the helplessly inauthentic Kamala Harris
From the first time I heard of Kamala Harris' campaign I've felt like she's the least authentic candidate for President, and whenever I pay more attention to her I keep feeling this way.
I just read an excerpt from a campaign speech she made before the Charleston (South Carolina) chapter of the NAACP where she talked about her decision to become a prosecutor:
“I knew the unilateral power prosecutors had with the stroke of a pen to make a decision about someone else’s life or death, whether someone will be charged or let off,” Harris said. “I knew that it made a difference to have the people making those decisions also be the ones who went to our church, had children in our schools, coached our Little League teams and knew our neighborhoods.”
"Had children in our schools," she said. She never had children! I can find no evidence she ever coached Little League teams either, but she never had children! Why boast about something so central to people's lives when she obviously never did it herself! That would be like me boasting about having children who went to public schools. I can't imagine trying to pull that one off.
Earlier I wrote in here about Harris' attempts to convince black people that she shares their black experience, even though she was raised by her Indian-American mother, grew up in mostly-white Berkeley & Montreal (both of her parents were university professors, her black father was not born in the US), and married a white Jewish guy. Even Kamala's name derives from India. Her attempt to slap on a black personna hasn't worked. [Obama was only 1/2 black, but at least his name was of African origin and he married a black woman and together they had two black children -- and Obama rather infamously attended a black church whose pastor he publicly repudiated during his first campaign. People didn't question Obama's blackness, although some of them stupidly questioned where he was born.]
I think the reason Harris' campaign has failed is because she does not know how to come across as authentic. Politicians lie all the time, but Harris can't even get her personal background right. Her origin story.
Her biggest breakout moment occurred when she criticized Biden during a debate for his 1970s-era positions on busing and school integration. But after the debate when reporters asked Harris about her own position on busing, she backtracked and gave a position that was essentially the same as Biden's. Why launch a high-profile criticism of Biden if you had no follow-up? Find an authentic criticism for your breakout moment at least.
A lot of white liberals were excited about Harris at first, because they could check all their affirmative action boxes at the same time with her candidacy, and they all said things like, "She'd debate circles around Trump," -- but as we saw when she debated a circle around Biden, she's not authentic. She's helplessly inauthentic. Anybody who pays attention to her for a while can tell.
I just read an excerpt from a campaign speech she made before the Charleston (South Carolina) chapter of the NAACP where she talked about her decision to become a prosecutor:
“I knew the unilateral power prosecutors had with the stroke of a pen to make a decision about someone else’s life or death, whether someone will be charged or let off,” Harris said. “I knew that it made a difference to have the people making those decisions also be the ones who went to our church, had children in our schools, coached our Little League teams and knew our neighborhoods.”
"Had children in our schools," she said. She never had children! I can find no evidence she ever coached Little League teams either, but she never had children! Why boast about something so central to people's lives when she obviously never did it herself! That would be like me boasting about having children who went to public schools. I can't imagine trying to pull that one off.
Earlier I wrote in here about Harris' attempts to convince black people that she shares their black experience, even though she was raised by her Indian-American mother, grew up in mostly-white Berkeley & Montreal (both of her parents were university professors, her black father was not born in the US), and married a white Jewish guy. Even Kamala's name derives from India. Her attempt to slap on a black personna hasn't worked. [Obama was only 1/2 black, but at least his name was of African origin and he married a black woman and together they had two black children -- and Obama rather infamously attended a black church whose pastor he publicly repudiated during his first campaign. People didn't question Obama's blackness, although some of them stupidly questioned where he was born.]
I think the reason Harris' campaign has failed is because she does not know how to come across as authentic. Politicians lie all the time, but Harris can't even get her personal background right. Her origin story.
Her biggest breakout moment occurred when she criticized Biden during a debate for his 1970s-era positions on busing and school integration. But after the debate when reporters asked Harris about her own position on busing, she backtracked and gave a position that was essentially the same as Biden's. Why launch a high-profile criticism of Biden if you had no follow-up? Find an authentic criticism for your breakout moment at least.
A lot of white liberals were excited about Harris at first, because they could check all their affirmative action boxes at the same time with her candidacy, and they all said things like, "She'd debate circles around Trump," -- but as we saw when she debated a circle around Biden, she's not authentic. She's helplessly inauthentic. Anybody who pays attention to her for a while can tell.