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Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass
The Atlantic ^ | July 13, 2020 | Edward-Isaac Dovere

Posted on 07/13/2020 8:04:59 AM PDT by ripnbang

"The first time Representative Karen Bass heard Joe Biden talk about the car crash that killed his wife and infant daughter, she dropped into her chair, overwhelmed.

It was 2008, and Bass was watching the Democratic National Convention video introducing Biden as the party’s vice-presidential nominee. Less than two years earlier, Bass’s daughter and son-in-law had died in a car crash on the 405. Bass, then in her 50s, had thrown herself into her job as the speaker of the California assembly and hoped to get past the pain. But there was Biden, 36 years after the tragedy that shattered his family, still talking about the magnitude of his loss. “I had this moment,” Bass told me, “where I had to come to grips with the fact that losing my daughter and son-in-law was always going to be a part of the narrative of who I am.”

Four years later, as Biden and Barack Obama were being reelected, Bass won a seat in the House, representing parts of Los Angeles. But she didn’t tell Biden what he’d meant to her until this March, when she introduced him at a Super Tuesday chicken-and-waffles event. “We both just shared that you learn how to get up in the morning,” she told me. “You learn how to live, but your life is fundamentally changed, dramatically changed......”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; election
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Trial balloon as Kamala Harris and Val Demings are persona non gratis due to their law enforcement backgrounds, Harris as California AG and Demings as Orlando PD Chief (I believe her husband was Orange County [FL] Sheriff at same time and now Orange County Mayor)?
1 posted on 07/13/2020 8:04:59 AM PDT by ripnbang
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To: ripnbang

Biden has been riding the sympathy for his wife’s death for his entire career.


2 posted on 07/13/2020 8:06:33 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ripnbang

Nauseating.


3 posted on 07/13/2020 8:08:28 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ripnbang

He wants to smell her hair?!


4 posted on 07/13/2020 8:08:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: ripnbang

I feel like it is going to be Susan Rice since they need to shield her from the FISA abuse mess.


5 posted on 07/13/2020 8:08:50 AM PDT by lerker
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To: ripnbang

Karen Bass is very liberal, from what I hear.

She could be a choice for Joe, based on not being very known nationally. The media will define her for us, and will swoon over her. The media will give her the opposite treatment they gave to Sarah Palin, who was also not well known nationally when selected as McCain’s running mate.


6 posted on 07/13/2020 8:09:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ripnbang

She has nice hair? Off to read, now...


7 posted on 07/13/2020 8:10:07 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: ripnbang

Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass......her hair smells good?............


8 posted on 07/13/2020 8:11:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: MortMan

Figures her name is Karen .....


9 posted on 07/13/2020 8:12:38 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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will someone please post her pic? Definitely guilty.


10 posted on 07/13/2020 8:12:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: lerker

I’m with you in regards to Rice.


11 posted on 07/13/2020 8:12:49 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: ripnbang

Is Karen Bass the one with a habit of praising Fidel Castro?
I’m getting my Karens mixed up.


12 posted on 07/13/2020 8:13:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: ripnbang

The Atlantic - a Yugo pretending to be a Lexus.
No, make that a Trabant pretending to be a Lexus.


13 posted on 07/13/2020 8:15:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Does she resemble an eight year old?


14 posted on 07/13/2020 8:15:24 AM PDT by dainbramaged (That information is classified. Request denied.)
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To: ripnbang

Karen?! LOL ... have fun with that.


15 posted on 07/13/2020 8:18:11 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: ripnbang

I can see the VP debates now ... Pence will refer to her as “Karen” and the press will say he’s insulting her.


16 posted on 07/13/2020 8:19:52 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass

Biden has had his eyes on lots of women, and much-too-young girls, over the years.


17 posted on 07/13/2020 8:21:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Col Frank Slade

It looks like _we_ have brainwashed the mass media—now they _want_ a Karen.

;-)


18 posted on 07/13/2020 8:24:39 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Karen Bass is so far left you can’t even find her on the radar.

A nightmare for this country is she happened to become president after Biden’s dementia blows up.


19 posted on 07/13/2020 8:27:08 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Rummyfan

What hair?


20 posted on 07/13/2020 8:28:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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