Posted on 10/07/2020 7:34:22 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson
I approached the Vice Presidential debate this evening with one question: "What is Kamala Harris like?" I'd conveniently missed the primary debates so my impression of the woman was basically unformed.
Unformed but not unbiased. No one is unbiased as the tenor of moderator Susan Page's questions clearly showed.
I've heard the usual tittle-tattle about Kamala's personal life, but being a MAGA Conservative, I'm focused on the issues, not personalities. I already know what Kamala stands for, or rather doesn't stand for, Protection of the unborn coming to mind.
Still, being an inveterate people watcher, I wanted to know how Kamala would come off during the Vice Presidential debate against one of the most active, visible and loudly Christian Vice Presidents in recent memory. I know Donald Trump ain't no gentleman, thank God, because he took names and kicked Joe's ass in the last debate.
How would Kamala relate to Mike Pence? Predictably, the debate began with that beaten-to-death topic of coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. As usual, the questions were obviously slanted against the current administration, touching on the 25th Amendment (transfer of power) with Kamala's talking point being "dead bodies." We get it, Kamala, you're plenty graphic. These are our family members you're talking about. Referring to them as "dead bodies" did you no favors.
Kamala's answers were stock Democrat. Beating the same drum the Democrats have beaten since the days of Will Rogers. Republicans are just for the wealthy. Republicans deny science. Answers so pat, so unimaginative, so predictable that I caught myself zoning out when Kamala spoke. I've heard Democrats say the same things for forty years. Their claims are no more true now than they were in 1984!
But my ears perked up when Kamala again referred to herself as "Black" while, according to Reuters, "the press, as well as Kamala Harris herself, have continually described her racial identity as Black, South Asian, Indian-American, African-American, and Jamaican-American." Personally, I wish she'd be consistent. It feels, in my opinion, that she selects her race depending on each situation.
Of course, the issue of President Trump's taxes rapidly followed coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. When Kamala brought up the debt that any businessman carries, including Trump, she looked into the camera to clarify for the apparently stupid American public by saying that "debt" means "you owe money to somebody."
Thank you for that, Kamala. We had no idea.
Yes, my fellow Americans, Kamala does think you're an idiot.
In fact, throughout the entire debate I found Kamala to embody condescension. Now, as a quiet person, I've been condescended to a lot in my life, usually by women on power trips who later showed themselves to inept. So I'm something of a self-taught expert on condescension and Kamala's condescension was, in my opinion, vile. It did her no favors as a woman nor as a politician.
But she could be funny too, perhaps inadvertently. When she said Joe is "honest and forthright," I chuckled. He certainly is forthright about his racism and his more-than-creepy interest in the little children he fondles on camera.
Honesty is to not need a teleprompter because you speak from the heart. Trump needs no teleprompters because he is honest. Biden can't do an interview without one.
Now, no one was more grateful for the increased civility during this debate than I was. But it's a debate, for Pete's sake! Some talking over, some spirited back-and-forth is as true to debate as it is to the American spirit. We don't want it too sanitized.
But when Mike Pence dared to call Kamala out for not telling the truth immediately after she claimed the debate was about truth, Kamala again showed her condescension by speaking down to the Vice President of the United States.
Joe told the President of the United States to "shut up." Kamala raised your eyebrows, talked down to and treated the VP Pence like a naughty child.
As my husband said, "If the Democratic ticket treats the Executive Branch with such condescension, imagine how they'll treat the middle class."
Their condescension knows no end. They tout long-debunked myths about Trump's supposed disrespect to our men and women in uniform, again insulting our intelligence quite ignoring Joe calling them "stupid bastards." But condescension is also flip-flopping on the issues as we won't notice: "They were for the Green New Deal, before they were against it, before they were for it!"
Well, which is it?!?
I couldn't believe it when Kamala said, "Y'know what a bounty is?" and then defined it for us. Um, we know what a bounty is just as we know what debt is. We're not stupid, Kamala.
Heavy sigh.
On the topic of packing the Supreme Court, she condescended to Pence's summation of the history with a sarcastic coo of, "I'm so glad we went through that history lesson," and when Pence pressed her to actually answer the question, she again talked down to the VP Pence. The bright smile. The raised eyebrows. The nodding. She was obviously on a power trip and it reflected badly on Kamala, not on Mike Pence, ever the gentleman.
There's much talk about toxic masculinity. I feel we just witnessed toxic feminism.
Later she snapped, "I will not sit here and be lectured." Actually, she said it twice.
It seems there are two standards on that stage. She lectures Pence but he is not free to share the details of Kamala's voting record. He wasn't lecturing. She did...repeatedly.
From only a personality perspective, Mike Pence comported himself calmly, intelligently and as the gentleman he is. It's nice to see a Christian with the strength of character and strength of VP Pence.
Kamala was a worthy opponent and debater but her attitude did her no favors. Condescension looks good on no one and yes, my fellow Americans, Kamala demonstrated repeatedly that, yes, she does think you're an idiot.
How does it feel?
No, Hillary has the whole arrogance of “it’s so hard to find good help these days” thing going on, whereas Kamala is more the effect of trying to play sleazy saxophone music on a kazoo.
I can’t believe these questions! What trash!!!
