Posted on 10/07/2020 7:34:22 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson
I approached the Vice Presidential debate this evening with one question: "What is Kamala Harris like?" I'd conveniently missed the primary debates so my impression of the woman was basically unformed.
Unformed but not unbiased. No one is unbiased as the tenor of moderator Susan Page's questions clearly showed.
I've heard the usual tittle-tattle about Kamala's personal life, but being a MAGA Conservative, I'm focused on the issues, not personalities. I already know what Kamala stands for, or rather doesn't stand for, Protection of the unborn coming to mind.
Still, being an inveterate people watcher, I wanted to know how Kamala would come off during the Vice Presidential debate against one of the most active, visible and loudly Christian Vice Presidents in recent memory. I know Donald Trump ain't no gentleman, thank God, because he took names and kicked Joe's ass in the last debate.
How would Kamala relate to Mike Pence? Predictably, the debate began with that beaten-to-death topic of coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. As usual, the questions were obviously slanted against the current administration, touching on the 25th Amendment (transfer of power) with Kamala's talking point being "dead bodies." We get it, Kamala, you're plenty graphic. These are our family members you're talking about. Referring to them as "dead bodies" did you no favors.
Kamala's answers were stock Democrat. Beating the same drum the Democrats have beaten since the days of Will Rogers. Republicans are just for the wealthy. Republicans deny science. Answers so pat, so unimaginative, so predictable that I caught myself zoning out when Kamala spoke. I've heard Democrats say the same things for forty years. Their claims are no more true now than they were in 1984!
But my ears perked up when Kamala again referred to herself as "Black" while, according to Reuters, "the press, as well as Kamala Harris herself, have continually described her racial identity as Black, South Asian, Indian-American, African-American, and Jamaican-American." Personally, I wish she'd be consistent. It feels, in my opinion, that she selects her race depending on each situation.
Of course, the issue of President Trump's taxes rapidly followed coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. When Kamala brought up the debt that any businessman carries, including Trump, she looked into the camera to clarify for the apparently stupid American public by saying that "debt" means "you owe money to somebody."
Thank you for that, Kamala. We had no idea.
Yes, my fellow Americans, Kamala does think you're an idiot.
In fact, throughout the entire debate I found Kamala to embody condescension. Now, as a quiet person, I've been condescended to a lot in my life, usually by women on power trips who later showed themselves to inept. So I'm something of a self-taught expert on condescension and Kamala's condescension was, in my opinion, vile. It did her no favors as a woman nor as a politician.
But she could be funny too, perhaps inadvertently. When she said Joe is "honest and forthright," I chuckled. He certainly is forthright about his racism and his more-than-creepy interest in the little children he fondles on camera.
Honesty is to not need a teleprompter because you speak from the heart. Trump needs no teleprompters because he is honest. Biden can't do an interview without one.
Now, no one was more grateful for the increased civility during this debate than I was. But it's a debate, for Pete's sake! Some talking over, some spirited back-and-forth is as true to debate as it is to the American spirit. We don't want it too sanitized.
But when Mike Pence dared to call Kamala out for not telling the truth immediately after she claimed the debate was about truth, Kamala again showed her condescension by speaking down to the Vice President of the United States.
Joe told the President of the United States to "shut up." Kamala raised your eyebrows, talked down to and treated the VP Pence like a naughty child.
As my husband said, "If the Democratic ticket treats the Executive Branch with such condescension, imagine how they'll treat the middle class."
Their condescension knows no end. They tout long-debunked myths about Trump's supposed disrespect to our men and women in uniform, again insulting our intelligence quite ignoring Joe calling them "stupid bastards." But condescension is also flip-flopping on the issues as we won't notice: "They were for the Green New Deal, before they were against it, before they were for it!"
Well, which is it?!?
I couldn't believe it when Kamala said, "Y'know what a bounty is?" and then defined it for us. Um, we know what a bounty is just as we know what debt is. We're not stupid, Kamala.
Heavy sigh.
