9 thoughts on “Kamala Harris: “America does not want to witness a food fight. They want to know how we are going to put food on their table.””

  1. She did well

    On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 7:25 PM IMPERFECT PATIENCE wrote:

    > janpriddyoregon posted: “Kamala Harris: “America does not want to witness > a food fight. They want to know how we are going to put food on their > table.”” >

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    • She did. I expected it, but I was disappointed at the post-debate responses and chosen tag lines. We watched both “debates” and some people came across better than I expected, some were disappointing. The news keeps quoting the wrong lines from people. Williamson had one very smart observation (not well stated), but she was right that detailed plans are not going to win the election, a hopeful vision is what America needs—don’t tell America who we are, but give us the vision of who we want to be.

      Wait for it, I have been dying to say this for four years: Biden has too much baggage. I never trusted Biden, not since the mess he made of the Anita Hill’s testimony. He is always too anxious to please, like the kid trying to play with the popular kids. He was on shaky ground from the beginning, literally unsteady. Castro had not been on my radar at all before Wednesday, and we liked him a lot. Warren is smart and steady and a very likely candidate. We were impressed by Buttigieg, a smart and thoroughly decent person. Gillibrand was saying important things, but is a target for misogynists. Bernie is just ego—people talk as if he invented the idea of national health care when he actually came pretty late to that party. He claims to be a socialist, but he sounds like the Marxists I knew in college, which is tedious. And then the big name white guys who just died up there.

      I am so ashamed of our leadership in the executive branch just now. Just ashamed.

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  2. We did not watch the debates. There was a time when we looked forward to these debates, but I couldn’t imagine how anything other than soundbites would rule. That said: I’ve wanted to like Biden because at least he’s not Trump and maybe (just maybe) some repentant Trump voters would vote for Biden if for no other Democrat. But, as you say, he has baggage that goes way back and he does not appear interested in learning, in understanding why his mishandling of Thomas’s confirmation was so hurtful to women in particular and to anyone who believed Hill’s testimony. There’s a sense that he wants to bring back the “good old days,” not realizing or ignoring the fact that those days weren’t very good for people of color and people in poverty. We lean toward Warren and Harris, although I’d love to see either of them as US Attorney General. We’ve been impressed by Buttigieg, but I recently read of a book review of his autobiography and came away feeling that he’s not being forthcoming enough regarding his time with McKinsey & Company. It surprises me how in this age of social media anyone thinks they keep their past mistakes (whether innocent or evil) hidden.

    It seems right now we have a double standard that worries me about the 2020 elections: no one expects Trump to be anything but what he is — crass, narcissistic, misogynistic, foul-mouthed, incompetent, racist, and pathological liar. But anyone who runs against him will need to have no skeletons in their closet. While Trump is allowed to wallow at the lowest standard, other candidates will be held to the highest. I’m hoping for Democrats to eventually join forces; whoever wins the primary does not leave the others in the dust but includes them as a running mate, proposed AG, proposed Cabinet members. We do have some very intelligent, competent, and compassionate Democrats running for president.

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    • Thank you. Yes. There is an insane double standard. Trump could, as he has said himself, commit murder in broad daylight and no one would twitch. A democrat misspeaks and the sky falls. (I found people saying how they will not see the country destroyed by offering healthcare to undocumented people. I wonder how they can stand to see our nation destroyed in so many other ways that this is the one, unjustified fear they clamp onto. How is it all right to fail to safeguard the lives of anyone?)

      I was determined to watch the meet-and-greets and I came away with greater respect for some, wishing others would have gained points, and others would hush. It is the first indication of how they might handle the stress of position. No one was awful (though a couple of men came close) and Biden was especially muddled even without Harris. She was, in fact, quite respectful and her comment was one of the only times a candidate said “This is personal” when it genuinely was.

      None of the overviews I have read or watched was remotely what I witnessed.

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      • I haven’t been reading the “reviews” of the debates either … well, except for Stephen Colbert and we’ve watched only his take of the second debates. Not objective journalism but at least he makes us laugh … for the most part. Harris’s experience as a prosecutor serves her very well, but I’m sure Trump’s team will find “dirt” on her. She has a long record in California from her days as a prosecutor and state attorney general, and it’s a complicated record. I remember being a bit skeptical of her when she ran for the Senate, but I’ve been impressed with her since. I’d love to see her as U.S. Attorney General, something that would make Jeff Sessions apoplectic 😉

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      • I would love to see her take-down of Trump. She would not be so careful, not so gentle as she was with Biden. I was not alarmed that she took time over her words. She needed to say exactly what she meant and she was absolutely right to say it. imo (It was another man who told Biden he was past his time, too old, and should step aside—that was less kindly said.)

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