of Arkansas and President.
If you like conspiracy theories, here's another one:
What connects these three facts?
1. It took weeks longer than promised, and weeks longer than it should have, for Biden to announce his running mate.
2. His choice turned out to be someone named Kamala Harris.
3. Just two days before, a professional wrestler named James "Kamala" Harris - not just a second Kamala, but a second Kamala Harris! - died. I'd never heard of him, but he was apparently a big, big name in professional wrestling, so millions of Americans knew of him, and many of them loved him, since he was apparently a thoroughly decent human being when off-duty.
What can we conclude from these three facts? Obviously Biden or his handlers (*cough* Jill *cough*) heard that there was another Kamala Harris, thought this would be way too confusing for simple-minded wrestling-fan voters, and told she-Kamala to "take care of" the situation. Since he-Kamala, though 70 years old, was 6'7" and 380 pounds and was one of the very few humans ever to body-slam André the Giant, it took a few weeks for her to find someone who could "take care" of him and make it look like natural causes.
Note to any QAnonsters reading: this is a (rather tasteless) joke! Do not treat it as fact or even possibility!
When I read this in Wikipedia, I almost regretted never following professional wrestling: "Nicknamed 'The Ugandan Giant', Kamala portrayed a fearsome and simpleminded Ugandan who wrestled barefoot in war paint and a loincloth, and approached the ring wearing an African mask and carrying a spear and shield." Some of the Google images are a real hoot.
If we elect Biden, we'll end up with a lot of firsts:
First POTUS to ever resign due to ill health or senility,
Then:
First POTUS to be a woman or 1/2 Hindu
First man to be "First Gentleman" and Jewish.
First POTUS to have no natural born kids since Warren Harding.
No way urban Black folks (real Black folks, Al Sharpton/whatshizfez Farrakhan/Crack Emcee Black folks) look at that photo and see much to identify with. It looks like a BLM riot.
The problem with Identity politics is that it narrows where, perhaps once upon a time, it meant to broaden.
Now Joe's quoting the Koran/Quran in his attempt to garner Muslim votes. Hirsi Ali was on Tucker, sharing her naive hope that the Dims will backtrack.
Narr
As if
Why am I awake? Nuts.
Anyway, I found out recently that at least one of my ancestors owned slaves too.
Ventura de los Reyes y Sanchez, Philippine representative to the Cortes of Cadiz in 1810, and a signer of the first Spanish constitution ( "La Pepa"), owned three slaves while living in Cadiz, two were apparently blacks from Lima, Peru (of the same community whence Saint Martin de Porres, and of George Zimmermans mother), and the other of unknown origins acquired in Manila.
So I have that in common with K.Harris. Though in her case it was more recently and in much larger numbers being as her ancestor owned a substantial Jamaican plantation in the 1830s.
An interesting point is that George Zimmermann of Trayvon Martin fame is about as black as Kamala Harris.
She’s a whore.
@sunsong, as an Indian-American, I can tell you that's offensive to call Kamala African-American.
He has a history of fetishizing African-Americans.
JOE and the HOE
(stolen, of course)
Look how white they both seem in that picture.
People first, Stand against diversity. #BabyLivesMatter
Poor kids.
"Look how white they both seem in that picture. Why, it's almost like Kamala Harris has no African heritage at all!"
Beige Lives Matter.
This picture won't go over well in the Black community. We're not supposed to talk about this.
She chose her career and lust for power rather than building a family of her own. Its not relatable for a ton of women.
She comes... came across as feminist. Perhaps she acquired wisdom with her age.
Harris is half-Jamaican, half-Indian (dot not feather)-American. She grew up in Berkeley, and then she spent several years in Canada as a teen. Her husband is white. She is not an authentic example of the black experience in America.
Funny how after 4 years we don't have one nice article about Melania...but suddenly Marie Claire has a gushing article about Kamala. Wait for Vogue to do a series on her fashion sense...they are so predictable. Anyone who falls for this junk....
Here we go!
"There’s nothing worse than disappointing a child."
Ah, ain't she sweet. So we see how this is gonna be played.
But I noticed no children in politics tag. Althouse normally is pretty sensitive to the political manipulation of children. Not here. Still neutral?
"Hell, no, I don't want to meet your kids! Wait until they're grown up and not so damn snivvely and whiny and messy! Can't they just stay with their mom?!"
