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Where Is the Fierce Urgency of Beating Trump?
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 12, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 10/12/2024 11:52:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Barack Obama got blunt in Pittsburgh on Thursday. He chided Black men who are not supporting Kamala Harris, saying that some of “the brothers” were just not “feeling the idea of having a woman as president.”

That left me mulling again: Is Harris in a dead-even race against a ridiculous person because of her sex or is that just an excuse?

Hillary Clinton did not lose because she was a woman. She lost because she was Hillary Clinton. She didn’t campaign hard enough, skipping Wisconsin and barely visiting Michigan. She got discombobulated about gender and whinged about sexism.

I asked James Carville if Kamala’s problem is that too many Americans are still chary about voting for a woman, much less a woman of color. The Ragin’ Cajun chided me.

“We’re not going to change her gender or her ethnic background between now and Election Day, so let’s not worry about it,” he said. “Time is short, really short. They need to be more aggressive. They don’t strike me as having any kind of a killer instinct. They let one fat pitch after another go by. I’m scared to death. They have to hit hard — pronto.”

Her campaign, he said dryly, “is still in Wilmington.”

Kamala spent a week answering questions on “60 Minutes” and “The View” and on the shows of Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern. And she didn’t move the needle.

“She needs to stop answering questions and start asking questions,” Carville said. He thinks that, for her closing message, she should put the issue of Jan. 6 and who won the election on the back burner.

Instead, he said, she should ask:


(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: blackmen; cackles; campaign; kamala; maureendowd; obama; obamanation; trump
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Kamala spent a week answering questions on “60 Minutes” and “The View” and on the shows of Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern. And she didn’t move the needle.

Cackling maniacally is not "answering questions."

And, before I forget...


1 posted on 10/12/2024 11:52:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!

CZJ on post 1!


2 posted on 10/12/2024 11:54:10 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let me tell you why, Mo. Epstein. Diddy. And payback. That’s why the fierce urgency.


3 posted on 10/12/2024 11:54:40 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Ah never mind. I misread the headline. I thought it said “Why the fierce urgency”


4 posted on 10/12/2024 11:55:35 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This leftist rag doesn’t have spellcheck?

“whinged“


5 posted on 10/12/2024 11:59:58 AM PDT by stanne
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To: libh8er

Let me tell you why, Mo. Epstein. Diddy. And payback. That’s why the fierce urgency.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think you’re on to something, libh8er


6 posted on 10/12/2024 11:59:59 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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Screw ny slimes...


7 posted on 10/12/2024 12:01:20 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: All

NYT blowin it up today.


8 posted on 10/12/2024 12:01:35 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They don’t have to beat him in the election.

As 2017-2021 demonstrates, the entire government can rise up against him and paralyze his ability to do anything major.

And this time, they are preparged.


9 posted on 10/12/2024 12:02:48 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Fierce urgency”
“Beating”
“Dead-even”
“Time is short”
“Killer instinct”
“I’m scared to death”
“Hit hard”

...All are dog whistles for another assassination attempt.


10 posted on 10/12/2024 12:03:43 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (No one is above the law, but some are more above the law than others.)
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NYT blowin it up today.

Yep. The panic is setting in.

Also from today's NYT: This Election Will Need More Heroes (Dogwhistle for "please send more assassins")

11 posted on 10/12/2024 12:04:43 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The rules!!!!


12 posted on 10/12/2024 12:06:22 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jim Noble

FR Eeyore strikes again.


13 posted on 10/12/2024 12:07:58 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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"Kamala spent a week answering questions on '60 Minutes' and 'The View.'"

If Carville believes she is giving meaningful answers, he is losing it.

14 posted on 10/12/2024 12:08:32 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: HombreSecreto

“ CZJ on post 1!”

It makes all posts better. Kind of like BASF…we don’t make [blank], we make [blank] better.


15 posted on 10/12/2024 12:08:49 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That urgency only exists in pitiful little minds such as yours Maureen Dowd.


16 posted on 10/12/2024 12:08:51 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: skinny old man

Does anyone worth their salt actually read them anymore?!


17 posted on 10/12/2024 12:09:17 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: central_va

18 posted on 10/12/2024 12:10:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

19 posted on 10/12/2024 12:11:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

20 posted on 10/12/2024 12:13:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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