Posted on 05/19/2021 10:40:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Not exactly what anyone would call a leader.
Steven Hayward at Power Line has a prescient observation about the unflattering exposé of Kamala Harris that ran in The Atlantic two days ago:
[P]erhaps the most revealing tidbit in the whole article, though it may not be evident to the casual reader:
Harris has been an elected official for 18 years straight, but she has only a few senior aides on staff who have worked for her for more than a few months. Turf battles have been a recurring feature of Harris offices over the years, but her newest circle believes it is finally getting her on track after years of past staffers not serving her well. Some have been surprised at how much work there is to be done, whether that's briefing her on certain policy issues or helping her improve her sparring-with-journalists skills.
The problem isn't "turf battles." It is always a bad sign when a politician can't good keep staff (or any staff), and Harris has long been known for being a terrible boss, going back to her time as California Attorney General. When you can't keep eager political staff ...
Briefing her on policy issues? Hard to do when she's such a lazy person, interested only in wokester posturing, talking about her "story," posing for Vogue photo spreads, thrilling the crochet circles, or whining about her home decorating dilemmas. Policy to Kamala is for the birds.
Hayward is right about politicians who can't keep good staff on hand and that being a bad reflection on their capacity to lead. Eric Hoffer once noted that the reason Stalin was able to best Trotsky for the supreme leadership of the Soviet dictatorship was because of his capacity to retain the loyalty of a group of able lieutenants.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Her cackle alone would make most people run.
In before the Willie Brown jokes…
She’s just unlikable.
She couldn’t even keep Willie Brown’s staff for very long.
Well she must have had some skills for Willie to want to keep her around.
Will be new definition of "Lame Duck"!
She probably smells.
Hard to keep good staff when everybody is afraid for their lives.
Apparently Willie Brown’s staff worked for her for over a decade...
The talents and skills one uses to sleep her way to the top aren’t so valuable in creating a productive and smooth-running office.
” Whistling girls and cackling hens always comes to some bad ends”
And when she takes over as president?
My guess is that she only wanted to be briefed after she gets caught with her pants down by the media and then the briefer suffers for her laziness. Politics was so much easier when all she had to do was Willie Brown.
extremely
Maybe she needs a loyal friend.
[”If you want a friend, get a dog”]
However, Hyenas are not technically dogs, so....
When you are in a position of leadership and you don’t have your own army you hire mercenaries. When you are in the position of leadership, don’t have your own army, and don’t have money for mercenaries, someone else who can’t, for whatever reason, get into a position of leadership will eventually step in to pay for them.
Harris doesn’t have her own people, she doesn’t have her own money, she’s a heartbeat away from the Presidency — and the Big Guy has dementia. That “someone” (or multiple someone’s) who can’t fill the role has known this all along and has been posturing for this eventuality.
Bad backs and knees from all the bowing and kneeling ?
She is a trivial person, a west coast social climber, focused on the appearance of things.
‘Fweedom!’
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