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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:
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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...
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!
CZJ on post 1!
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posted on
10/12/2024 11:54:10 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let me tell you why, Mo. Epstein. Diddy. And payback. That’s why the fierce urgency.
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posted on
10/12/2024 11:54:40 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
Ah never mind. I misread the headline. I thought it said “Why the fierce urgency”
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posted on
10/12/2024 11:55:35 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This leftist rag doesn’t have spellcheck?
“whinged“
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posted on
10/12/2024 11:59:58 AM PDT
by
stanne
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
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posted on
10/12/2024 11:59:59 AM PDT
by
thinden
(Buckle up …..)
To: thinden
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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...))
To: All
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.
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posted on
10/12/2024 12:02:48 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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.
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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.)
To: mmichaels1970
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posted on
10/12/2024 12:04:43 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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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...)
To: Jim Noble
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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...)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Kamala spent a week answering questions on '60 Minutes' and 'The View.'"If Carville believes she is giving meaningful answers, he is losing it.
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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. )
To: HombreSecreto
“ CZJ on post 1!”
It makes all posts better. Kind of like BASF…we don’t make [blank], we make [blank] better.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That urgency only exists in pitiful little minds such as yours Maureen Dowd.
To: skinny old man
Does anyone worth their salt actually read them anymore?!
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posted on
10/12/2024 12:09:17 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: central_va
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posted on
10/12/2024 12:10:00 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
To: Scott from the Left Coast
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posted on
10/12/2024 12:11:24 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
10/12/2024 12:13:17 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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