Kamala’s superficial speech shows she’s not yet ready for the presidency

The Telegraph via MSN.com ^ | AUgust 23, 2024 | Jake Wallis Simons

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Few people would suggest that Kamala Harris is an outstanding orator. Her acceptance speech last night got off to a guttering start, dwelling for too long on a rendition of her backstory before she got into her stride.

After a bit of meandering, however, the section that roused the audience was the one that is perhaps distinguished by its divisiveness: foreign policy. Particularly the war in Gaza, the subject of rowdy and disturbing Left-wing protests outside the convention centre in downtown Chicago, which saw the immolation of an American flag.

Before backing into that quagmire, she stoked the energy in the hall. “As Commander-in-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world,” she said. Great stuff. Can you imagine a British leader, even one from the Right, being so bold? Much applause.

Harris compounded the bombast by vowing to ensure that “America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st century and that we strengthen, not abdicate, our global leadership.” This she contrasted with Trump’s threats to abandon Nato and his bizarre remark that so far as he was concerned, the Russians could do “whatever the hell they want” if the Europeans didn’t pay their way. Everything was going swimmingly.

With the stage thus set, Harris launched into the thorny matter of Israel. This is the point where it all got a little bit Alice Through The Looking Glass. Hamas seemed to get off rather lightly; and Iran – the head of the octopus which has wrapped its tentacles around the region and is reaching into London and Washington – almost escaped altogether.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Skank has the intelligence of a Junior High School dropout, like those who plan to vote for her.

[poconopundit]

The woman is a moron. A DEI moron.

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Sounds like Harris aims to prove H. L. Mencken's prediction (last paragraph below):

[When] a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.

So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. ... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. 

We move toward a lofty ideal.  On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken 1920 (Wikiquote)

[Fireone]

Absolutely nailed it with that quote!
I’m amazed at how fast we arrived at this point!

[Bratch]

From our generation's Mencken.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Uh huh.
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An ignorant Communist who should be locked up for life in the same cell with Obama, Hillary, Willie, Nancy, Chucky, Joey, and the other Willie!

[poconopundit]

Yes, it’s absolutely true. But George Carlin’s foul language wouldn’t work on everybody — and would be banned on FR. I’ll settle for mean tweets from another master of the English language and publicity: Donald J. Trump.