Willie Brown's piece was a hit job. It was vindictive. I will support a Biden-Harris ticket no less enthusiastically than I would any other Biden pairing. I have written my concerns of Senator Harris twice now, once at substantial length. I am not even going to summarize, much less repeat. I do not understand why this has to be. Senator Harris has pissed off a guy who once was very helpful to her politically and who she dated for two years twenty years ago. She did so in the most dismissive, ingratious manner. "His career is over," Harris said of Willie Brown in 2003, her first run for San Francisco D.A. "I do not owe him a thing,"
She offended Joe and Jill Biden. She was considered a friend of the Bidens, had been to their home, met Jill, knew Beau. Yet, on June 27, 2019 in a debate, Harris interrupted to say that she wanted to speak "on the issue of race." Which race she didn't specifically specify at the time, whether Jamaican Black or Indian or Quebecois. She then turned directly to Biden and said that Biden's comments that he had been able to work with Senator James O. Eastland and Senator Herman Talmadge had been "very hurtful" to her personally because Biden's opposition to federally forced school busing to promote integration in America had affected her personally. "A little girl in California", Harris said directly to Biden,"was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me." One can see how that would surprise and hurt the Bidens. She wasn't bused to Westmont High School In Quebec, Canada which she intended later. She "rubs people the wrong way," a lot of people; she goes out of her way to put down people who were or who would be her benefactors, in personal, hurtful terms She discards people. She breezily dismissed her busing remarks to Biden with a laugh that "it was just politics." She does not stand on the shoulders of giants, she tramples them down in her power heels, says she owes them nothing and blows off the hurtful trampling she administers.
So I don't want to hear from the Harris people that "too ambitious" as applied to her is dog-whistling misogynism. It is not. A person who says those things and acts as she acts—as entitled as an American Black woman, which she is not—is the instantiation of "too ambitious," whether the speaker and actor were man or woman. I am so sick of Kamala Harris right now--the answer to the question in the title is, obviously, "I don't know", and it is disconcerts me.
Then there is this: in a search whose rule uber alles was "do no harm," the Biden campaign has managed to do harm to the ticket whomever the candidate chooses. There will be a narrowing of the gap in the polls after Biden names his veep. He is going to piss off some important Democratic constituency or voting bloc in a state. So I am positively furious at the Biden campaign for answering that question tautologically, "Because we need this drama."
I'm going to let it go! Poof! see? gone! Apparently it was meant to be. Biden campaign, you broke it, you own it. Let it be. Let’s go.
She offended Joe and Jill Biden. She was considered a friend of the Bidens, had been to their home, met Jill, knew Beau. Yet, on June 27, 2019 in a debate, Harris interrupted to say that she wanted to speak "on the issue of race." Which race she didn't specifically specify at the time, whether Jamaican Black or Indian or Quebecois. She then turned directly to Biden and said that Biden's comments that he had been able to work with Senator James O. Eastland and Senator Herman Talmadge had been "very hurtful" to her personally because Biden's opposition to federally forced school busing to promote integration in America had affected her personally. "A little girl in California", Harris said directly to Biden,"was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me." One can see how that would surprise and hurt the Bidens. She wasn't bused to Westmont High School In Quebec, Canada which she intended later. She "rubs people the wrong way," a lot of people; she goes out of her way to put down people who were or who would be her benefactors, in personal, hurtful terms She discards people. She breezily dismissed her busing remarks to Biden with a laugh that "it was just politics." She does not stand on the shoulders of giants, she tramples them down in her power heels, says she owes them nothing and blows off the hurtful trampling she administers.
So I don't want to hear from the Harris people that "too ambitious" as applied to her is dog-whistling misogynism. It is not. A person who says those things and acts as she acts—as entitled as an American Black woman, which she is not—is the instantiation of "too ambitious," whether the speaker and actor were man or woman. I am so sick of Kamala Harris right now--the answer to the question in the title is, obviously, "I don't know", and it is disconcerts me.
Then there is this: in a search whose rule uber alles was "do no harm," the Biden campaign has managed to do harm to the ticket whomever the candidate chooses. There will be a narrowing of the gap in the polls after Biden names his veep. He is going to piss off some important Democratic constituency or voting bloc in a state. So I am positively furious at the Biden campaign for answering that question tautologically, "Because we need this drama."
I'm going to let it go! Poof! see? gone! Apparently it was meant to be. Biden campaign, you broke it, you own it. Let it be. Let’s go.
