Posted on 01/15/2024 11:06:20 AM PST by simpson96
Though Joe Biden is indeed running for president again, that hasn't stopped talk of what Kamala Harris' presidential qualifications are (or are not), which is understandable considering Biden's age and noticeable health issues, not to mention how in 2019 he reportedly was privately saying he would only serve one term.
Unfortunately for Harris, those assessments - like many we've seen over the three years of her time as Biden's second in command - have not been good.
Making all of this even more of a headache for Kamala HQ is the fact that some of the most brutal are coming from former staffers, some of whom - according to an upcoming book - are saying the quiet part out loud about her being a diversity pick:
Harris ran for president in 2020, but withdrew a month before the first vote. Her campaign, [authors] Walker and Luppen quote the unnamed aide as saying, was “rotten from the start.
“A lot of us, at least folks that I was friends with on the campaign, all realised that: ‘Yeah, this person should not be president of the United States.”
Another unnamed aide, identified as a “senior staffer”, is quoted as saying Harris’s backstory, as the child of Indian and Jamaican immigrants who became the first woman and woman of colour to be vice-president, is “a lot of the reason people support her.
“But you’ve got to back that up with: ‘What are you going to do?’”
(snip) Harris can’t be bothered to do due diligence on anything she speaks publicly about. She expects to be able to spout off common talking points and buzzwords that make the media and the “woke” left salivate, and when she ends up getting embarrassed about it later, it’s the hard-working staffers behind the scenes who get punished.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
On the wild assumption that Biden makes it to the Dem nomination, will Harris be the running mate?
Opinions on who the Dems would substitute and how they would deal with dumping Harris? (Which would anger those who wanted her in the first place. Plus, tacitly admit that she was a failure and Joe erred by picking her in 2020.)
She says bizarre things, such as being excited about school buses, and electric school buses in particular.
And how bizarre, when she was in Europe, soon after the start of the Ukraine War, and burst into laughter during a discussion about refugees.
I’m sure others can think of other really unusual behavior from her. Well, even Democrats behind the scenes, have made some of these observations about her, and don’t want to see her ever run for president.
She checks boxes . Such as, black or African American, Indian, daughter of immigrants, female. It would seem very difficult to get rid of her given the Democrats love of diversity and wanting members of various minorities in high office.
If they think she’s bad now, just wait until she’s POTUS...................
If we had a functioning press, Harris would look like a genius compared to Biden.
redstate.com
By Sister Toldjah
December 21, 2022
Joe Biden Realized His Mistake With Kamala Harris Very Early On
As we previously reported, there have been scattered stories throughout Joe Biden’s presidency about alleged tensions between the Biden and Harris camps, with Biden’s people reportedly frustrated at the veep’s inability to appropriately handle the tasks given to her by Biden, and the Harris camp’s belief being that Biden’s staff relishes pinning his multitude of failures on her.
Those tensions appeared to manifest themselves in a very public way back in November 2021 when the two along with their respective spouses visited a D.C. soup kitchen around Thanksgiving to prepare plates for those in need. Videos and photos from the event showed Biden appearing to snub Harris at various points, with him spending most of his time talking to the kitchen’s chef.
Here we are nearly a full two years into the Biden-Harris administration and a new book set to be released in January sheds light on how Biden seemed to have figured out very early on what a mess he’d gotten into by picking Harris to be his vice presidential running mate:
In the first months of his presidency, Joe Biden vented his frustration about Vice President Kamala Harris, telling a friend that she was “a work in progress.”
According to an upcoming book about the Biden presidency obtained by West Wing Playbook, “The Fight of His Life,” word got back to him that second gentleman Douglas Emhoff had been complaining about Harris’ policy portfolio — which her allies felt was hurting her politically. “Biden was annoyed,” wrote author Chris Whipple, who obtained extensive access to Biden administration officials while writing the book. “He hadn’t asked Harris to do anything he hadn’t done as vice president — and she’d begged him for the voting rights assignment.”
Biden wasn’t alone. A senior White House adviser vented that “[Harris’] inner circle didn’t serve her well in the presidential campaign — and they are ill-serving her now.” The problem with that assessment – that Harris was not being “served well” by her inner circle – is that it was Harris who picked and chose who she was closest to and remained close to during her failed presidential campaign, her campaign with Joe Biden, and beyond, including after she was sworn in as vice president.
As the old saying goes, you’re known by the company you keep. And in politics especially, if those same people aren’t “serving you well” over an extended period of time then you share some of the blame for putting them in those positions – and keeping them there – in the first place.
This is a sentiment that was echoed behind the scenes by then-Biden comms director Kate Bedingfield, according to another report from Politico at the time: “In private, Bedingfield had taken to noting that the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high expectations: Her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco. Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice president’s staff,” Martin and Burns write.
It was an inconvenient truth, and one that dovetailed with stories written since Harris’ early days in the White House about how exceedingly difficult some former and current staffers say she has always been to work with (turnover among campaign staff during her failed 2020 presidential bid was said to be very high).
In addition to that, Harris’ ego is so massive that she has a tendency to blame her staff for problems that she herself creates. As the Washington Post reported last December, Harris can’t be bothered to do due diligence on anything she speaks publicly about, so when she ends up getting embarrassed by something she says later, it’s the hard-working staffers behind the scenes who get punished.
To reiterate points I’ve made before, this is what happens when one’s career starts off the way Harris’s did. You begin to expect to be given preferential treatment as you climb the ladder and treated to fawning interviews in the press because of “who you are” and what you supposedly represent from a “historical” perspective.
In fact, her being a black woman was why Biden chose her in the first place after being pressured for months by woke Democrats to choose a running mate based on physical characteristics over qualifications. Though I wouldn’t have agreed with any of them from a political standpoint – and probably would not have cared for them from a personal standpoint, there were other black women Biden could have picked who had more experience with the necessary particulars to serve as vice president than Harris.
But he ended up choosing Harris, one in a long line of poor decisions he made both as a presidential candidate and then president.
That said, no one should feel sorry for the predicament Biden has found himself in with Harris, for who the 2024 PR pivot has already started. As another old saying goes, he made his bed on this, and now he has to lay in it. Unfortunately, it’s the American people who have had to pay the price for his mistakes, including the one he made when he threw a dart at the wall while blindfolded and decided on Kamala.
link-——Joe Biden Can’t Explain Why He Picked Kamala Harris as His Vice President
I dunno - you’d think a graduate of the Hillary Clinton Charm School would be a great choice...
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The idea that Kamala Harris is “second in command” to a man who isn’t in command of anything is ludicrous.
Of course, the danger that something will happen to “Biden” in the next 12 months and five days so the regime can no longer pretend that he is in command and that the operation of the Constitution would make Kamala Harris the President? THAT is a big problem.
“Fresh” 2024 Kamala headaches.
Still looking for something ‘fresh’ or previously unknown in Kamala’s shopping cart.
Kamala gives great headache.
Kamala Harris did a good job. She checks all the boxes for Joe. She “helped” him to get elected. Honestly, what else is she supposed to do? Her position is useless. Always been that way.
She has done nothing about the border Biden charged her with.
To a lot of people, that’s a biggie.
The buck stops with the President.
Kamalamadingdong has the megalomania and stupidity of Traitorjoe; she doesn’t yet have his dementia.
Hillary...
...to avoid a sudden string of suicides!
I don’t think the Deep State likes Kamala Harris. She’s a bit of a “wild card”. She’ll do something stupid like support Hamas. So the Deep State will have no choice but to impeach her and then convict her. Then the Speaker becomes President.
We already know she’s FUBAR!
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