I'm not even following this news.
Married to Douglas Emhoff.
Backed by former President Obama.
Chosen good enough by Republicans, and approved by former Vice President Biden.
Loosely called a Camelion per Inga Jr.
A more so liberal per Candolina Rice paving the way to a career more sound than retreating to a tenure at a University post politics. If Mrs. Hillary Clinton is still evil, well, the Conservatives are making Mrs. Harris' job too easy.
Make her grow horns !
I need to use the toilet.
"Why am I awake?"
Don't mess w/ Doc Mike's job here. He's in charge of telling these threads when it's sleepy time. Folks don't call him Sleepy Mike for nuttin.
Speaking of "Nuts."
Again, we all have our rolls here. Back off Doc Mike's turf.
I'm not Joe Biden's boy, and apparently I ain't black because I'm not voting for the demented one, but I'm a actual descendant of African slaves brought to this nation. I'll admit my vote makes me a small minority of a minority.
Kamala is not.
As I've stated before, at the very least, Obama pretended to care and lived in Hyde Park, the whitest part of the South Side and married a black woman.
Kamala does not even pretend to care and married a white guy. Lived in white Berkeley, even whiter Canada, and now the whitest of all areas in LA.
I'll admit my vote makes me a small minority of a minority. But those thoughts of Kamala are not a small minority of a minority, as evidenced by her primary showing.
Great bunch of commenters you've curated, AA.
I think its a BFD this woman never had kids of her own. She has no skin in the game (or soul in the game as Nassim Taleb would say). She chose her career and lust for power rather than building a family of her own. Its not relatable for a ton of women.
Maybe she couldn't find someone as ugly as Webb Hubbell?
Kurt Cobain was murdered to show if you don't let them rule, you will die. Even if world famous and extremely richly influential on the culture that still shapes the world but is a receding culture nonetheless.
Only amongst* men Donald Trump has fully understood this, juncturewise [or juncture-wise as you like] now can be, as always, good or bad. Thinking about such matters gives power, often comfortably with men in suits smoking cigars in dark rooms but much more often in the ridiculous courts of prog law America is suffering through temporarily.
*Among the dead many knew/know of course OED
eadering said...
Great bunch of commenters you've curated, AA.
Unlike lefty blogs she does not black those who disagree and does not delete their comments. You prefer the bubble.
anti-de Sitter space said...
"Why am I awake?"
Don't mess w/ Doc Mike's job here. He's in charge of telling these threads when it's sleepy time. Folks don't call him Sleepy Mike for nuttin.
Speaking of "Nuts."
Again, we all have our rolls here. Back off Doc Mike's turf.
Get help.
"Great bunch of commenters you've curated, AA."
Althouse has taken away something that always made me chuckle.
The process would be to read (technically skim, fast) through the comments. Then, get to the bottom to possibly comment. And there it was. In it's glory and absurdness. The disclaimer re comments are moderated to get rid of trolls that are bad for the blog.
IOW, the comments I'd just read were certified by Althouse (where tons of my comments have been deleted before folks could read them). It was always super funny. Hopefully this current disclaimer will go back to the one that indicates I'm often a POS, but the stuff that gets through from others here is top notch certified AOK by Althouse.
The sooner, the better.
IMHO.
Well...I'm not undecided and I'm not a moderate and I really don't like the Democratic Party but still I find all this talk of Harris being a "whore" kind of irritating. I suspect that many people are going to be likewise repelled.
I don't think this is a winning message.
It doesn't matter that Trump was treated badly for equivalent or even lessor sins. Life isn't fair. We all know that. Women aren't measured by the same standards as men.
I think it's a good idea to bring up her relationship with Willie Brown and the fact that she was his girlfriend, or something like that, when she got her start in politics, but not to call her a whore.
"Why am I awake? Nuts.
Anyway, I found out recently that at least one of my ancestors owned slaves too.
Ventura de los Reyes y Sanchez, Philippine representative to the Cortes of Cadiz in 1810, and a signer of the first Spanish constitution ( "La Pepa"), owned three slaves while living in Cadiz, two were apparently blacks from Lima, Peru (of the same community whence Saint Martin de Porres, and of George Zimmermans mother), and the other of unknown origins acquired in Manila.
