"Listen, I might [run again]. I'm thinking about it. Let me also say this. I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office, footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room. I know what the job is. And I know what it requires...."
So she spent untold hours in a room near his room. But what was he even doing in his room? Weren't there other people in other rooms doing everything for him? So yeah, she knows what it takes, and she feels up to it, and, if that's the job, we're all up to it.
@nbcnewyork Speaking to Rev. Al Sharpton at his National Action Network’s annual convention, Kamala Harris was asked directly whether she planned to run again in 2028. "Listen, I might," she said, to the crowd's applause. "I'm thinking about it." The former vice president and Democratic nominee went on to recall all the time she spent in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room during the Biden administration. "I know what the job is, and I know what it requires," said Harris. #nbc4ny #politics #kamalaharris ♬ original sound - NBC New York
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“…And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of the president and what that means to the future of our nation, depending on whether or not they vote for me.”
—— Kamaltoe Harris
I'm about to wear out my Laughing emoji on Facebook. This story is one of the reasons why. I heard that there were people chanting for her to run, and I wondered how many of them were Republicans.
I rather have her than Newsom.
Similar resume as Monica Lewinsky? How about pairing up for an all female ticket?
Harris could star in a remake of “Clueless.” The fact that she was one heartbeat away from the Presidency for four years is unnerving.
She is truly unburdened by what has been!
I saw your headline Ann and for a second I thought it said she watched countless hours of "The West Wing".
I want to know what she thinks about the Artemis mission.
Being somewhere is a meaningless element on your resume, similar to Hillary’s airline miles travelled. So what? What were your accomplishments? We don’t elect presidents by their participation trophy count.
That voice! Imagine 4 years of this obnoxiousness broadcasted every single day.
She can see the Oval Office from her office.
I once had an office that overlooked NYC's Ed Sullivan Theater, so I'm qualified to be a Beatle. Or at least one of those spinning plates guys.
Anybody read her book? The Free Press says it's bitchy, honest, and (inadvertently) comic. Apparently she badmouths everybody in the Democrat party. And her husband. It reads like a diary.
“WisRich said...
I saw your headline Ann and for a second I thought it said she watched countless hours of "The West Wing".”
Funny. I thought the same thing. And wasn’t a bit surprised that she would offer this as an argument for her competence.
I’m thinking there’s no chance she runs. But she’ll happily monetize the agonizing suspense!
OTOH, her and Hillary provided me with two of the most hilarious Novembers of my life. So I acknowledge a debt.
D D - more like unburdened by what never came to be.
Biden's nurse spend countless hours near him.. does that make Biden's nurse presidential material?
She is embarrassing. Bring her back!
Hillary is far more qualified and intelligent.
Hillary is a lying sack of crap... but at least she has a brain.
Albeit and old one.
"I want to know what she thinks about the Artemis mission."
"Space is the place where, though there's lots of space, we don't spend much time there although we're building towards doing that, and that time is every day."
She needs a campaign committee that they can happily funnel graft to.
I've spent countless hours near the Red Sox dugout too, but that doesn't put me in the bullpen.
She’s their best hope atm innt she?
Republicans might laugh at and/or mock this from their perspective. From the perspective of a Democratic base voter deciding who to vote for in the Democratic presidential primary contests starting in 2028, this is also extremely non-compelling and reminds me of why she did so poorly in Iowa in 2020.
Friday is a good time for comedic posts.
Thanks Althouse. I laughed.
"Weren't there other people in other rooms doing everything for him?"
That's what makes her think she could do the job, because others would do it for her.
Peachy said...
Hillary is far more qualified and intelligent.
Hillary is a lying sack of crap... but at least she has a brain.
Albeit and old one.
If Hillary is a man she is a local lawyer nobody outside a little town ever heard of.
She was married to Bill Clinton. That is all she ever accomplished in her life that had any positive value.
I wonder what Sharpton makes of Harris being called a black woman. I wonder what Harris makes of having to deal with the likes of Al Sharpton.
a little standup comedy, oh shes serious
Had she done her job as VP and pushed to invoke the 25th Amendment she’d have been a bit closer than a room away. What a damn joke.
but the cabinet would not have gone along, we dodged a bullet,
"She was married to Bill Clinton. That is all she ever accomplished in her life that had any positive value."
Positive value for her. For the rest of the country? Not likely.
She’s smart enough to know the political influence cash stops flowing the second she drops out.
"I spent hundreds of hours in the oval office, seeing a senile old coot who could barely tie his shoes, eating his ice cream cone, and being POTUS. So, I know what the job takes. And i can do that".
Joe Biden showed that anyone can be POTUS. Literally anyone.
I'll give Kam this, she doesn't blame the Russians for her loss. Just White America.
Literally anyone who happens to identify as a Democrat. Those folks won't cheat to get a Republican into office.
Here are most of the people we've nominated for POTUS since 1996 - Dole, Clinton, Kerry, Hillary, Bush 43, Mittens, McCain, Obama, Kam, and Biden.
No wonder Trump got elected twice.
The Biden Presidency was such an absurdity. How many tough questions from the Press did he get in 4 years? Two? The Press went from "speaking truth to power" to "Covering up for Power".
He couldn't even sign Pardons. He was using an autopen and delegation.
Walz 'n Karma-la knows how to be precedent with neither qualification nor representative interest.
