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Kamala Harris: Democrats' Anti-Palin
Politico ^ | 12/24/10 | Ben Smith

Posted on 12/24/2010 3:04:31 PM PST by Nachum

It’s easy to understand why Kamala Harris, California’s next attorney general, is being called the future of the Democratic Party, a rising political star in the mold of one of her big supporters — President Barack Obama.

At first glance, the president and Harris have much in common: Both are mixed-race children of immigrants raised by a single mother; both are eloquent, telegenic big-city lawyers with strong liberal credentials who catapulted from relative obscurity to the national stage. And like the first African-American president, Harris has broken a long-standing barrier — she’s California’s first African-American attorney general and the first woman to hold the office.

But Harris, whose position, potential and glamour will most likely give her as high a national profile as she wants, resists the comparisons.

“It’s flattering,” she told POLITICO, just weeks after claiming victory in a photo-finish race against Steve Cooley, her Republican opponent. Nevertheless, “these comparisons make me uncomfortable because I know what I want to do. I am really excited about being attorney general.”

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antipalin; cooley; democrats; freepressforpalin; harris; kamala; kamalaharris
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To: research99
RE: "Kamala Harris’ political career began in Willie Brown’s bed."

Willie "It is not affirmative action at all. The old white boys got taken fair and square" Brown.

That Willie Brown?

Oh great another ultra-liberal and "first African American." This one is the lover of Willie "The [typical] white boys got taken fair and square" Brown.

But as for the "Willie Brown thing"..

"Harris routinely tries to distance herself from her ex-squeeze, whom she hates even talking about. The mere mention of their former liaison makes her shoulders tense, her hands clench, and her eyes narrow. . . [she says vehemently] '[H]e would probably right now express some fright about the fact that he cannot control me. His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing.'"

more..

Ms Harris is trying to "negate the bimbo/sugar daddy imagery propagated by [ultra-leftists Hallinan and Fazio, also running for S.F. DA, 2003] . . . Harris acknowledges that she benefited from her relationship with Brown, but insists there was nothing improper about it. . . . Harris met Brown in 1994 when he was speaker of the state Assembly. She was 29, he was 60."

Long 2003 article here

.. jeez. Now it's 2010 and another first. California's first Department of Just Us.

41 posted on 12/24/2010 4:57:19 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

“...negate the bimbo/sugar daddy imagery propagated by...”

Yes, why would an attractive independent feminists who seeks to become a force in the political world, need a man who was 31 years older that associated with “all the players” anyway?


42 posted on 12/24/2010 5:12:29 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Cheetahcat

The muzzie name is also a tip off..


43 posted on 12/24/2010 5:14:23 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: KoRn
If Obama can carry Virginia, there's good hope that any fellow Marxist can duplicate his success.
44 posted on 12/24/2010 5:31:47 PM PST by MBB1984
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To: muawiyah
We've been through this stuff before.

Yep. I like to believe that America has had its fill of an affirmative action president. The Dems got away with it and we got the big O as a result. That dog don't hunt.

45 posted on 12/24/2010 5:31:51 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (If raising taxes on an activity reduces such an activity, let's tax liberalism to death.)
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To: Mariner

“Another Affirmative Action incompetent”

“She is not incompetent. She is a smart and dedicated communist who endeavors...day and night...to the destruction of everything you hold dear.

Do not underestimate the committed left. One day they will command armies from the slums and do so quite effectively. They will put a battle rifle in the hands of a 23yr old immigrant mother from East LA (she’ll get childcare, of course) and another 5 million like her. And they will tell them to take all we have...after all, the only reason we have anything is because we used and suppressed their people for centuries, killing and eating their babies...”

She can’t make it in the real world so this is the chosen route.


46 posted on 12/24/2010 5:39:05 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

the only thing missing is a hyphen-ated last name.


47 posted on 12/24/2010 5:52:07 PM PST by isom35
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To: Nachum

Does she have a birth certificate?

I mean one from the USA.


48 posted on 12/24/2010 6:11:33 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor not a race relations Czar in the Obama administration.")
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To: Nachum

“The Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club’s annual fall awards reception takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, October 12 at Eight, the nightclub and lounge at 1151 Folsom Street between 7th and 8th streets in San Francisco. Honorees this year include District Attorney Kamala Harris ; the LGBT senior housing group Openhouse; past club co-chair Laura Spanjian; volunteer Kirk Oatman; former Bay Area Reporter political editor Wayne Friday; and lawyer and politico Matthew Rothschild.

Source: The Bay Area Reporter Online Dec. 23,2010


49 posted on 12/24/2010 6:17:19 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Doc Savage

All your Indian/Hindu mom X with black father females belong to us. Alice B. Toklas society awarded to her. Says it all, San Fran scum floater from way back. Corrupt nasty place, that.

About which see the Steve Nary case, shameful on a national level (and why I will not buy anything made by Hormel):
Link: http://amicusveritas.org/AMPLP/chronology.htm

Most recent coverage of Nary, and his denied parole is on WND by Jack Cashill. Kamala Harris had dealings with refusing to take up his case again, as she beat the prior DA who did all this, one Terence Hallinan.


50 posted on 12/24/2010 6:23:41 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: denydenydeny

Great post and well said.
Concise and to the point but you clearly illuminate the conflict and attitude we see in Obama’s writing and conduct.


51 posted on 12/24/2010 6:24:02 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor not a race relations Czar in the Obama administration.")
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To: rollo tomasi
RE: "why would an attractive independent feminists who seeks to become a force in the political world, need a man who was 31 years older that associated with “all the players” anyway?

Great question! To become a force it's more than meeting "all the players" you need to be in touch with all the voters.

Ergo, 2004 and new boyfriend, Phil Bronstein Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. What a deal! Bronstein is inside Hollywood too, I believe.

52 posted on 12/24/2010 6:35:13 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: MBB1984

He didn’t carry VA for long even with the black and the Beltway bandit bedroom community of DC vote. Remarkable political turnaround, even if you include Jim Webb (who may switch to R).


53 posted on 12/24/2010 6:41:43 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Nachum

This chick is black/hindu mix. Not the first anything, FWIW.
But wonder is this some new “untapped” political money connection— ie. since obambi went to Mumbai.

And also wonder, is this trying to contrast democrat “brand” with Nikki Haley (hindu Gov of SC) and Bobby Jindal of LA? Difference being with this Kamala chick (and a considerable liberal history) that Haley and Jindal are true conservatives.


54 posted on 12/24/2010 6:45:46 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: BunnySlippers

Agreed. There could be many qualified with the right way of thinking black Americans who would have made a good President. Trouble is nobama has tainted many American’s view for a long time.


55 posted on 12/24/2010 6:50:44 PM PST by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: Nachum

I get it. Her sole qualification for office is what she looks like.


56 posted on 12/24/2010 7:09:47 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

I don’t think Democrats care about looks: Maxine Waters.


57 posted on 12/24/2010 7:48:32 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Nachum

You make such a gigantic ballyhoo of RACE, Ben. Can we move on to something that really matters?


58 posted on 12/25/2010 7:28:07 AM PST by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: Cheetahcat
And they will tell them to take all we have...after all, the only reason we have anything is because we used and suppressed their people for centuries, killing and eating their babies...”

WE, are giving Gotham back to its people! The rich will be ripped from their decadent nests! Spoils will be enjoyed!

59 posted on 04/05/2013 3:56:24 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: BunnySlippers

Evil ideas always come wrapped in pretty packages.


60 posted on 04/05/2013 3:57:35 PM PDT by Clock King
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