So I have that in common with K.Harris. Though in her case it was more recently and in much larger numbers being as her ancestor owned a substantial Jamaican plantation in the 1830s.
An interesting point is that George Zimmermann of Trayvon Martin fame is about as black as Kamala Harris."
I don't read. I don't listen to other people. I don't shower. My teeth are fucked. Soon I will be cleaning an RV sewer backed up.
So don't take anything I say serious. But the man and comment I quoted is heaven to American ears. It won't be civil war, it will be statists feeling their philosophy. Most of us will be good. Some of us will suffer.
Choose life.
"Great bunch of commenters you've curated, AA."
Sarah Palin knows this attack.
She had to have her son attack her too after he served George Bush's globalists.
Extremely sad.
Brighter days ahead, guaranteed.
Kevin W.
Joe Biden has named his 2020 running mate: authoritarianism.
American prosecutors wield awesome and terrible powers that lend themselves easily to abuse, and Senator Kamala Harris, formerly the attorney general of California, is an enthusiastic abuser of them.
""Why am I awake?"
Don't mess w/ Doc Mike's job here. He's in charge of telling these threads when it's sleepy time. Folks don't call him Sleepy Mike for nuttin.
Speaking of "Nuts."
Again, we all have our rolls here. Back off Doc Mike's turf."
You make me feel better about me than I ever thought I possibly could, just because as an American (like Orson prime pronounced it) being attacked this way shows we have already won 6 ways from those sun days where you live shittily.
At this point rather than beg you for dough, I'd pay you to keep opening that panglossian jabberer.
Does blowing an African-American make you an African-American?
It's like that one song where she's all "you prolly dink his dong is about you dong you" or someting?
It goes on like " you prolly dink his dong is about you dong you dong you" or sometnhing?
Right?
Issnt that accureate?
Where is the mass entertainment complex to let us know what is real and what is fake? Who would know Carley Simon from Carl Sagan? "Teachers" are striking so can't answer if the unions are representative of a very, very strong and powerful group of thugs.
Nice family photo! Nothing screams "Fight the Power!" more than 3 Caucasian Emhoffs and a Jamaican Hindu.
"""Years before meeting [Kamala] Harris, [Douglas] Emhoff was married to a woman named Kerstin, and they had two children together: Cole (after jazz saxophonist John Coltrane)...""
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Not much subtility 'round this a here Althouse blog no more.
"As I've stated before, at the very least, Obama pretended to care and lived in Hyde Park, the whitest part of the South Side and married a black woman."
Oh, no one ever said he hadn't paid his dues. Seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth is one thing, but marrying that glowering harpy required a calculated abnegation amounting almost to disinterest.
His daughter is very tall.
Inside information from K.Harris career as DA in San Francisco, etc.
She has been in my stamping grounds for decades.
As a manager she has always been a nullity.
Not hands-on in any way. An empty suit. A chair warmer. A place-filler.
They may as well run a cardboard cutout.
Dr Weevil said...
If you like conspiracy theories, here's another one:
What connects these three facts?
1. It took weeks longer than promised, and weeks longer than it should have, for Biden to announce his running mate.
2. His choice turned out to be someone named Kamala Harris.
I've got a mild conspiracy theory. Remember that wacky tv appearance she did around when Lewis croaked? Remember how funny she looked? Well, maybe she had plastic surgery or some kind of work done about then, and Biden held off on nominating her until she had healed and the work was pronounced a success. If her doctor had botched it, perhaps Biden would have selected someone else.
anti-de Sitter space said...
"Why am I awake?"
Don't mess w/ Doc Mike's job here. He's in charge of telling these threads when it's sleepy time. Folks don't call him Sleepy Mike for nuttin.
Speaking of "Nuts."
Again, we all have our rolls here. Back off Doc Mike's turf.
8/11/20, 9:20 PM
That reminds me, adSs. You owe me about ten grand for your incessant overuse of the word I so fatefully taught you, "jabber." Since you profess to have a lot of money, prove it. Pay me a buck for every time you've used the word here.
If Ella Fitzgerald had married Darth Vader she could have been Ella Vader!
That one killed in third grade...
Caring about someone else’s kids is a good quality. If Harris’ explanation of her thought processes is true, then it makes her look better. But still, if this is the material they’ve chosen to work with first, then trying to humanize her is going to be a hard slog.
