Pressed about how she's changed many of her positions, Harris said:
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.... You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed – and I have worked on it – that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”...
Are there deadlines "around" things other than time?
“My values have not changed. So that is the reality of it. And four years of being vice president, I’ll tell you, one of the aspects, to your point, is traveling the country extensively.... I believe it is important to build consensus, and it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems.”
The values don't change. This is the rhetorical move to abstraction. Everything can be coordinated if you go to a high enough level of generality. There's a limit to how often you can seek refuge in unspecified "values." And you may end up in a "consensus" of nothing.
The article presents it as significant that she agreed that she "would" when Bash brought up the prospect of choosing one Republican to serve on her cabinet. Bash also brought up "Trump’s assertion, made last month at a conference for Black journalists, that she had altered her racial identity over time." Harris brushed off the issue: "Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please."
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18 minutes. I wonder how long the raw footage was for them to come up with 18 minutes of usable material. When Bash was done asking that question, she fed Harris some possible answers. I suppose it’s to her credit that she didn’t use them, but she probably should have.
Did Walz say or do anything? Or did he sit there the whole time looking like her minder?
18 minutes. I wonder how long the raw footage was for them to come up with 18 minutes of usable material. When Bash was done asking that question, she fed Harris some possible answers. I suppose it’s to her credit that she didn’t use them, but she probably should have.
Did Walz say or do anything? Or did he sit there the whole time looking like her minder?
"that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics"
few moments later
" And four years of being vice president, I’ll tell you, one of the aspects, to your point, is traveling the country extensively.... I believe it is important to build consensus"
Not very urgent for her to cut back travelling extensively.
"Values are things that we value, and values can change or they can stay the same. What's important is that my values have not changed, which to me is more valuable than values that have changed. We must secure a future where we can change our values or not change them, like I have."
- The Wonder Woman of Word Salad
Maybe she can bag Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger.
Walter Kirn wonders if Trump is being set up by his enemies to be reelected.
Walter Kirn wonders if Trump is being set up by his enemies to be reelected.
What does that even mean
"My values have not changed."
I believe that. As soon as she's in the White House she'll be back to banning fracking, banning IC-cars, and an open border.
So she said a bunch of words, but really said nothing concrete. Got it. Nothing new.
Love Walter!
To be fair...
The Biden-Harris team could have gotten A LOT More done.. IF they had won the election.
There's Only SO MUCH you can accomplish without voter support
Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry)? Same old.
She subscribes to the religion of selectivity and opportunism. Her values haven't changed. Next!
There's precisely zero reason to believe that the cabal currently running the government gives a damn what Biden thinks (LOL) now, or what Harris will think next year. Her values are irrelevant.
Her "values" could be nothing more than "I want what's best for the American people."
What she means seems pretty obvious: I've been told by pollsters that admitting that I want open borders, banning fracking and EV mandates might cost me the election in swing states. But if I squeak out a victory, I will in fact continue all those policies (after all my values haven't changed). I'm sure even the dimmest Democrat wits get that. This is why you don't hear the slightest protest about her "changed" positions from Warren, Bernie, the Greens or anyone else on the Left.
Dodging questions is Politics 101 in the same way dodging punches is Boxing 101. Kamala Harris somehow rose to within one step of the presidency without learning this basic skill, but the fact that she managed to dodge these two questions indicates she’s been working really really hard the past few weeks. She’ll no doubt wilt under real pressure, which makes it imperative to minimize the number of difficult questions she receives between now and election day.
"CNN will not provide a transcript of the raw interview."
I bet.
"This is why you don't hear the slightest protest about her "changed" positions from Warren, Bernie, the Greens or anyone else on the Left."
Good observation.
This woman is a fucking liar. Of course she will ram the Green New Deal down the throats of the American people because none other than Goldman Sachs wrote that there is $1.3 trillion in free federal money.
