California Senator Kamala Harris has limited national experience and unlimited fakery. The U.S. senator from California has intelligence, grit, command, and ideas, all of which has enabled her to rise to a possible candidate. Her fraudulent attitude comes from consistent attempts to portray herself as a marginalized member of the African American community. Other than growing up in a deprived community, she grew up in a privileged household, with a father who was a Stanford University economics professor and a mother who was a breast-cancer scientist and daughter of an Indian diplomat. She misrepresented the desegregation-busing program, describing it as an effort to enable children from Black communities to receive better education when the program actually attempted to transform "separate but equal" to "together and equal." Although she did not completely grow up in the United States, during the primary debates, Harris frequently mentioned her life in an African community in the United States. After her mother's divorce, a 12-year-old Kamala Harris moved to Montreal, Canada, where her mother did research at Jewish General Hospital and taught at McGill University. She returned to the United States to attend college.
Kamala Harris had a moment of rising popularity during the debates, and, then due to her duplicity, sank quickly. Quoting the New York Times, Nov 29, 2019, "She (Kamala Harris) has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions." The same will occur in the presidential campaign. Nominating Senator Harris is a sure vote loser.
Ambassador Susan Rice comes off as an expanded Hillary Clinton look-alike -- lots of commotion, holding exalted positions, abrasive attitude, and no real accomplishments. Unlike Senator Clinton, she has not held elected office, has no legislative experience, and no firm leadership experience. From the appointed positions she has held, she seemed confused in what she should be doing, provided opinions that generated conflict, and alienated those close to her. One example of her Trump like behavior:
Reuters, NOVEMBER 24, 2012, Backed by Obama, sharp-tongued Susan Rice battles critics, Louis Charbonneau, Susan Cornwell .
Diplomats on the 15-nation U.N. Security Council privately complain of Rice's aggressive negotiating tactics, describing her with terms like "undiplomatic" and "sometimes rather rude." They attributed some blunt language to Rice - "this is crap," "let's kill this" or "this is bullshit."
Ms. Rice makes a weak Biden look weaker; an electorate that refused Hillary will not be amenable to Susan.
Other mentioned African-American women are exceptional in their fields, but have little or no national experience, no name recognition, and carry unnecessary baggage.
Dems have not adequately exposed
Trump failure in containing SARS CoV-2.
Assembling a Corona Virus Task Force that has been unable to contain
SARS CoV-2, demonstrates the ineptness of Trump and his administration; where
most needed, they have harmed the nation. The lack of a well-coordinated
national effort has resulted in the United States having 25 percent of the
world's cases and 25 percent of the world's deaths. Political
expediency -- placing economy and profits ahead of life and survival have
guided Trump's actions. The Dems have not adequately exposed Trump's
malfeasance, or motivated the electorate to protest Trump's damaging
behavior.
An example.
South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn's endorsement of Joe Biden
reinvigorated the Democratic nominee's campaign. Representative Clyburn could
have taken an opportunity to invigorate Biden's election. As chair of the
House's Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, minority whip, and third
ranking Democrat in Congress, Rep. Clyburn had an opportunity to dump
Trump. After Clyburn mentioned that the U.S. has had the highest number of
COVID-19 cases, week after week, Trump twittered the Committee to inform the
chair that this was only because the U.S. had the highest number of testing.
Asked to respond to Trump's tweet, Rep. Clyburn, chair of the House's Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, showed inadequate understanding of the epidemic and gave Trump a free pass. Clyburn said, "Testing is not the only thing, wearing masks and practicing safe distance are also important," a trivial and incompetent remark. He should have emphatically countered Trump's ignorance by emphasizing that
1. The important figure is number of positives divided by the number of tests. Whereas, almost all nations have seen this ratio decline to nil three months after peaking, the U.S. had a decline and then an abrupt increase for several weeks, bringing the contagion back to where it was six weeks previously.
2. The number of deaths and its trend are the most important statistics. Most nations have had declines to single digits three months after peak; U.S. deaths are at the same level as three months previously.
3. Contrary to Trump's statement that the U.S. has the lowest death rate per capita, the U.S. has a higher death rate than 210 other nations, and only five nations have a worse statistic.
4. One reason the U.S. has more testing is because it has more cases; many nations have few cases, and, for this reason, their testing has slowed.
South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn's mental lapse is a type of behavior that assists Trump.
Failures in demonstrations.
The demonstrations for African-American equality have struck a responsive chord
in the American system. Well-intentioned and well impacted, they failed to
recognize that if Trump were re-elected, their efforts would be worthless.
Walking a fine line between adequate expression and not giving Trump ammunition
to refute their efforts and presenting himself as savior of American security
was not a simple task. In this case, it was better to play it safe than be
sorry. Unfortunately, some of the demonstrations, even if their actions were
exaggerated served to give Trump the position he most needs -- protector
of citizen safety. Those who find nemeses behind every lamppost will gravitate
to Trump if they feel insecure. Some demonstrations contributed to that
feeling. Big mistake,
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