I think Kamala Harris could easily be at the top of the list of the most moronic Presidential candidates of all time.
The more you watch the more you can see she was drunk on her ass.
OCEAN: Three times.
Also, Dole and McCain were war heroes who refused to recognize they needed the same savagery in politics that they needed in combat.
The rest of them: yes, Minnie Mouse.
(fuckin' Goofy!)
CC, JSM
What is so surprising about the 2024 Harris presidential campaign is that so many Democrats swallowed her lies, hook, line, and sinker. Read this...
History: Truth or Fiction
Jupiter: "I wonder what Sharpton makes of Harris being called a black woman. I wonder what Harris makes of having to deal with the likes of Al Sharpton."
Naah, the Rev Al believes in the one-drop rule because it maximizes his constituency. And Kommie-Lay was indoctrinated in Sharptonism at Howard, not to mention by Willie Brown's brown willie.
On the other hand, Sharpton is a genuinely intelligent man who can preach and argue circles around most. Even more impressive when you realize he's working from an empty scripture (wokeism, not the Bible). He may resent Kommie a bit as a trustafarian whose parents paid for her to go to charm schools without actually learning anything. But it has nothing to do with calibrating her blackness. CC, JSM
I'm sure Biden also regrets selecting Harris as his VP. The truth is they deserved each other, and they both deserve to be linked with each other in history.
With respect, I think you have misquoted Harris in a way that may entirely change what she meant.
Harris didn’t say, “Let me also say this.“ She said, “But let me also say this.” That “but” is ambiguous, probably purposefully so, but could mean that she is offering what she says next - that she knows what the job of being President is and what it requires - as a reason not to run.
She hasnt shown herself to be that self aware
timing.
Report: California Dems in Disarray As Former Staffer Accuses Swalwell of Twice Sexually Assaulting Her.
Kamala sounds she would consider being the Democratic presidential candidate if it was offered to her. That's probably not going to happen again.
Trump is having a very active term. A presidential candidate will need to offer more than being Black, a woman and hating Trump to win.
"Aggie said...
I've spent countless hours near the Red Sox dugout too, but that doesn't put me in the bullpen."
Of course not. The bullpen is behind the wall in right-center, and the dugout is along the first base line.
Please, please, please.
@Curious George: No, see.. sitting in the box seats by the dugout and having proximity doesn't mean - ah forget it.
John Mosby: are you kidding? Al Sharpton and his megaphone mob nearly lynched the Central Park victim when she was in an unmarked van -- his followers led by him swarmed and tried to rip her out from. His attacks on public figures in the Tawana Brawley rape hoax caused one to have to be relocated with his family out of state. He fomented the mob that torched Freddy's Fashion Mart, killing seven innocent employees and shoppers, black and white. I could go on, but you should know these things.
Sorry to be rude, John Mosby. The tree pollen is killing me. I'd strangle the Lorax right now. You must be too young to remember what Sharpton has done. I remember the sharpshooters on the roof of the courthouse in my home town; I vaguely knew some of the victims of the Tawana Brawley hoax, orchestrated, by the way, by Sharpton; the racist riots that drove the victims into hiding; the relentless radio broadcasts of him calling the comatose and brain-damaged but resilient jogger a whore and KKK member, when she only testified about her injuries, having no memory of the attack. And yes, the "Boys" were guilty. Sharpton is a monster. Even leftist NYC journalists, when there were real journalists, have written some great books documenting his crimes and accessory to murders. That the Democrats embrace him is like making Ed Gein their spokesman. My husband would take away my car keys whenever he raked in the big bucks speaking at my sickeningly pandering grad school. I would have happily gone to prison and lost my hard-earned home for punching him in the face just once.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
Harris didn’t say, “Let me also say this.“ She said, “But let me also say this.”
Whether offered as a qualification or a reason not to run, simply being in the White House is neither. She didn't point to being "Border Czar" or any of the other duties she was supposedly tasked with and utterly failed at as a reason to know what the job entails.
Tina: I am aware of all Sharpton's horrors in the 80s. They don't make him any less intelligent. They're more evidence of how he's smart enough to build an empire on a foundation of utter crap. And he's gotten away with all of it. Still more evidence. And reasons for him to see Kommie-Lay as an absolute nepo baby piker. CC, JSM
But yes, it would still be great if he got punched in the face every time he shows up in polite society. CC, JSM
Harris has probably spent more time closely watching episodes of "West Wing", the bible of the Obama administration, than witnessing "Auto Pen" Biden ineptly and mostly absently serving as president. Here, she notes "sitting in her West Wing office, steps from Oval Office, heartbeat away", but makes no claims of "working" with Biden or his top administrators.
"Standing in room" for the photo op is not what Vance is doing in Trump 2. administration.
I, for one, welcome her presidential candidacy against the Republican winner in 2028.
Hes a smarter slithy tove i'll grant him that
Get rid of the bureaucracy? You were there 4 years how much bureaucracy did you get rid of? In the next go round if it comes to JD Vance or you I know which one I'm putting money on being the one to get rid of bureaucracy. (Nodding my head significantly)
I play golf so I guess an invitation to play in the Master's Golf Tournament should be coming in the mail.
Biden (or was it Obama's 3rd term?) has left us with the gift of Kamala Harris and the retard Associate Justice.
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