Posted on 08/14/2020 5:05:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Accused in 2019 of being a serial harasser, Joe Biden did what came naturally. He apologized for perceived past misbehavior, and, to appease his accusers, pledged to choose a woman to join the Biden ticket. Then, observing the racially-fueled rage that erupted after the death of George Floyd under the knee of a white Minneapolis cop, Biden reacted again. He put out word that he would be looking closely for a black woman to run with.
Thus did Joe paint himself into a corner. For there was no black female governor of any state in the Union, and there was only one black woman in the U.S. Senate: Kamala Harris.
This presented a problem. In the first debate, Harris had charged Biden with colluding with segregationist senators in the '70s to block the busing of school children for racial balance. Harris introduced the toxic charge against Biden with this sweet upfront concession: "I don't believe you are a racist."
This Tuesday, Biden made a virtue out of necessity. He chose Harris to run with him, doing so just one day after receiving a letter from one hundred prominent black men, led by rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs and radio host Charlamagne tha God, that read like an ultimatum:
"For too long Black women have been asked to do everything from rally the troops to risk their lives for the Democratic Party with no acknowledgment, no respect, no visibility, and certainly not enough support.
"Failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election. ... We don't want to choose between the lesser of two evils and we don't want to vote for the devil we know versus the devil we don't because we are tired of voting for devils -- period."
Astonishing. Here are prominent black Democrats describing the candidates they have had to support in recent years -- Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Biden -- as "devils" and the "lesser of two evils."
Last Friday, 700 "Concerned Black Women Leaders" delivered a similar letter to Biden demanding he put a black woman on the ticket. Wednesday, Biden complied.
But after the media ovation for Biden's selection of Harris dies down, a new reality will emerge. Before winning her Senate seat in 2016, Harris was a prosecutor and two-term attorney general of California who established a reputation for being tough on petty criminals.
Biden, as chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, has also taken pride in helping craft the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which dramatically increased incarcerations and disproportionately affected black men.
However, Black Lives Matter, with its battle cry of "defund the police!" has pulled the Democratic Party sharply to the left on the issue of crime and cops.
Yet today, two months after Floyd's death, mayors and cops in Democratic cities are still bedeviled by rioters, looters, arsonists, anarchists and a criminal class that settles its quarrels with nightly killings and weekend shootouts. The public is getting fed up. People want their cops back, and leftist politicians and police are coming into increasing conflict.
The black police chief of Seattle, Carmen Best, has retired rather than carry out the city's decision to cut 50 percent of her budget. Elected officials in New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis have approved plans to reduce police budgets. Meanwhile, shooting and killings are going up in almost every city, including D.C. and New York, where more have died of gunshot wounds in 2020 than died all last year.
The president has staked out his position, and it does not lack for clarity. President Donald Trump embraces the phrase "law and order," denounces the "defund-the-police" movement as promoting anarchy, and offers federal aid and agents to cities that request help. He calls on mayors and governor to demand the National Guard to deal with the crisis and condemns them for their chronic failure to safely secure the cities they have run for decades.
Trump has been accused of taking us back to the Nixon era.
But 1968 was the culmination of a decade of soaring crime the likes of which the nation had not known. At its convention in Chicago, the Democratic Party was ripped apart by anarchic violence and the police response. In late September, even Hubert Humphrey was denouncing the "fascists" shouting him down at every appearance.
Undeniably, Trump has his problems. But it is not certain that Biden's sheltering in his basement and issuing his milquetoast responses to Portland and Seattle, and to the shootings, lootings and killings in Chicago, will prevail on November 3 over Trump's boisterous campaign call to crack down on criminals, go back to school, get back to work and "play ball."
Biden-Harris looks like a ticket content to sit on its lead and ride to victory in November, the way Governor Dewey did in 1948.
LOL
More like Mondale/Ferraro. VP from the previous administration and a leftist woman from the Congress.
Except Harris isn't a black women and the African American community doesn't even accept her as such. She is strongly disliked in the African American as trying to pass herself off as an "African American" (which is why she did abysmally among black voters in the primary (4th behind three white people Biden, Sanders and Warren) despite the liberal media assuring them she was black"
Truth is her mother was from India and her father was 1/2 white, 1/2 Indo-Jamaican (Jamaican Indian). So if Harris has any African blood at all it's on her father's side and you would have to go back a couple generations to find it.
It would make sense that the Dems resemble the Dewey campaign of 1948, because Trump continues to resemble the Harry Truman campaign of 1948, except that they’ve made it harder to do whistle stops, but he’s coping.
Mondale-Ferraro is more like it.
How about Dukakis-Bensen?
McGovern-Eagleton-Shriver?
Nope.
Hillary's and Timmy's
He didn’t promise to keep her on the ticket.I bet she wants off but I doubt even Mayor Pete would join that mess. They have no options nobody wants to be with Biden.Hillary might end up being last black women standing.
Kamala Harris Sponsored Bill to FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports<>
24News ^ | 08-12-2020 |
Samantha Foster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. . In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls,..
HERE’S HOW THEY TREAT CONSERVATIVE Congressional DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT STUFF LIKE THIS and why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem Congress
Democrats weren’t happy with his votes against abortion and on being the only democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports.
Those who live in Chicago already voted at their local public library. But in the reshaped 3rd Congressional district Daniel Lipinski lost because of redistricting. Which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd in a district that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway Wards which were reliable Dan’s father William O Lipinski supporters. But since most had areas with hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to Gutieriez’s district. Those results are posted below which actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.
http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm
Actually, the parallels between this year and 1972 are eerie.
- prominent democrat runs for presidency but loses the nomination to a younger, more charismatic guy, who wins in November (Humphrey/Clinton 1960/2008)
- eight years later, same democrat runs again, this time winning the nomination but loses in November to a Republican who is viscerally hated by the left (1968/2016)
- there’s a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year, president nominates successor but Senate never votes to confirm (Earl Warren/Antonin Scalia, Abe Fortas/Merrick Garland)
- the left protests the new republican president’s inauguration and protests continue throughout his term (Nixon/Trump)
- despite this, republicans gain senate seats in the midterms (1970/2018)
- democrats can’t help themselves and go full-on, foaming at the mouth leftist
- Nixon reelected in 49 state landslide (1972)
Will the historical parallel continue? We’ll see.
Actually, they're not.
2020 will see massive voter fraud that may very well enable the DNC/CPUSA/CCP/NAZI party top steal the election.
Oh my goodness, I’d almost forgotten about Creepy Kaine. He was one strange man.
I hope you DO forget about him tonight; when you are trying to sleep!
Dewey is the much better comparison. Favored to win, blew it by trying to coast.
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