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Post by oldbastard on Jul 17, 2024 13:35:45 GMT -5
A respected former marine who grew up poorer than the kids in the “project” pool biden used to life guard at. Marine veteran OSU grad Yale Law grad marries a woman of color And smart as a whip Yeah what a pos Well, she's not a redbone but still pretty tan.
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Goosebumps
Jul 17, 2024 14:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jul 17, 2024 14:01:38 GMT -5
He’s probably not the best choice but he is a good and intelligent person.
He is definitely more articulate than Kamala
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Post by JS84 on Jul 17, 2024 14:05:37 GMT -5
My husky is more articulate then Kamala. A VP debate is a must.
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Post by cyclist on Jul 17, 2024 14:12:49 GMT -5
Basically, the folks that dis Kamala don't really know anything about her, or else they would actually talk about their issues.
Harris fits the mold of the modern VP and has been active on a number of fronts in policymaking and advocacy, though the president has assigned her some particularly thorny and hot-button issues. She tackled the immigration challenge convincingly by working on addressing long-term problems in Mexico and Guatemala through a “root causes” approach, focusing on improving economic and social conditions in Central America to make it more attractive to stay in one’s home country rather than emigrating. Unfortunately for Harris, the recent influx of migrants has come more from Caribbean-facing states, including Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela. One might fault Harris for not being able to predict immigration patterns, but she was able to find funding for her initial plan before it was scuttled. This shows a willingness to propose concrete policy solutions, a vanishingly rare trait in politics these days.
Make NATO European Again Uncertainty over America’s role in NATO after the looming U.S. election is the wake-up call Europe needs to take more responsibility for its defense. Britain and France must lead Europe on that path.
Gesine Weber and Alexandra de Hoop SchefferJuly 12, 2024 USA, European, British, and French flags in blue sky
She has also proved herself a capable representative of the United States overseas. At the Munich Security Conference in February, she reassured European allies of U.S. support for Ukraine, even as Congress was in a pitched battle over the aid package.
She has also been active on the domestic policy front as well. Harris did a lot of work on voting rights reform, only to see it fall apart when key members of her own party defected to a watered-down bill. It is hard to fault her for this kind of party breakdown; after all, as VP, she isn’t the head of the party.
Harris has also been vocal about abortion, driving home that it was Trump, through his Supreme Court appointees, who has rolled back women’s reproductive rights. The Democratic Party has leaned into the abortion issue, which became a rallying cry for voters in Virginia and Ohio in 2023.
Harris’ kryptonite seems to be her polling so far. She has been criticized as an ineffective campaigner who had trouble with messaging and difficulty with her staff. For the last couple of years, she has consistently had negative approval ratings, with nearly 50% disapproval in polls aggregated as of July 10.
But here’s the thing: Kamala may have fumbled her campaign in 2019, but she has led other very successful campaigns for district attorney, attorney general and U.S. Senate. Recent polling shows Harris beating Trump by one point in a general election if she were to replace Biden on the ticket.
There is a lot to recommend Harris if people would pay attention to what she does, not how she laughs or if she gaffes. She’s run successful political campaigns, tackled tough issues and supported tentpole Democratic party positions.
Skeptics keep asking if she is ready for a prime-time presidential campaign. A better question might be: Is Biden ready to give her the chance?
David Richards is an associate professor and chair of the Political Science program and International Relations & Security Studies program at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia.
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Post by resinhead on Jul 17, 2024 14:31:48 GMT -5
lol
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Post by conchydong on Jul 17, 2024 14:44:28 GMT -5
Pete, you have to be trolling because even a hard core liberal like you can’t be serious that Harris is a good VP. Even the simplest tasks she was assigned with she has failed miserably.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jul 17, 2024 14:47:44 GMT -5
That has to be a joke. Nobody can be serious saying that about Kamala. She is a box of rocks.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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Post by cyclist on Jul 17, 2024 14:57:59 GMT -5
The magaa traitors are toeing the line about Kamala, but they actually are going to frantically google to find out exactly why they should think she is bad...parroting dumass magaa bloggers and idiot trump...
