Posted on 05/12/2019 4:55:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Congressional Black Caucus may have found an answer to its Joe Biden dilemma: Vice President Kamala Harris.
Some black lawmakers are agonizing over whether to back Biden or two members of the close-knit caucus Sens. Harris and Cory Booker who are also vying for the White House, according to interviews with a dozen CBC members.
But with the former vice president jumping out to a huge, if early, lead in the polls, several CBC members are warming to the idea of a Biden-Harris ticket to take on President Donald Trump.
That would be a dream ticket for me, a dream ticket! said Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.). If she is not the nominee, that would be a dream ticket for this country.
Harris is everything the 76-year-old Biden is not. The freshman senator from California is younger, a woman and a person of color. As Biden gets dinged for his bipartisan bromides, Harris is winning applause from progressives for her merciless cross-examination of Trump officials.
Democrats are also desperate to boost black turnout in 2020, blaming the drop-off from Barack Obamas wins as one reason for Hillary Clintons defeat.
Either combination there, Id love, said Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.). I think hes going to look to balance his ticket so that the ticket itself is more appealing. ... I think it would make sense and it wouldnt surprise me if he picked a woman of color.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Pence is AWOL on nationalism and MAGA. He is stiff pretending to be VEEP.
For the record, I was making a joke. I did not think that a Swiss artist in 1781 was creating a painting of America’s Lady Liberty, or Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris.
Sure....right....
Rolling eyes...
Ha, Ha, ha.
Let's lose the Midwest moderate voter base
Also from the Oct 5, 2016 VP debate...
QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?
PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clintons top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset. After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.
And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America the greatest nation on Earth just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.
It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. Weve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.
And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.
Theres a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.
QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.
PENCE: Weve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know theyre dealing with a strong American president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html
Her role in this arrangement is what? To cover up his sexual assaults, as per her established prior expertise?
Harris not a natural born citizen
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared to be caught off guard Monday when she was asked about the latest developments in the alleged attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett.
During an appearance at a bookstore in Concord, N.H., a female reporter asked the senator from California if she wanted to amend a tweet from Jan. 29, in which she said Smollett was the victim of an attempted modern day lynching and called the actor one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. Harris has also used the Smollett attack to push legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime.
Which tweet? What tweet? Harris asked. As the reporter specified the tweet in question, Harris appeared to look around for a campaign staffer before responding.
OK, so, I will say this about that case, she said. I think that the facts are still unfolding, and, um, Im very, um, concerned about obviously, the initial, um, allegation that he made about what might have happened.
And its something we should all take seriously whenever anyone, um, alleges that kind of behavior, but there should be an investigation, Harris added. And I think that once the investigation has concluded then we can all comment, but Im not going to comment until I know the outcome of the investigation.
Kamala Harris had no problem using inflammatory rhetoric to tie the #JussieSmollettHoax to @realDonaldTrump & his supporters, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted late Monday. Now that she has the facts, why cant she even remember her divisive language? Why is she giggling about it? ...
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From American Thinker...
After garnering a host of press attention for a supposed anti-black, anti-gay attack from supposed random supporters of President Trump, involving a noose, Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett looks pretty washed up now that a couple of Nigerians have been implicated by the Chicago cops in the perpetration of a hoax, supposedly to garner sympathy.
But another Hollywood guy, a film producer named Tariq Nasheed, who also goes by hip-hop rapper-like names of K-Flex and King Flex, thinks this isnt the end of the story. He smells a political rat.
His series of tweets raises suspicions that the political response to the matter, led by Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris (and Cory Booker), is suspicious, real suspicious, and there might have been a staged set-up in order to get a law passed and rack up voter points. ...
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CHICAGO Ever since he was a child actor growing up in a show-business family, Jussie Smolletts life blended activism with the make-believe worlds of television and movies. ..."
He spoke of his mothers closeness with the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, and how she had encouraged Mr. Smollett and his brothers and sisters to create art and live out their beliefs. ..."
For Mr. Smollett, arts and activism were intertwined throughout his childhood.
His parents met while campaigning for civil rights in the Bay Area of California, and his mother had worked with the founders of the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, according to a New York Times interview with Mr. Smollett in 2016.
Between child-acting gigs and press junkets that the six siblings did for their 1994 ABC sitcom, their mother, Janet Smollett, made sure the children played sports and read about figures like Malcolm X and Langston Hughes, she told The Los Angeles Times in 1994. (His family did not respond to phone or email messages.)
I know their mother, Janet, has always taught them to stand up for themselves, and for what they believe, Mr. Harris said.
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The past three days have been deeply trying for Empire actor, Jussie Smollett, to say the least.
After being brutally attacked by racists early Tuesday (January 29, 2019) morning, an ongoing investigation has resulted in several discoveries, but still no suspects apprehended.
Now, Jussies five siblings and Moms have decided to address the violent attack, as well as what they plan on doing about it going forward.
FYI: Their Mom was an activist and a member of The Black Panther Party back in the day.
So neither she, nor her kids, will simply take this violent racist/homophobic attack against her baby lying down.
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From the New York Times...
"Jussie and Jurnee still count their mother, Janet Smollett, as their only acting coach. An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights.
My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond, Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.
To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. Weve spent Mothers Day with Angela...."
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My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond, Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.
To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.
Weve spent Mothers Day with Angela...."
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS
* Communist professor at the University of Californias Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.
Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California - Santa Cruz.
A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a University Professor, one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant.
This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students.
Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303
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"In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors.
In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haleys head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis.
To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot, Ms. Davis fled California, using aliases and changing her appearance to avoid detection.
Two months later, Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City."
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/angela-davis/
Pence might make a good SoS but not a POTUS.
I might agree with you on that, although I think he'd make an excellent Secretary of State.
Didn't she start her political career under a “hands on”, older, male, politician?
Trump/Pence is superior in every way. But with the growing liberal indoctrination of the US and the hate-Trump PR campaign onslaught coming from the national media, it may not be enough.
A co-worker appreciates the Trump economy, but is a Biden fan. He thinks the economy will continue being great under Biden. He doesn’t give reasons why it will, but that’s what he thinks.
I hope I’m wrong. Vote and hope for the best.
Will the feminists allow that? They want a woman at the top of the ticket, not playing second fiddle to a man that can’t keep his hands to himself.
Lol! hands on, like in, Creepy/Crazy Joe Biden, the little girl groper.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3748720/posts?page=42#42
She’d let him touch her any way he wanted....
AGAIN:
KAMALA HARRIS IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT OR TO HOLD ANY OFFICE THAT CAN SUCCEED PRESIDENT OF THE USA.
Ive been thinking this for a long time, Tru. Its not what the truth of these people is, its what the media could manufacture out of what they are. I think this is the most dangerous pairing
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