I’m watching her 1st rally since the DNC and ah’m lovin’ this Georjah accent she’s affecting. So genuine. I… I… I say, ah do declayuh!
From the preview she’s speaking in complete sentences. I bet it took a week…
https://x.com/Kredo0/status/1829222911716274622
As expected, an 18 minute, after copious editing I imagine, campaign ad. BTW, she keeps referring to herself as a "prosecutor" yet I can find no confirmation she's ever personally prosecuted a case in an actual courtroom.
If Walz was asked a question, the only one that should have been asked is "why are you here?"
Her "values" could be nothing more than "I want what's best for the American people."
Or, "I would really value getting through this fucked-up interview and cracking open a new box of white riesling".
I value concise answers over vague, meaningless drivel.
Well that would honest on her part
"We must secure a future where we can change our values or not change them, like I have, and that's best done through the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children."
Professor Irwin Corey would be so proud,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsdRGbQPr0
Or "I do what's necessary to get ahead."
Me thinks Kammalot has over thought this. Which is a Hindu trait. They want all possible options available to them forever so they can chose the best way out forever. But to the art of the deal man that is a refusal to make a deal.
Her values and value have not changed. Same old empty airhead who speaks babblealot.
The Dems should be embarrassed (I know, not a reasonable ask) by this "interview". Friendly network, friendly interviewer, not solo, not live.
At this point the Dem party is just camouflage for the team actually operating the government.
"Harris explains in exclusive CNN interview why she’s shifted her position on key issues since her first run for president."
I read the article and found no explanation for her changes -- only repealed statements about what hasn't changed.
"I want what's best for the American people."
Her actions say something entirely different. Are going to believe what she says or what she does?
"I know what's best for the American people - whether they want it or not."
Althouse: "Her "values" could be nothing more than "I want what's best for the American people."
Perhaps better stated: Her values could be nothing more than "I want what's currently best for me."
“I believe it is important to build consensus,” says the woman whose administration three times failed to buy votes by forgiving student debt — only to be reversed by the courts — without even once trying to work with Congress to do it legally.
Her "values" could be nothing more than "I want what's best for the American people."
More like, "I know what's best for the American people, and I'm bound and determined to shove it down their throats."
Isn’t Tulsi Gabbard a Hindu?
I think she's about 1/8 African Jamaican. Isn't she stealing African American privilege? Like Rachel Dolezal did.
Tim is there in case anything needs to be signed.
These are my values, if you don't like them, then I have other values. I'm unburden by what has been.
"I want what's best for the American People...as I define it"
her statements make that wishful thinking. or like the way people wanted to believe that obama was a savior. harris has been clear=she wants to take guns, raise taxes, deny gas cars and trucks. Yeah, that's best for america
Of course her values have not changed. She values power and will do or say anything to get it.
I have worried about a "poisoned chalice" election.
His contributions are in the edited part.
Harris could win, as empty headed as she is-feminists value abortion 'reproductive health,' over anything. the same women who were scared senseless by the covid bringers, want to 'sanctify' the right to kill babies. A national right.
the rest of the stuff, mostly communist style government, does't both liberal white women, because they think they are to special to suffer.
oh, and her 'values' are the same ones she employed with willie brown all those years ago. you know, lyiing about biden being sharp, promoting and financing riots like blm in 2020. Putting non vax people in camps. She is corrupt and useable, that is her value to who ever is running this crap show now.
My values have not changed, either. I'll be watching football and checking in to catch up when they're done.
Gracious. Early season college ball is an adventure.
Glenn Greenwald: "Kamala didn't even remotely pretend she was explaining why the things she pretended to believe when running in 2020 are now things she pretends she no longer believes."
"And from all appearances, there was zero attempt to insist an on answer."
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"My values have not changed."
Maybe that's Kamala speak for distancing herself from Bidenomic inflation.
