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A Vague, Vacuous TV Interview Didn’t Help Kamala Harris
New York Times ^ | 29th August 2024 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 08/30/2024 6:22:49 AM PDT by Cronos

...She’s vague to the point of vacuous. She struggled to give straight answers to her shifting positions on fracking and border security other than to say, “my values have not changed.” Fine, but she evaded the question of why it took the Biden administration more than three years to gain better control of the border, which it ultimately did through an executive order that could have been in place years earlier. It also doesn’t answer the question of why she reversed her former policy positions — or whether she has higher values other than political expediency.

Harris also relied on a few talking points that may not serve her well in the next two months. She mentioned price gouging, but Americans won’t likely believe that grocery chains with razor-thin profit margins are the real culprit when it comes to their rising food bills. Her $100 billion plan to give first-time home buyers $25,000 in down-payment support is mainly an incentive for ever-higher home prices.

A bigger weakness in the interview was the presence of Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz. Though the Minnesota governor delivered a fine speech at the Democratic National Convention (brightly enhanced by his cheering son Gus), he was transparently evasive in answering Bash’s questions about his misstatement about his military service, false claims about a D.U.I. arrest and misleading statements about his family’s fertility treatments. If there are other lies or untruths in Walz’s record, the campaign ought to get ahead of them now.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alreadyforgotten; cnn; cnninterview; danabash; didntanything; didnthurteither; harris; kamala; lyinkamala
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To: Cronos
After this disaster of an "interview", my opinion has been reinforced that there is simply no way the Democrat/Communist Party -- if they want to maintain their current ice cube's chance in hell of winning the election -- can have Harris participate in a debate! She lacks the intelligence, she lacks the ability, she lacks the political savvy and she most certainly lacks the personality and demeanor to derive even a smidgen of benefit from debating Trump. But, politically, she has to debate him.

The Democrat/Communist Party must come up with something -- anything! -- to stop this debate from happening.

41 posted on 08/30/2024 7:37:00 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: Cronos

“misleading statements about his family’s fertility treatments”

Didn’t hear about that one but then again I have no interest in the gay potato Walz so I’m not seeking out info on him if I can help it.


42 posted on 08/30/2024 7:45:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Cronos

This, is the nyslimes? Wait just a couple of minutes while I go outside to see which side of the barn the sun is coming up on. It is cloudy today so it will take a little longer. Maybe the sun is not moving at all and the world has stopped turning. Paging carlos slim, are you alive?


43 posted on 08/30/2024 7:54:59 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: Republic Rocker

Maybe not under the bus but the NYT is not letting them ride for free anymore. ;-)


44 posted on 08/30/2024 8:03:06 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: glennaro

No doubt, she’ll come down with covid. Oops. Have to “isolate.”


45 posted on 08/30/2024 8:03:15 AM PDT by nfldgirl ( )
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To: Freee-dame
When they say the border is under control, the Dems mean that there are no hordes waiting at the border, but that the migrants are being processed through as fast as possible..

Exactly.

Their version of under control is far different from a normal person's. Make them define their terms before you start talking to them.

46 posted on 08/30/2024 8:05:31 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: wiseprince

They even give them multiple choice answers to choose from.

**Why did you flip flop? Is it because of A, B, or C?***


47 posted on 08/30/2024 8:29:28 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: glennaro
She lacks the intelligence, she lacks the ability, she lacks the political savvy and she most certainly lacks the personality and demeanor to derive even a smidgen of benefit from debating Trump.

All true. Further, she must lack any sense of self-awareness, or she would recognize all those shortcomings. Why would someone with her limitations even want to be president?

48 posted on 08/30/2024 8:30:12 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Boogieman

He said he and his wife underwent YEARS of IVF treatment before being able to have children. Instead, what really happened is that she had to be artificially inseminated, aka intra-uterine insemination. That doesn’t take years. Maybe a few months. IVF (meaning the babies are made in a Petri dish and then placed in her womb) and IUI (babies are made in her womb) are VERY different. He seems to like to “misspeak” if he thinks it will help him politically.

Oh, and I might add, for whatever reason, his swimmers needed a little help getting to her eggs. Is it because they shake hands when they’re intimate? Could be.


49 posted on 08/30/2024 8:38:05 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Moltke

*** Why would someone with her limitations even want to be president?***

Money and/or power.


50 posted on 08/30/2024 8:40:02 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Lizavetta

She is a weed smoking alcoholic. Great.


51 posted on 08/30/2024 8:40:56 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: eastexsteve

Yuppers...
.
Hold Tite Folks
These Marxists Want Us and
They will not go Down
Without A Fight!


52 posted on 08/30/2024 9:16:25 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Cronos

She struggled to give straight answers

Marxist double speak in action Biden winks


53 posted on 08/30/2024 9:28:51 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Her brain is fried.


54 posted on 08/30/2024 10:01:48 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: wiseprince; FamiliarFace

You are exactly right. This “interview” had the classic look of defense attorney for the Dems, prosecutor for Republicans. A defense attorney prepares the questions to give his client a chance to put forth his best positions. The prosecutor job is to expose the person on the stand.


55 posted on 08/30/2024 10:10:45 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: eastexsteve

We currently have no carriers in the Pacific.


56 posted on 08/30/2024 10:15:35 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Lizavetta

I just watched a recorded segment of this morning’s Fox And Friends. Amazingly Rachel Compos Duffy said that the border bill that the Democrats put out is just to have more border agents process more people through faster. She may have said this previously, but I have practically never watched Fox And Friends in the last few years. I’m glad that at least someone has said it on the media.

Trump must be walking a very fine line when he attacks (rightfully so) the border crossers and focuses on the criminals. Most of the ten or so million who have come through have no criminal record but are here to get free stuff. Even people who came illegally 20 or more years ago came to work. Now they are coming for free stuff. It’s almost unbelievable.


57 posted on 08/30/2024 10:28:07 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: Boardwalk

Yes years ago


58 posted on 08/30/2024 10:50:31 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Cronos
Countess Kakula's campaign and the lefty media, remind me of a scene in the movie My Cousin Vinny. The scene, where he is in jail, talking to Ralph Macio, and, he is talking about the case and the prosecutor.

As he does, he holds up a playing card so you can see the large side and he says how the prosecution, will try to make their case look like the face of this card- 4 sides, solid, deep, with substance, etc.. Then he turns it sideways, so you see the edge and he says, in reality, it is thin, empty and lacks any substance, whatsoever.

It fits her to a tee

59 posted on 08/30/2024 11:07:06 AM PDT by Ez2BRepub (Democrats suck)
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To: Freee-dame

Great analogy!


60 posted on 08/30/2024 11:14:19 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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