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How Kamala Harris Is Already Changing the Face of Presidential Power
The New York Times ^
| Aug. 11, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
| Tressie McMillan Cottom
Posted on 08/11/2024 11:28:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I have not been the biggest fan of Kamala Harris, but to my surprise, the candidate who underwhelmed in 2020 is gone. I have watched all of candidate Harris’s public appearances since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for a sense of how she intends to run and possibly govern. The audiences have been vastly different, among them: the annual conclave of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, a National Federation of Teachers convention and the Philadelphia rally where the Harris-Walz ticket made its first official appearance.
What I took away: Kamala Harris is a different candidate than we saw four years ago. She is even a different rhetorician than we saw six months ago.
Nominee Harris lands her applause lines. The former prosecutor is comfortable going on the attack. Her most consistent message is that Donald Trump wants to send America back to the Dark Ages. Unlike her predecessor, she relishes calling Trump out by name. Even her wacky humor, which has been mocked on social media, suddenly works. She sounds authentic. That’s the holy grail of electoral politics. Every wide-jawed cackle she offers the audience, every twinkle in her eye as she pokes at Trump — it all comes off as someone who is in on the joke. That is hard for any candidate but it is an almost impossible tightrope for a Black female candidate to walk.
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: shill; tressiecottom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
New York Times = Propaganda organ of the Deep State
North Korean state media is much more credible.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:56:13 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:59:29 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Harris would do a lot less than Joe
To: FlipWilson
What about some variety? You could take the time from your busy schedule to post articles you prefer.
Just a thought.
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:07:43 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: All
I see Kamala has decided to sideline her twice-wed lady killer
husband who broke up his first marriage by knocking up his kid’s nanny.
Kamala is successfully hiding her fears that Emhoff might hit
the sheets with another sex-crazed ditz while Kam is on the campaign trail.
She has a lot of help......must be dozens of journos out there
anxious to be the one to catch Kammie’s hubby with his pants down.
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:10:58 PM PDT
by
Liz
To: nwrep
THIS “PERSON” NEEDS A NEW SET OF STANDARDS
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:17:02 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: All
You can almost get type-2 diabetes reading the sugary crap this one wrote.
Tressie must be angling for a high paying federal job......maybe even prez press secretary.
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:17:49 PM PDT
by
Liz
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:24:18 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
a PTP(professional turd polisher) at the NYT
her arms must be getting tired
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:26:15 PM PDT
by
joshua c
To: MtnClimber
Isn’t it crazy how about half of us can be turned against the others? Sure does make it simple to win elections.
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posted on
08/11/2024 12:46:12 PM PDT
by
jdt1138
(Where ever you go, there you are.)
To: nwrep
McMillan Cottom was born in Harlem and raised in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina.[6][7] Her mother was a member of the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem.[8] Before completing her undergraduate degree, McMillan Cottom worked as an enrollment officer at a technical college, a job that would inform her later research and her first book.[9] In 2009,[10] McMillan Cottom received a B.A. from North Carolina Central University, a public HBCU, in English and political science.[11]
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posted on
08/11/2024 1:11:29 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You aren’t changing the face of presidential power if you’re hiding in your basement.
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posted on
08/11/2024 1:39:42 PM PDT
by
TalBlack
(I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
...her wacky humor, which has been mocked on social media, suddenly works. She sounds authentic. False.
To: nwrep
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thank you for giving us every article in the New York Times every day. We eagerly await them. I hope they pay you well.
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posted on
08/11/2024 2:35:30 PM PDT
by
Luke21
To: Luke21
I want to know what the enemy is up to so I can fight them.
You want to sick your head up your Obama and live in a tiny, insulated bubble.
See the difference?
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posted on
08/11/2024 2:40:38 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: FlipWilson
At FR some of us fling plates of fecal matter against the wall and what sticks they call art.
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posted on
08/11/2024 2:48:15 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yep, she is now godess like.
Sonn she will be curing the sick.
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posted on
08/11/2024 2:50:39 PM PDT
by
oldbill
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I want to know what the enemy is up to so I can fight them.Like we don't already know....
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posted on
08/11/2024 2:51:41 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Changing the face of politics to ugly crooked leg spreaders
Way to go
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posted on
08/11/2024 3:12:27 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it )
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