I believe her when she says 'My values have not changed', because her values - as well as her potential future policy decisions - have nothing whatsoever to do with whatever she is saying at the moment, in order to get elected.
"Bash also brought up "Trump’s assertion, made last month at a conference for Black journalists, that she had altered her racial identity over time." Harris brushed off the issue: "Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please."
Word salad and non-answers, even in the friendly confines of CNN, with her emotional support man at hand. I thought a woman needed a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Looks like the kamala-la-la-la non-interview "interview" was a bomb since New Soviet Democratical Inga is already in Full Deflection Mode!
LOL
And right on top of the collapse of the latest pathetic hoax (re:Arlington Cemetery) on top of the moron Nate Silver model (I dont buy into that never explained black box) shifting 10 points in a week (that doesnt ever really happen) to show Trump winning? Its been a tough week for Inga.
She can still comfort herself with the knowledge that her "spark of Divinity" illegal alien gang members are taking over apartment complexes in Denver and terroizing US citizens at the same time they are trying to board school busses with young children in San Diego.
If that doesn't brighten Inga's day, nothing will!...short of "Honorable" Joe Biden showering with another young female family member.
Why didn't kamala-la-la-la use her totally authentic southern black grrrrrl "accent" with Bash?
Huh?
She is just plain dumb. Never had a job in the real world for a reason.
Amadeus 48
"Walter Kirn wonders if Trump is being set up by his enemies to be reelected. "
Walter Kirn is the genius who thinks Archie Bunker was a bus driver.
Joe that's just not true. For a while she was a Deputy DA in Alameda County, slugging it out in the courts of Oakland. That said she was also Willie Brown's main squeeze at the time so she was a little more "equal" than the others--who weren't smoking Willie's pole. Then she moved over to San Francisco where she was duking it out with Kimberly Guilfoyle for the slot as San Francisco District Attorney. Now our Kimberly was poking Gavin Newsom at the time (I won't bother evaluating either Kimberly or Kamala on the slut of meter) but Kamala prevailed. She was a better politician than Guilfoyle. Still whether you are District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco or Attorney General for the State of California, you are an administrator. And you don't get your hands dirty with actual work.
The small handful of women I have discussed this with have uniformly been focused on abortion, and been unwilling to be specific about any limitations, up to delivery.
This single issue is their touchstone for how to vote.
Drago, Reddit (yeah, I know) is aflame over the Arlington issue, and the critical Army letter. Where's any "collapse" being documented?
Dana Bash is the CIA. She is an embed in the media and CNN is an arm of the government.
Are there vids or reports of Harris constant laughing prior to being vice-president?
Is this something new brought on by pressures of the job, or has she always been a joyous, happy-go-lucky person?
Are you ok Drago? Seriously, you don’t sound ok.
Just caught about 20 seconds of the interview. Body language is terrible. She looks like the little kid at the Big Kids table.
Did you take your evening meds Inga? I worry that you will go full manic soon.
I may have to reconsider my thoughts that you are less dumb than Kamala-lala-ding-dong. It is a close call.
We all know she’s not presidential material. Why do we have to pretend otherwise? She’s the incumbent VP and we have seen 3.7 years of her failures of leadership and lack of any accomplishment. I’m so done with this pretense.
Here we go again, eh Mutaman? Say - why don't you put together a little comedy routine, kind of like 'Who's on First' and we can recycle it every time Kirn's name gets mentioned.
'The Honeymooners is over', that's kind of catchy, isn't it ?
Aside, Harris looks pretty small and meek on CNN, sound off.
What was Walz there for again?
just to recap...
O'Bama picked Biden as "impeachment protection", 'cause NO ONE would Dare get rid of O'Bama when it'd mean Biden would be Pres...
Biden picked Harris as "impeachment protection", 'cause NO ONE would Dare get rid of Biden when it'd mean Harris would be Pres...
Now..
Harris picked Walz Drug as "impeachment protection", 'cause NO ONE would Dare get rid of Harris when it'd mean Walz would be Pres...