Abortion rights
Abortion has become a central issue for Democrats following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn federal abortion rights. Harris spent much of the 2022 midterms appealing to voters with promises to prioritize and protect reproductive rights. Since Roe fell, she has "been subtly making herself the voice with a megaphone no one can ignore," said Philip Elliott at Time, adding that Harris has met with lawmakers from at least 18 states to discuss the issue. As Biden announced his 2024 candidacy, Harris gave a fiery speech at a reproductive freedom rally at her alma mater, Howard University. She blasted "extremist so-called leaders" for passing restrictive abortion bans.
She needs a serious reputation boost, "which explains why Harris has made abortion rights a central piece of her political identity," Elliott continued. After all, outrage over Roe v. Wade "powered Democratic candidates to unexpectedly strong showings in the midterm elections," and many believe Harris "played no small role in that accomplishment," Elliott said.
This year, Harris continued to put abortion at the forefront of her work. In March 2024, she toured a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota that provides abortion services. The White House said it was the first time in U.S. history that a president or vice president has visited a clinic that provides abortion services. The tour was the sixth stop on her "Fight for Reproductive Freedoms" tour, which she started in January to "push for more abortion access in the wake of the overruling of Roe v. Wade," said NBC News. Immigration and the southern border
Biden tapped Harris in the early months of their term to spearhead efforts to address the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. It took her months to make her first and only visit to the area, and the delay elicited backlash from lawmakers on both sides. Her trip to Guatemala and Mexico was ultimately overshadowed by an interview with Lester Holt of NBC News where she "awkwardly downplayed the urgency" of the visit, The Washington Post said. Since then, Harris has borne the brunt of the criticism from Republicans as the border crisis worsens; Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sent multiple buses of asylum seekers from the border to the VP's home in protest.
After withstanding the intense backlash of her perceived inaction, Harris is still attempting to address the root causes of the immigration problem. Her Central America Forward initiative has "yielded more than $4.2 billion in private sector commitments" to support creating local jobs and other measures to slow the flow of mass migration, CNN said last year. Some experts have lauded Harris' ability to secure the investments "as her most visible action in the region to date but have cautioned about the durability of those investments over the long term," CNN said.
Harris still has an uphill battle ahead of her to reverse public opinion about her work, or lack thereof, on the border. In January 2023, the Border Patrol union lambasted her lack of progress. "If you were given a job two years ago with the explicit goal of reducing illegal immigration, and then you sit around and do nothing while illegal immigration explodes to levels never seen before, you should be fired and replaced," the union said on X. Voting rights
Harris was also at the forefront of the administration's pursuit to codify voting rights protections. She pushed for Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, which would have extended the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and required federal approval for some local election law changes. The VP "dove into" the "chance to make her mark on a hugely important issue," Eugene Daniels said in Politico. To further that goal, Harris "helped craft political coalitions with civil rights leaders, built outside pressure on Congress, and engaged privately with lawmakers." Ultimately, her work "hit a brick wall" when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and now-independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) rejected proposed changes to Senate procedures to stop a Republican filibuster.
Harris' work leading up to the stalled legislation became "a microcosm of her stint as vice president: one defined by sharp moments, mishaps, public drama, private work and a touch of bad political luck," Daniels said.
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Post by resinhead on Jul 17, 2024 15:19:07 GMT -5
more loling
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Post by One Man Gang on Jul 17, 2024 15:28:27 GMT -5
Pete, I hate to say this but you've obviously lost the last of your marbles.
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Post by resinhead on Jul 17, 2024 15:28:52 GMT -5
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Post by JS84 on Jul 17, 2024 15:28:55 GMT -5
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Goosebumps
Jul 17, 2024 15:34:11 GMT -5
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jul 17, 2024 15:34:11 GMT -5
What an idiot
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Post by Tarponator on Jul 17, 2024 15:36:21 GMT -5
Do you think that "idiot" knows to put a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence?
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Post by JS84 on Jul 17, 2024 15:43:08 GMT -5
Oh the irony
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