Posted on 08/13/2024 6:27:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the three weeks since Joe Biden handed her the nomination, Kamala Harris spent a total of 70 seconds in front of reporters and issued one specific promise, which she stole from Donald Trump.
This is the first presidential campaign in history that appears to be guided by Nancy Pelosi’s line about Obamacare: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
At her brief stop before a handful of reporters while boarding Air Force Two, one of them oh-so-politely asked Harris when she’d sit down for a press interview.
Her answer: “I’ve talked to my team. I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.”
Staging rallies around the country is easy. Sitting down for an interview with a fawning reporter? That’s complicated business!
This is all in keeping with Harris’ completely content-free campaign, which she apparently hopes to ride until November on the wings of an adoring press.
To date, her website is utterly substance-free, consisting only of a bio of her and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a donation page, and a page selling sophomoric merch.
So far, the only specific promise Harris has made — other than to “defend democracy” and “freedom” — is to eliminate taxes on tips, something she only now embraces because it’s been a winning idea for Trump. (Never mind that she cast the tie-breaking vote for the criminally misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act,” which gave the IRS $80 billion to catch tax cheats, after which it quickly announced plans to crack down on tip income.)
Harris claims she’ll release an economic plan this week that will explain “what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy.” We aren’t holding our breath.
To the press who are supposedly covering Harris, keeping her agenda vague and sticking with scripted remarks is a smart strategy. But that strategy only works if the press lets it. So far they are happily obliging.
When the New York Times reported on Harris’ lack of press access, it spent most of it defending her strategy. It’s “a cautious choice” and “political strategists” say is “exactly what she should be doing.” The Times quotes James Carville saying “Where is it written that you have to sit down for a press interview?”
Time magazine ran a sickly sweet paeon to Harris, even after she refused to sit down with them for an interview.
In a rare bit of honesty, The New Yorker magazine admitted that:
The task of filling in what Harris prefers to leave blank would usually fall to the press. But, to date, there have not been particularly loud or widespread calls for her to sit down and answer questions….I think it’s fair to say that, so far, the mainstream press has handled Harris quite gently.
You don’t say.
The press is — to the surprise of no one — bending over backward to help her win.
When the New York Times ran a headline that was the tiniest bit critical of Harris’ vacuous campaign, it quickly got revised.
Here’s the original:
And here’s the updated version that appeared later in the day.
But there’s a deeper reason for Harris’ hiding from the press. When she had to present a policy agenda in 2019, it was laughably amateurish. And when she talks off the cuff, she comes across as … well … stupid.
Early in Biden’s term, after putting Harris in charge of fixing the “root causes” of the border crisis, she sat down for an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, which was such an epic disaster that she basically avoided sit-down interviews for a year.
That didn’t prevent Harris from displaying her dim grasp on things whenever she spoke extemporaneously, repeating her “unburdened by what has been” line ad nauseam when not waxing philosophically about the “significance of the passage of time.”
Harris has no doubt spent three years preparing for this moment, so maybe she’s improved her skills. But when Americans held prisoner in Russia returned at the start of the month and a reporter asked her how she feels, Harris blurted this:
Issues & Insights @InsightsIssues · Aug 11 Kamala Harris On The Significance of Diplomacy @CSPAN
If she is so sharp and politically savvy and so full of great ideas, you’d think she’d be eager to show off all this off. Why keep her light under a bushel?
Having said all this, the real risk to the country isn’t electing someone who is stupid. It’s electing someone who’s been allowed to hide the fact that she is a hardcore leftist.
That’s what voters will learn about Harris if, God help us, she wins this November.
God help us if the ‘RATs steal this election.
Taken right out of Pelosi’s playbook.
Yes Nazi (rip it to shreds) Pelousy.
You beat me to it. I was going to say “It sounds like Pelosi touting Obamacare. “You have to vote for it to find out what’s in it.”
What’s bad is that she’ll go head to head with Trump in just one debate(so far). It’s limited exposure-works.
What’s worse is that people are so misinformed they’ll vote for her just like the voted for the gimp she works under.
BTTT
Hope and Change 2.0.
I cannot believe any serious American would even consider voting for this fraud. The only reason the RAT turd rollers want her in office is so O’Bambi and the rest of the RAT slobs can run the Government while Jammie Kammie is nothing but a figurehead Queen. America! Get serious. Don’t play along with this joke. If you do, you are making s very serious mistake.
What will stop them? Once counting stops, as ordained by the local urban precinct captains in Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Vegas, and they all enter the books as final votes, who has the standing to do anything other than demand a recount if totals are close? And if the recount shows the same, it is game over.
Hope and oh Joy.
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Yup.
Big media is all in for Kween Kamala.
I don’t know how the Trump camp counters the incessant lies and rewriting of her history on top of making this a contest between privileged white male vs oppressed woman of color.
Problem is too many voters only care about race, gender, and abortion.
I’m predicting several water main breaks in the plumbing at the vote counting buildings on election night if pres Trump is ahead- shutting down voting until morning when Harris suddenly and mysteriously is ahead at the beginning of the counting for the day
Oh, shut up Kamala, We know more about you now than we ever wanted to know.
This just in:
<><>Police recordings now confirm Biden’s medical emergency in Las Vegas last month.
<><>Democrats attempted to sweep the incident under the rug as usual
<><>Dems obedient MSM lapdogs were joined in a fierce struggle
<><>they had to plan and scheme and connive
<><>they had to convince unwary voters that demented Biden was in excellent health.
Harris is receiving the usual Democrat protectionist treatment.
As expected, Harris declined an interview with Time magazine.
And the suck-ups let her get away with it. We, the people, will not.
"Taken right out of Pelosi’s playbook."
Elite, desparate Democrats and RINOs have put the country into a downward spiral and unqualified (imo), puppet presidential candidate Harris is now playing Pelosi games with our heads.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Since worthless incumbent career federal lawmakers and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In other words, it's now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
Yet another pass from the media - who continue to treat Harris as the Second Coming of Christ - while vilifying and hammering Trump constantly.
We know what she’s for and it’s all bad her resume is proof of it.
Pretty much . . . . yup.
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