Posted on 01/27/2019 7:17:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
OAKLAND — Sen. Kamala Harris began her Democratic campaign for president Sunday with an attack on President Donald Trump and a promise to unify a country deeply riven along social, cultural and political lines.
Speaking from the steps of Oakland’s City Hall plaza to a crowd that spilled over several downtown blocks, Harris depicted her candidacy as a fight against those “trying to sow hate and division.”
“We are here at this moment in this because we must answer a fundamental question,” Harris said. “Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So let’s answer that question, America. We are better than this.”
Though she never mentioned Trump by name, it was clear to whom she referred, as Harris painted a damning portrayal of the president and his actions.
“When we have leaders who bully and attack a free press and undermine our democratic institutions, that’s not our America,” Harris said. “When white supremacists march and murder in Charlottesville, or murder innocent worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue, that’s not our America.”
The speech in Harris’ liberal-leaning hometown came nearly a week after California’s junior senator acknowledged what had long been evident, declaring her presidential candidacy in a symbolic move on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Barely two years into her freshman Senate term, the 54-year-old lawmaker is trying to become the nation’s first black female president....
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Good stuff.
written by DMZ Frank
Thanks.
Tulsi Gabbard once worked on efforts to define marriage as a man and a woman.
She says she now regrets that and is all in on homosexual marriage. But the original sin of having been in favor of traditional marriage, to the extent of working to define marriage in laws and constitutional amendments, may well be unforgivable to today’s Democrats.
Wait, I thought her Canal Zone only became American Territory after Willie Brown started sleeping with her...?
So she succeeded where Stormy Daniels failed?
Ha!
A Jamaican-Hindu phobe. Me too.
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