THE PUZZLING KAMALA HARRIS CHOICE

BUT REVEALING CHOICE:
1. Joe is just an empty suit.  He is being controlled by others.
2. Kamala’s only plus for Biden is that she might blunt the devastating  charge that the Dems are weak on law and order—an issue that is paramount in every voter’s mind right now in the face of the frightening violent riots and unrest in Democrat controlled cities.

The Biden campaign has made a choice for VP.  The Biden handlers chose the puzzling Ms Kamala Harris, (is it Kam-ala or Kam-A-la ?).    Kamala was  born in California, the child of immigrants from India and Jamaica, and named after a Hindu goddess.  At the age of. seven she and her family left the USA for Canada ( did they take up citizenship there?). where she was raised in relative  affluence and privilege by university professor parents  ( a cancer researcher  and economist) who sent her to an elite private high school.  Kamala  returned to the USA to enroll in Howard University in DC for her bachelor degree, then went on to Hastings Law in California for her law degree.  There she landed a low paying job as assistant prosecutor for Alameda County.

When a relationship blossomed between young prosecutor  Kamala and politically powerful  (30 years her senior) State Rep Willy Brown she hit pay dirt.  On Rep. Willy Brown’s arm at his many political parties and soirées  she was able to meet and network with the elites of California politics.. To support her financially, in a style that was more appropriate to her aspirations, her powerful man friend Rep Willy Brown appointed her to a no-show California commission for which she had little or no credentials  or preparation.  (This does remind one of Joe Biden’s son Hunter who infamously also profited in this very same way.  So Joe and Kamala do have something in common.) .  The commission. which met once a month for an hour,  paid a salary equivalent to that of a California State Senator.  After several years of high income and affluence she left that Commission.  Brown appointed her to another Commission for which she was even less prepared but which paid considerably more.  More good pay years for no work on tax payers dime.

From this position of financial stability and political connectedness she was able to run for her first elected state position.  Being a woman, and a woman of color and living in California was not a hindrance or a stumbling stumbling block for minorities as some on the left would claim...It is clear Harris made it all work for her personal benefit.

But back to Joe.  Why would Joe choose a Kamala?  I think the choice reveals two things about the Biden campaign.

One. Joe is not making any decisions.  Joe is a fragile old man, an empty suit with a long denied hunger to be President.  He gets his orders from the Dem handlers.  As long as his “handlers” promise him —if elected—that Joe will sit  behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office for a while, he will do anything they say.  A real leader—a Reagan, a Clinton, or a Trump would not want an aggressive, pushy VP upstaging him (or her) as “co-President” which is exactly what Biden’s team  are setting up for.

“Dr” Jill Biden— not affected by dementia like Joe—complained about the Harris choice, rightly so,  but she—like Joe  have no power to make decisions.

Two. The Biden camp chose Harris because they fear the backlash from the lawlessness and riots in Democrat cities.  Think of it!  Kamal brings no real advantages.  She comes from a state the Dems will win easily.  She  is not popular with the left progressive wing.  She is not personable or charming or likable   She lost miserably in the primaries. She is not African American.  That alone would weaken the draw that Biden needs in the black community to win.  And finally, she comes with a long record of positions that do not align with the progressive wing of the party and will encourage defections.

But she has been a “tough on crime” prosecutor.  So her only asset to the Biden Camp is that she can somewhat blunt the thrust of the the Trump campaign that the Democrats are weak on crime, policing, and safety.  (The widely published video report of black rioters marching through the streets of DCs toney Georgetown area in the early hours of the morning Is a most recent example.  The rioters stomped  on BLM lawn sings and blew horns and screamed slogans  to awaken residents so as to register their complaints .  This image went viral and frightened a large segment of the voting community even outside of DC.  What can these residents think?  We are not safe—even in Georgetown, and even with a BLM sign on our lawn.) 

Will the Kamala choice work?  I think not. The Democrats started these riots and nudged them along assuming  that the Black Lives Matter Issue would motivate the black vote and push them across the finish line as winners . But the riots have now become a frightful, repugnant deficit—they can not control.   The violence has registered  in the minds of many independents and democrat-fence sitters (and even the black community).  The Democrats appear to those outside of the DC  bubble. as the party of  chaos.  They are Now identified as the  party that favors defunding a strong police force, the party that encourages violence, a party working against law and order and peaceful streets and cities where citizens can conduct business and live safely.   Who in this nation favors those issues?

The Dems  blew it.  The awful riots will take them down.  Their hope that a Kamala -might make them look more “moderate“ on the law and order issue Is a long shot. .