She is so unlikable I feel sorry for her children. No wonder she was terrible in the primary.I luckily had prerecorded something else to watch. She was unwatchable.Now I see why the Bidens don’t want her around.
Like Donna Brazille said to Karl Rove...”she ain’t gonna marry you”...what was that all about?
“frank luntz is full of it.”
LOL! I forgot about that guy. He’s still around? Must be too legit to quit.
I haven’t watched tv in 8 years.
DEPROGRAMMING myself. No, really. I quit after Charlie Kraut’s analysis of a debate I had just watched, listened and processed. He was FOXY too. That was it for me.
No regrets.
It could be argued that Harris is not a natural born citizen by her own admission tonight. Shesyayed her mother came to the United States when her mother was 19 years old. Her mother then had Kamala when she was 26. That is not enough time to even be a citizen in the United States as it takes 7 years to become a citizen. By Kamala’s own admission her mother was in the United States for only 6 years before her mother gave birth to her. Her mother coming into the US at 19 and having her at 26 are her own words. She does not qualify to become President should Hiden Biden be elected and then for whatever reason no longer to be able to function as the POTUS.
The argument in the past right here on Freeper is that a natural born citizen is one where both parents are a citizen of the United States. Some have argued only one has to be. Whatever the case Harris’ mother could not have been a citizen at he time of her birth.
As to her being black, she is of India-Jamaican descent. We will leave it at that. Or today, as the black NOI mooslime leftist radio announcer emphatically said on the top local talk radio station, “Kamala is not black”.
FR won’t allow a story from Zero Hedge, but here is the title:
VP Debate Post-Mortem: Pence Trounces “Gaffe Machine” Harris
Only thing is......in 4 months,Biden will be hooked up to a drool cup in a home basement and she will be president.
When the moderator between question 2 and 3 said That’s a good seguay
to our next question and Kampala said, “yes it is”....how did she know what the next question was?
This woman makes several great observations. Let me say this: as an attorney who has tried a couple hundred jury trials, I have won more than a few cases that I had no business winning based on the immature behavior of the opposing lawyer. The eyerolls, the signs, the histrionics. Women, especially, hate this stuff. And twice she DEFINED words for the audience: “Do you know what debt is? It’s when you owe someone!” and “Do you know what a bounty is....?” OMG, I heard a groan all over my neighborhood. Finally, the damn moderator was so biased it wasn’t funny.
I guess I’ll enjoy an Enjoy By now and go back to sleep. It’ll calm me down. I has a calming effect. I haven’t had any in a couple of days. Thanks to all analysis from FReepers. FReeper analysis is objective analysis.
She is Elizabeth Warren with better hair.
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You can tell he was a Republican Senator because he refused to say Hunter Biden’s name.
She was going on and on about Joe’s integrity, they she went to the Russian Hoax, once again, and Pence should’ve said, really - The Mayor of Moscow sent Hunter Biden $3.5 Million dollars.
A little fire in the belly would’ve been nice.
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Enjoy By Halloween - Stone Brewing, San Diego CA.
I was very thankful that she defined ‘debt’ and ‘bounty’ for me because I didn’t know what those words meant.
Exactly! Her biggest accomplishment——Willie Brown’s Misstress’.
Then filling the seat of the stupidest (woman) in state of California Barbara Boxer-————
I lived in California for 25 years—great weather, geography, lifestyle...people are dumber than mud.
Why doesn’t the Don and Michael just spell it out to the American people: Joe’s repeal on day one on the Trump tax cut will mean an increase in your individual tax rate. Let’s say before Trump’s tax cut you were paying 21%. After Trump’s tax cut you pay 15%. A repeal would mean it would go back to the 21% rate. This would be an increase in taxes of 6%. Some people may not put the two and two together because they had Kommon Kore ejuumucashun.
Kamala Harris is black !? Who knew?...
She sure doesn’t look like a black to me and I would be willing to bet you that her narrative of being a participant in a bussing program in Oakland in her youth is pure hokum. Real blacks would have been asking “ who’s the little white gal?”
Here in Hawaii we have a non- discriminatory non- racist term for people like her . It’s called > Hapa < 1/2-1/2. Harris is Hapa, Obama is Hapa. Losds of people here in Hawaii are Hapa and there’s nothing at all wrong with that and there is zero discrimination about being Hapa. The big difference is that Mainland Hapa, like Obama and Harris usually declare themselves as ‘ blacks ‘, even if they do not appear to be black at all. In the case of both Harris & Obama , NEITHER are even Afro- Anerican blacks , neither have Amerucab black ancestors , and neither have any black Anerican slave ancestors. Yet BITH milk that skin color , or partial , slight shade of skin color, for all it’s worth! Harris’ ancestors were in fact Jamaucan SLAVE OWNERS! While Obama’s were murdering Kenyan Mau-mau’s ....The amazing thing to me is that ANY genuine American black have gone for this shallow race-riding , od either of these two race-baiting hapa ....Many do NOt, and we are about to find out. What a couple of phonies.... Yo! Senator Tim Scott! Run for President some day and you can legitimately talk about being black in America, all day long . But not Obama or Harris . Fake Blacks
Imagine, if you will, a scenario where Kamala Harris were Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in time of war.— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 8, 2020
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