Posted on 08/23/2022 4:11:21 AM PDT by FarCenter
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In the 17 months since Harris ascended to the nation’s second highest office, she has faced criticism on various fronts, with brickbats thrown in particular at her public persona and perceived lack of management skills.
Those criticisms are becoming all the more concerning given her boss’s age, obvious fragility and cognitive decline.
In the history of the United States, only eight vice presidents have ascended to the Oval Office due to the death of the incumbent. Only three have served in a temporary acting capacity as required under the 25th amendment. Harris is one of them.
With speculation swirling around the president’s physical and mental health, questions are beginning to rise over what a Harris foreign policy might look like in the event that Biden does not live out his term of office.
In this regard, Harris is something of a wildcard. Her record in the Senate showed that she is basically a standard issue liberal hawk.
Yet the national security team she has assembled around her as vice president is in many ways preferable to Biden’s, which has deep ties to the Clinton machine and remains wedded to liberal interventionist ideology that has been responsible for so many of the failures and debacles of US foreign policy witnessed in the 30 years since Bill Clinton took office.
Since March, Harris’ national security team has been quietly steered by a pair of international relations scholar-practitioners, namely national security adviser Philip H Gordon and his deputy Rebecca Lissner.
Gordon and Lissner have credentials that arguably exceed Biden’s own top national security staffer, the ambitious political climber Jake Sullivan. Like the ‘company men’ Biden has surrounded himself, they are competent and (mostly) conventional.
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I’m guessing because kameltoeho is merely incompetent where bidet is purely malicious?
What a bunch of pap.
Why do I get the feeling that they plan to kill off Joe to get sympathy votes in November and try to sell Harris as a wonderful improvement?
Face it! Who ever is controlling Biden will control Harris.
During the Obama administration, Gordon served as the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs during the tenure of secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in which capacity Gordon oversaw the administration’s checkered but ultimately failed “reset” policy with Russia.
Gordon’s departure from that office to assume the role of Middle East policy coordinator at the White House came to be a source of regret for those who placed their hopes in a more productive, less contentious US-Russia relationship.
Gordon’s successor as assistant secretary, Victoria Nuland, the neoconservative former national security adviser to Dick Cheney, has turned out to be the worst possible choice at the worst possible time.
Gordon, unlike the cookie-wielding, regime change enthusiast Nuland, didn’t seek to make waves. One high-ranking former colleague of Gordon’s from the Clinton and Obama administrations praised him with faint praise, telling this reporter “He’s competent and good-natured. Beyond this, nothing remarkable comes to mind.”
What happens when we find out it was Eric Swillwell the whole time.
Exactly!
That's like distinguishing between the smell of one rotting and diseased cesspool and the smell of another rotting and diseased cesspool.
SSDDS.
Same ****, different Deep Stater.
Deep State may not have a deep bench, but it does have a YUGE collection of dunce chairs.
If it was a different administration, I would agree with you. But I think whoever is behind this regime (administration) is handling both the President and Vice President. Nothing will change.
I don’t even take articles like this seriously. She can’t be president even for a few minutes. And the and the Democrats know it.
Sure, she can be prez.
It’s not like we voted for BiteMe.
If we don’t restore our republic, prez is whoever Deep State installs.
And since Deep State doesn’t hire the front office appearance types for brains, Heels Up is very well qualified.
And so it starts..the de-insanification of Harris
Sigh. I know. It is like an enormous and consequential Kabuki Theater.
I used to joke that she was his life insurance policy. Now, I am not so sure it is a joke.
cackle, cackle
The Indo-Jamaican isn’t even eligible, she is not a natural born citizen having been born to TWO foreign nationals with TWO foreign nationalities.
We’ll help and view our allies in the most general empathy and mobilize our best effort to help in some way if possible and call this unity with perseverance for the experience of earnestness, although it is not clear where we have been or what the expected turn of events may bring, even with windmills on every corner, we’ll enjoy the togetherness of synergy.
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