Posted on 05/17/2019 10:08:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Not so ‘woke’
And then there were 14.
The ranks of white, male Democrats who seem to have surveyed the party’s sprawling primary field and concluded that America clearly needs another president who looks like them continued to expand this week. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio followed in the footsteps of other little-known white dudes such as Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, California Rep. Eric Swalwell, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett, launching their own late-breaking presidential bids.
Bullock and de Blasio’s back-to-back announcements mean that a full 61 percent of the comically vast 23-person Democratic lineup is now made up of white men after the groundbreaking early weeks of the contest, when most of the candidates were women and/or people of color.
Some Democrats were not rejoicing at the news of de Balsio’s candidacy, in particular. “I have no idea what the mayor is doing,” one operative told Yahoo News. “Delusional,” said another.
Yet as skeptical as Dems may be, few have suggested that the latest white guys to declare would be better suited to serve as vice president than as commander in chief.
That dubious honor, it seems, has so far been reserved for candidates of color — black women in particular.
After 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was floated by associates of former Vice President Joe Biden as a possible out-of-the-gate ticketmate — a proposition that Abrams swatted aside, saying, “You don’t run for second place” — the VP speculation has intensified around the only black woman already running for president: California Sen. Kamala Harris.
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She’s just as ineligible for Veep as she is for the presidency. And she knows it - she’s carefully edited her website to avoid giving the facts of her ineligibility.
hirraly crinton
She can strike a blow for feminism! Except she already did with Willie Brown.
If anything, Kamala Harris is even more unpleasant and unlikable than Hillary...but she still has a good chance of being the VP nominee given the 'Rats obsession with identity politics, and I doubt she would turn down the offer.
Yahoo is now commie media. Becuase we're a free society and the best person wins?
And FDR had Prohibition and the Depression helping him, so maybe you're right.
In any case, the only way Harris could win would be in a three-way race with a Never-Trumper running a third party ticket a la Perot, or Teddy R. in 1912. That wouldn't work in 2020, but it could in 2024 or 2028.
Say that again, slowly.
The mainstream media after four years of relentless attacks on Trump has not succeeded in driving down his popularity to Herbert Hoover levels and they have run out of tricks. So Kamala won't have that to give her a boost. The public so far has seen her in the Kavanaugh hearings and in Barr's appearance before the Senate committee as extremely rude and arrogant. I don't think that is how FDR came across. Of course, despite what Joe Biden thinks, he did not appear on TV.
FDR also had a sense of humor. Modern Democrats' idea of humor is making nasty put-downs of people they don't like.
Harris isn’t remotely qualified for her current job.
FDR would have been the first political candidate to appear in talking film, so the country would have seen clips of him on the silver screen giving speeches, as well as hearing him almost regularly on the radio. There are a few examples of this on the FDR Library website, and it is easy to hear how people would have been swayed to support the man, especially in the desperation of the early 30s.
Truman would have been on TV fairly regularly, though Ike was the first to recognize the usefulness of TV for a President, particularly one that has the media's support. And it goes without saying that Trump is the first President to connect with his supporters outside the news media; whether he will be the last remains to be seen.
FDR would have been the first political candidate to appear in talking film, so the country would have seen clips of him on the silver screen giving speeches, as well as hearing him almost regularly on the radio. There are a few examples of this on the FDR Library website, and it is easy to hear how people would have been swayed to support the man, especially in the desperation of the early 30s.
Truman would have been on TV fairly regularly, though Ike was the first to recognize the usefulness of TV for a President, particularly one that has the media's support. And it goes without saying that Trump is the first President to connect with his supporters outside the news media; whether he will be the last remains to be seen.
She isn’t eligible to be VP, Speaker or President, so her campaign is in vain.
She’s an anchor baby born to foreign national parents.
Why wont anyone in the national news media address this?
#It's OK to be White.
Well, as far as I can tell, the only "qualification" to be a U.S. Senator is being a bullshit artist.
Only three sitting U.S. Senators have ever been elected President, and for good reason, although in the media age there has been an upsurge in Senator candidates.
Of the three, I'm sure we can agree that two were disasters in office (and my personal opinion is that all three were). Being a Senator means you never have to make a decision. Being President requires the ability to do that every day, often multiple times.
Anyway, Kamala Harris is as qualified as any other U.S. Senator to be there. Do you think she's LESS qualified than Gillibrand? or Murray? or Klobuchar? or Danang Dick Blumenthal? or, God forbid, "Maggie" Hassan from my own state?
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