Funny how times change so quickly. I mean what actually changed? Kamala all of sudden became a great pick? Time did a puff piece on Kamala recently, when just Jan 30, 2024, Time was calling for Biden to choose a new VP with an article titled: Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President
Funny how times change so quickly. I mean what actually changed? Kamala all of sudden became a great pick? Time did a puff piece on Kamala recently, when just Jan 30, 2024, Time was calling for Biden to choose a new VP with an article titled: Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President
This brings me to the matter of Biden’s vice-presidential choice. Kamala Harris, the current holder of the post, shares with Henry Wallace progressive values and a proclivity to verbal infelicities. There are no indications that she would be soft on Russia or otherwise swerve—as Donald Trump has—from mainstream American foreign-policy tenets. But neither are there indications that she has developed, over her three years in the White House, any strong, recognizable convictions on America’s role in the world, or how Washington should exercise global leadership. Equally importantly, she has struggled mightily to move the public on any aspect of policy, even those policies—such as civil rights and immigration—on which she has taken an active interest or prominent role. While Republicans, most notably Donald Trump, have leveled, and will continue to level, ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated charges against Harris, they will be amply justified in making her presence on the ticket a major campaign issue.
The American vice president has only two important constitutional roles: to break tie votes in the Senate, and to sit on presidential death watch. This latter task will be more important under a second Biden presidency than it has been at any time since FDR’s fourth term. Should Biden be re-elected, there is a one in three chance of his vice president taking his job before January 2029. And roughly half the electorate thinks that Harris is not up to the demands of that job.
"This latter task will be more important under a second Biden presidency than it has been at any time since FDR’s fourth term. Should Biden be re-elected, there is a one in three chance of his vice president taking his job before January 2029. And roughly half the electorate thinks that Harris is not up to the demands of that job."
Ummmm, don't tell anyone, but Biden is not running for re-election.
Funny how times change so quickly. I mean what actually changed? Kamala all of sudden became a great pick? Time did a puff piece on Kamala recently, when just Jan 30, 2024, Time was calling for Biden to choose a new VP with an article titled: Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President
https://time.com/6589518/joe-biden-owes-the-country-new-vice-president/
This brings me to the matter of Biden’s vice-presidential choice. Kamala Harris, the current holder of the post, shares with Henry Wallace progressive values and a proclivity to verbal infelicities. There are no indications that she would be soft on Russia or otherwise swerve—as Donald Trump has—from mainstream American foreign-policy tenets. But neither are there indications that she has developed, over her three years in the White House, any strong, recognizable convictions on America’s role in the world, or how Washington should exercise global leadership. Equally importantly, she has struggled mightily to move the public on any aspect of policy, even those policies—such as civil rights and immigration—on which she has taken an active interest or prominent role. While Republicans, most notably Donald Trump, have leveled, and will continue to level, ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated charges against Harris, they will be amply justified in making her presence on the ticket a major campaign issue.
The American vice president has only two important constitutional roles: to break tie votes in the Senate, and to sit on presidential death watch. This latter task will be more important under a second Biden presidency than it has been at any time since FDR’s fourth term. Should Biden be re-elected, there is a one in three chance of his vice president taking his job before January 2029. And roughly half the electorate thinks that Harris is not up to the demands of that job.
"This latter task will be more important under a second Biden presidency than it has been at any time since FDR’s fourth term. Should Biden be re-elected, there is a one in three chance of his vice president taking his job before January 2029. And roughly half the electorate thinks that Harris is not up to the demands of that job."
Ummmm, don't tell anyone, but Biden is not running for re-election.
I know. The Time article was from Jan 30 this year. But they just published a puff piece how she’s the bees knees now just three days ago.
https://time.com/7009317/reintroduction-of-kamala-harris/
Which raises the age-old question: were they lying to us then? Or are they lying to us now? We all know the answer is YES to both.
Ah, I see. I did not realize you were quoting from the article.
Yes, the gaslighting with Harris is quite a shitshow.