GOD HELP US ALL
Watched the interview; such as it was. The first third, Bash was fairly good but then it degraded to something People magazine would do. But, man, Kamela is really dumb and not a good liar.
Found on X:
Kamala is clearly reading notes for many questions from @DanaBashCNN.
Why is this important?
She had the questions prior to this interview, crafted notes with staff/experts, and is still struggling.
This is hard to watch. Wow.
He's her ESWM (Emotional Support White Man. Like her husband)
John Henry
You mean getting back to blowing powerful men to get ahead, right? That's her "values."
Or "hey, if you advance my career, I'll suck your dick."
How come CNN gets to edit videos and James O'Keefe doesn't?
”My values have not changed.”
That may be because her only values are that she wants to win the election and will say whatever it takes to win. If — God help us — she does win then expect her to change her policies right back to what they were.
“All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."
Quoth Chauncey Gardner...
She sounded drinky
Yeah, I want to hear from some defense attorneys that have gone up against her in court. I bet she plea bargained any cases she handled.
Kimberly Klacik
@kimKBaltimore
"Kamala is clearly reading notes for many questions from @DanaBashCNN
Why is this important?
She had the questions prior to this interview, crafted notes with staff/experts, and is still struggling.
This is hard to watch. Wow."
CNN wont release the full transcript. The copy and paste warriors are SOL.
But they accept that.
Interesting observation from body language expert, Kamala nods her head when unsure of herself, or when making a false statement. As if agreeing with herself as she pontificates. Bobblehead
Restocking the tampon machine in the men's room.
Did she really say that? Or is it a joke?
I told you she was as dumb as dogshit but without the dementia excuse.
Fortunately for her, nobody watches CNN.
Supposedly Maya Rudolph is considering coming back to SNL this season to play Kackula. This could be good.
"Are you ok Drago? Seriously, you don’t sound ok."
Inga thinks I am not "okay", and not "honorable, because I wont shower with young female family members.
Sorry Inga. I am simply not willing to do that to gain your "respect", such as it is.
Such is the sickness of New Soviet Democratical Inga.
Fred, the New Soviet Democraticals are astroturfing the Arlington Cemetery hoax on social media but the jig is already up with the real back story (Trump's photographer was approved to be there) as well as bidens 2020 televised ad showing him in Section 60 of Arlington Nat. Cemetery.
There is no groundswell of military member responses against Trump. Quote the opposite given the horrific treatment of these families by biden and harris.
I thought this interview was supposed to be all about America's dad.
Althouse: "Her "values" could be nothing more than "I want what's best for the American people."
Perhaps better stated: Her values could be nothing more than "I want what's currently best for me."
Preemptively commenting on anyone who might say that any politician would do the same... explain how Trump's running for President again, especially after knowing what they did to him the first time, is benefiting him.
Let me be clear: I don't consider Trump a moral exemplar. And I don't think that he's always right about what will benefit Americans the most.
But it's quite the uphill battle to claim that he's out to enrich or aggrandize himself by running for or being President - and we actually have the evidence of his first term to draw on.
You could be forgiven for thinking that.
18 minutes. The famous gap in the Watergate tape was longer. That's ALL the time a presidential candidate can find to talk (for free) to the American electorate? It's insulting really.
My takeaways from the Kamala Harris interview
1. I watched on CNN on YouTube. The comments on all 3 segments were 100% negative. I scrolled pretty far down on each segment. Not 1 positive comment.
2. Visually, it was a mistake to put Grumpy Old Man closest to the camera. What were they thinking?
So Harris is being questioned about position changes on such things as fracking and Dana Bash's inane question about what she thinks about Trump's claim that Kamala just became black.