On the topic of packing the Supreme Court, she condescended to Pence's summation of the history with a sarcastic coo of, "I'm so glad we went through that history lesson," and when Pence pressed her to actually answer the question, she again talked down to the VP Pence. The bright smile. The raised eyebrows. The nodding. She was obviously on a power trip and it reflected badly on Kamala, not on Mike Pence, ever the gentleman.
There's much talk about toxic masculinity. I feel we just witnessed toxic feminism.
Later she snapped, "I will not sit here and be lectured." Actually, she said it twice.
It seems there are two standards on that stage. She lectures Pence but he is not free to share the details of Kamala's voting record. He wasn't lecturing. She did...repeatedly.
From only a personality perspective, Mike Pence comported himself calmly, intelligently and as the gentleman he is. It's nice to see a Christian with the strength of character and strength of VP Pence.
Kamala was a worthy opponent and debater but her attitude did her no favors. Condescension looks good on no one and yes, my fellow Americans, Kamala demonstrated repeatedly that, yes, she does think you're an idiot.
How does it feel?
You tell ‘em! She did the female gender no favors tonight. Can’t even claim to have shattered a glass ceiling. Geraldine Ferraro did that in 1983. My first memory was riding on my dad’s shoulders when he picketed Geraldine Ferraro!
I wish they’d come up with some new lies. I’m tired of the old ones. ;)
Imagine working with her or for her. Yikes!
No, that's a 6 percentage point increase, which is a 40% increase: 21 is 140% of 15!
Luckily, I didn’t have to watch it. Just listen and type furiously. Kamala’s condescension is infuriating!
You mean, this was Kamala on Good Behavior? Heaven forfend!
When you are on a high school field trip, most of the chaperoning moms are cool, but there is always a mom that is constantly hassling kids about the rules, and generally being a pain in the ass as a chaperone. That’s Kamala Harris.
So very sorry for your loss. I think the isolation had a big part in my grandmother’s death in August too. I’m so sick of the whole thing. :(
I know. The same ol’ lies. I wish they’d make up some new ones just to keep things interesting. ;)
BS...go away troll!!
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And here I thought Bounty was the quicker picker-upper.
Pull up the primary debates as she was crashing and burning. They were a sight to behold!
Agreed.
I think Pence's response to 'Climate Change' was good. I agree, we don't know that the temperature is really rising due to the untrustworthy reporting of the data - and we also don't know what is the 'right temperature' for the planet. But it was best not to argue these points in the debate setting.
The 220k COVID death was also nonsense - but also not a good setting to argue. Otherwise you'd be cast as a conspiracy theorist.
I agree that the 'Trump inherited a booming economy from Obama' was a flat-out lie that should have been swatted down, but at that time I think Pence had to refute other lies - and didn't have time to stomp this one down.
Your observations were spot on. I can’t tell you how many times that I have spoken to jurors after trials who expressed their displeasure at the behavior of the opposing lawyer. It was shocking watching a veteran attorney like Kamala Harris act the way she did during this debate. She obviously was more of a politician than a trial lawyer. These pundits on TV don’t know what they are talking about. Trump picked up some support tonight from wavering Republican women. Pence won hands down.
VP Pence beat Harris on substance on every point.
But he also beat her on niceness.
Pence was cordial to her, the moderator and Biden.
She didn’t have a nice word for anyone.
Now I see why even Democrats don’t like her.— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 8, 2020
First female presidential candidate was actually Victoria Woodhull. Ferraro was, however, the first nominee for the office by a major party.
““I will not sit here and be lectured.”“
Very rehearsed and practiced. The silver haired white male wasn’t going get away with interrupting or lecturing to Ms Diversity Pants.
Oh no, that mean old white man wasn’t getting away with it.
KT McFarland (sp.) just said Harris is not likeable and that was seen tonight
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Harris is edgy, smarmy and whiney. That kind of personality turns people off and it explains in large part why she ran so poorly as a Dem candidate for president. Even the Dem voters didn’t like her personality.
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