Posted on 01/11/2019 8:19:21 PM PST by Impala64ssa
‘Why would you want to be president?’
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has not yet announced a bid for the White House, but on Friday the California senator faced a line of inquiry from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough that he credits with dooming the presidential campaign of former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Speaking on "Morning Joe," Harris was asked by the co-host why she wants to be president — the same question that some historians point to as the end of Kennedy's ill-fated 1980 campaign for the White House.
"I want to ask you the Roger Mudd question that he asked to Ted Kennedy, that Ted Kennedy couldn't answer and really doomed his presidency from day one," Scarborough began. "And that is: Why would you want to be president?"
Harris responded by saying the country is looking for vision and leadership.
"Because I believe our country wants and needs leadership that provides a vision of the future of our country in which everyone can see themselves," Harris told Scarborough.
"So let's start from that, and then think about what we need to do to speak to all of the people of our country, to ensure that we see them, to understand we don't need to accept false choices in terms of how we approach public policy," she added. "I'm a career prosecutor. I've spent my entire life, almost, focused on public safety."
"We can do that and also focus on issues like what we need to do to build a healthy economy," Harris said.
A local California radio station reported this week that the senator is planning to announce whether she will enter the presidential primary race on or around Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper this week that a decision on a run was coming "soon."
"We have to give the American people more credit, and we have to understand that the American public and the people of our country are smart people who will make decisions about who will be their leader based on who they believe is capable, who they believe has an honest desire to lead, to represent, to see them, to be a voice for them even if they have no power," Harris told CNN this week.
If she declares, Harris would emerge as a possible front-runner in the Democratic primary alongside Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D), who announced her own exploratory committee for president earlier in January.
The Democratic primary field is expected to be the most crowded in the party's history, with a few dozen hopefuls rumored to be considering a run.
Any doubt she already had the questions so she could do the beauty pageant thing and spew bubble-brained crap?
“’Because I believe our country wants and needs leadership that provides a vision of the future of our country in which everyone can see themselves,’ Harris told Scarborough.”
Brilliant./sarc. off.
You have a convincing argument to her eligibility?
That’s just what we need—another perpetually angry and haughty black woman, this time is running the show, constantly and loudly harping about her gender and her race. Yep, that’s what this country needs LMAO!
Skanky Kamala is much like Kankles in that she has no CLUE how unlikable she is. It’s awesome.
Do you have an argument that will convince any state secretary that she's not eligible?
Where is that in the Constitution?
US Constitution, Article 2, Section 1
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
I asked first chump
Doesn't matter. At no point will Kamala Harris be asked to prove she's eligible. It'll be up to those arguing she's not eligible to make the sale.
And screaming "SHE'S NOT ELIGIBLE!!!"from the rooftops to an echo chamber of Freepers who wouldn't vote for her no matter what isn't going to cut it. You need to make the sale to the people who actually have the power to keep her name off the ballot; i.e., individual state secretaries.
Good luck!
You have no answer of the ability to make an argument or both.
Says you have to be a natural born citizen. Doesn’t say your parents have to have been. Almost all people born in the US are natural born citizens, per law - some people born outside the US are also natural born citizens.
You are incorrect. She had no American citizen parents, it doesn’t matter where she was born. She is not an American citizen. The law says so.
Missed it: some days I focus on CNN, when I can’t take any more MJ!
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