However, Donald Trump has still never been asked by the press, much less answered, how he plans to fulfill his promise of mass deportations, something that might be impossible without dramatic escalation of police force against both citizens and immigrants. Further, he hasn’t been asked how he’ll pay for it, which would be prohibitively expensive. He hasn’t been asked who will do the jobs, such as in agriculture, that keep America’s cost of living relatively low. He hasn’t been asked if he’ll separate families when he deports tens of millions of brown folks. Raising tariffs won't help with rising consumer prices and corporations operating farms will get more subsidies.
Trump hasn’t been asked the most basic questions about one of his only policy promises for 2025 - likely because the press knows he has no finite plans that would provide answers.
The fact the she and Waltz have the percentages they do in polling show how far gone this country is.
Irwin Corey clip was precious! How far we have fallen.
That is extremely unusual for a presidential candidate when the entire interview is assumed to be on the record. This is the confirmation that CNN is working for Harris not for the news value of the interview, so not in the public interest.
This is the point where an actual journalist would have listed the legislation Harris sponsored as a Senator and the actual actions she took in the role of AG for California and DA in San Francisco. This was Bash’s opportunity to present Harris with the challenge of rectifying her “unchanging values” with her record and her rhetoric.
Conclusion. Bash is more Democrat operative than journalist. She wouldn’t let that go unasked with Trump and did not with Vance. Holding the transcript back is confirmation of my conclusion.
Certainly would be nice to know, Tim.
According to people who watched the interview Harris appeared to be reading her answers which raises a whole other set of questions.
Walz responded to, but didn’t go near answering, questions from Bash. The ones posed to Walz seemed to be a bit more sharply worded than the ones for Harris.
I think Althouse means that is the bar she needed to cross by simply saying those words, yet Harris couldn’t achieve that very low bar.
Harris is a super polluter!
But they’re no, so you know…
Trump has been President and we know how he manages the policies you mention. Perhaps you were too overcome by the lie that he was a Russian agent to pay attention to reality.
"Further, he hasn’t been asked how he’ll pay for it, which would be prohibitively expensive.'
They're already costing us over $450 billion a year by being here.The cost to remove them would be relatively small compared to the billions they are costing us now and well into the future.
"I want what's best for the American people." I'm gonna bet that it includes higher taxes, gun control, open boarders and censorship.
America doesn't need a dad. You might. But most of the rest of us are adults.
That's Kamala speak to the left to reassure them that she's still a socialist.
" Further, he hasn’t been asked how he’ll pay for it, which would be prohibitively expensive. " ICE and boarder patrol aren't doing anything now so it's a wash.
Your last paragraph presumes that the press is covering up for Trump when nothing can be further from the truth.
Use of the phrase "deadlines around time" should disqualify her for the presidency, and Trump should just replay that sound bite. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to anyone who is not an elitist phony.
Heh. One of my all-time favorites.
they only need them for the census and then they’ll be done with them. Not that they’ll stop the money flowing, it will just flow to somewhere else…like Santa Barbara real estate…
they only need them for the census and then they’ll be done with them. Not that they’ll stop the money flowing, it will just flow to somewhere else…like Santa Barbara real estate…
According to leftie Twitter (and Aaron Rupar if you want a good laugh), Kamala absolutely killed it in the interview! She is going to demolish Trump at their debate. Me, I'm not seeing it that way...
Amen. That’s what I fear most.
It was about America's Dad. He was playing the strong silent type. His presence was enough, the gravity!
The ones they want to deport are not at the border anymore Rusty, they have been flung far and wide throughout the United States. They're not going to pull border guards off the line on a wild goose chase in the hinterlands
She already provided the tie-breaking vote for it under the title they pushed year one.
Funny how when there's tiny 2 point bump for Kamala Nate Silver is the pollster of the year but when it swings way back hard 10 points in Trump's favor Inga doesn't even know who Nate is suddenly. How unexpected.