Why is she wearing a jacket when the others are dressed for summer? And what’s that preppy insignia on her jacket?
A jacket over a sweater, no less.
buwaya said...I found out recently that at least one of my ancestors owned slaves too.
Until recently, slave societies were the norm. All of us are descended from slaves owners. But don’t feel bad, all of us are descended from slaves too. All of us.
She's not married to a POC transgender??? How dare she misuse marriage to marry a white dude??? She's not progressive enough.
Sarah Palin did send a tweet to Kamala. As always, Sarah was nice...and gave her some good advice (which she won't take) https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/12/sarah-palin-offers-kamala-harris-advice-for-vp-campaign-trail/
I get a daily email from the NYT. Today's includes an explainer for Harris that includes this gem:
Harris’s experience and pragmatism sync with Biden’s political style. Her ideological flexibility also matches his recent openness to more left-leaning economic and racial-justice policies amid the pandemic and protests over police violence.
"Ideological flexibility"? Is that what the cool kids are calling it?
First humanizing detail about Harris that actually makes me feel positive about her personally.
Back during the primary, the only thing I wanted for Harris was to see her humiliated by coming in behind Tulsi Gabbard, and I more or less got what I wanted so that is settled.
I look forward to the "Jill Biden is Joe's biggest Supporter" articles.
I find these articles about male political spouses very off-putting. It's like the writer expects the default to be: Woman is not politician.
Has Kamala Harris' wiki page been completely scrubbed of all wrongdoings, including past edits, yet? How much of an angel does Wikipedia say she is?
(I'm not going there, because the last time I went and saw the changes, it made me sick that propaganda in support of the democrats is so pervasive).
I love it that they are hauling out Barack's "pragmatism" descriptor for Kamala. So hilarious.
I have no idea why idiot adss turned on me. I do not read his/her comments nor do I respond since I don't know what they were.
As usual the lefty idiots think someone pays attention to what they post.
Mandrewa said...
I don't think this is a winning message.
It doesn't matter that Trump was treated badly for equivalent or even lessor sins. Life isn't fair. We all know that. Women aren't measured by the same standards as men.
I think it's a good idea to bring up her relationship with Willie Brown and the fact that she was his girlfriend, or something like that, when she got her start in politics, but not to call her a whore.
I hear you, some modicum of taste or delicacy is best, but the great problem of the age is that harsh truths may not be said (iokiyad).
Kamala Harris is an actual, literal whore. A strumpet, a doxy. The kindest thing you could call her is "mistress" which assumes facts not in evidence, like a certain degree of emotional connection.
She took political influence for sex. She took money for sex. That is a whore. High-class? Deserving of euphemism? You be the judge.
Her conduct, aside from being deeply immoral, was pretty arguably a betrayal of the public trust, a form of sexual misconduct in office (in that such favors were not on offer to women who did not perform unnatural acts on the married Willie Brown), and an artificial aggrandizement beyond her merits.
It is blameworthy and worth mentioning often. She got where she is on her back/knees. Some history maker.
It is blameworthy and worth mentioning often. She got where she is on her back/knees. Some history maker.
She also wasn't very good at it, if that counts for anything.
It is blameworthy and worth mentioning often. She got where she is on her back/knees. Some history maker.
She also wasn't very good at it, if that counts for anything.
Named their kids for jazz singers,eh?
Imagine the possibilities if they were rap fans (when not stoned).
Come here little Tupac and bring your sister NWA.
"ideological flexibility"
Clown nose on,clown nose off.
Don't listen to what I say on the campaign trail. For the love of God don't check out my record. Pretend I really believe whatever you wish a President/VP would believe.
Biden's gonna need a step stool to sniff Kamala's step-daughter's hair.
Will her Jewish husband cost her votes with all the anti-semitit, anti-Israel leftists?
“When Emhoff and Harris hit it off, the future attorney general was initially very wary of the idea of meeting his kids because she knew just how important they were to him.”
If she was so concerned she might not have broken up their parents’ marriage to begin with.
A normal person with Harris's past would be too ashamed to be this public, but she made a sacrifice, and she's gonna cash it in. Hey girls, that's what we call real moxie, or a lot of spunk, if you will.
They look like nice kids, but I won't vote for their stepmother under any circumstances whatsoever.
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