IDK. Do "joyous, happy-go-lucky" people call their opponents nazis and lie about everything? That sounds more like sociopathic behavior than "joyous, happy-go-lucky" traits. I saw the furrows on her face when the subject of Biden came up. That was stress, or regret. Either way, not happy, not joyous. Even her cackle is mirthless.
It's pretty clear that a vote for Harris will be a vote for the status quo. By that, I mean that the administrative state will run the executive branch--like it is doing now. Biden isn't running anything, his cabinet secretaries are letting their departments run themselves. Does anybody think that Harris will even be aware of what's going on in major departments? It will be like Hillary Clinton and the State Dept. except on a government wide scale. Hillary traveled around a lot, but other than that, if she was actually administering at State, she probably would have used her State Dept. issued email address.
We will have a government, by the government and accountable only to itself.
Our first woman president should have been someone of gravitas and accomplishment, like Condoleezza Rice, instead we'll get a ditzy figurehead.
As well as the fact he is the only president in my lifetime (60+) to exit office less wealthy than he entered it. Kinda belies their lies about him. By the way the chart I saw on this subject and it claimed the Clintons were worth $1.2M when he was elected, but I remember at the time he was making $30K as Governor of Arkansas and I think they didn't even own a home. I wonder if they were using his 2nd election as the "before" benchmark.
Trump hasn’t been asked the most basic questions about one of his only policy promises for 2025 - likely because the press knows he has no finite plans that would provide answers.
Seriously? You think they're in the tank for Trump?
They mean - a radical leftist cannot win an election with the normals.
She's not only a radical - she is a communist.
Plus a finger in the wind opportunist and puppet. so much joy!
We opened doors by thinking.
We went to sleep by voting 'O'.
We drove to work by proxy.
I plugged my wife in, just for show.
New ways, new ways.
I dream of wires.
Rusty nailed it. That’s what it all boils down to. Whatever benefits these leftwing ninnies.
She’s unburdened by THE has-been.
Different crowd… and Harris thinks Georgians are thick enough to scarf that stuff up, cuz they be hangry!
A few chuckles would not ameliorate that much pain and suffering.
Dipshizzy
Someone should re-do that old John Kerry commercial with him in a small sailboat (Sailfish?) getting blown about by the wind - right, then left, then right, then left - with Kamala super-imposed.
Her values haven't changed, but her policies (win or lose) will change back on November 6.
Excellent analysis, it's circle talk. And is fooling no one.
She knows, and has accepted, that if elected, smarter lefties will be in charge of what she thinks, does and says. She's in that far over her head.
Clear the decks and let Trump take the blame for whatever mess is coming? Maybe, but that's Plan B or a consolation prize. Right now, they are trying to win, even though they have a very lousy hand of cards.
"Values" can be an empty, nothing, placeholder word. She's saying, "Trust me. I mean well. Whatever I said and whatever I do, I always want what's best." She's also saying to the party, that she is part of the tribe, and believes what the tribe believes, and wants what's best for the tribe. If something hurts the party (or her own chances), or the party changes its mind, she will change her policy.
That probably was something that didn't need to be rehashed yet again. It would be nice if her avoiding the question were a sign that we'd hear less about race if she were elected, but it isn't.
"However, Donald Trump has still never been asked by the press, much less answered, how he plans to fulfill his promise of mass deportations"
Of course, he has been asked about that, and the press has been discussing that constantly. Trump has even given answers to the question, though of course, the details haven't all been worked out yet. Don't assume that he will try to deport everyone who is here illegally. He's said determinations will have to be made. Most of the recent illegal entrants aren't working in agriculture -- or working at all. Would deportation really be more expensive than feeding, clothing, and housing recent entrants into the indefinite future?
Maybe we can just admit that Trump's "values" could be nothing more than "I want what's best for the American people" and ignore the stuff about him that annoys us. Maybe we can see that when he was president he mostly did "what's best for the American people" and that the democrats when they were in power did mostly "what's best for the democratic party".
With respect, it fools those who are eager to be fooled.
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