How has Kamala Harris suddenly become an inarticulate air head? She never was a Winston Churchill or anyone, but do you remember her being this vapid when climbing the political ladder in California?
She’s become a legit international joke.
First, let’s stipulate that Joe Biden is the most snake-bit president in two centuries. In 14 months he faced a worldwide pandemic, runaway inflation, a botched Afghanistan withdrawal and now the potential start of World War III in Ukraine.
Those woes have put his No. 2 into the spotlight of late and, well, she’s looked totally unprepared for the moment.
Kamala’s inappropriate giggling isn’t the main problem. (It’s not good, but it’s not the problem.) It’s her word salad babbling that has startled a nation into wondering how in gawd’s green earth she got this far in public life. The first time we caught a glimpse of her oddness came when she outright fibbed to Lester Holt during her visit to central America. He asked her why she had not been to the U.S./Mexican border.
“We’ve been to the border,” she lied. Holt called her on it and she came back with this:
“And I haven’t been to Europe!”
Yikes. I don’t remember her being that stupidly obtuse in her rise in California. Do you?
That was only the start.
She went to France to smooth over a diplomatic blunder by the Biden Administration and came up with this meaningless blather:
“We must together – work together – to see where we are. Where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be. But also see it as a moment to, yes. Together, address the challenges and to work on the opportunities that are presented by this moment.”
Then on the brink of nuclear war over the Ukraine she stood on NATO’s front line and said: “I am here, standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies, and what is at stake at this very moment, what is at stake this very moment are some of the guiding principles…”
What?
And, let’s not forget this Kamala jewel that’s now prominent on every social media platform in the world:
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.”
Again, I sincerely ask: Did Kamala have this kind of proclivity for brain farts before she hit the national stage, or is there something in the water at the White House?
A FAIR QUESTION
Readers of this newspaper ask the best questions. In a story on our website (MarinLocalNews.com) the Novato Police Department detailed how they investigated and arrested a man who robbed an elderly woman at gunpoint. Police reported that the man was out on bail, to which reader Jane asked:
“How is he out on bail??!! He’s an armed robber!!!”
I know the answer to that. The system has tipped so far toward victim rights that it can no longer administer justice in a timely manner without letting really bad dudes back on the street where they can terrorize society anew.
That’s it in a nutshell, isn’t it?
ONE MORE THING
– Taco Bell: The only place you can still get gas for $1.39.
– If you feel sick when paying for gas, you may have carownervirus.
– Los Angeles heard the good news that COVID infections are miniscule in the face of bad news about $6-per-gallon gas. Californians are genuinely bewildered right now. Just when the COVID regulations say you can go places again, gas prices say, like hell you can, Sunshine. (H/T Argus Hamilton.)
OK, that’ll do it for today. Apologies in advance to cat-people everywhere and, as a reminder, any opinions expressed here (about cats or Kamala), along with three dollars, will get you a medium coffee at any Starbucks in the nation. Enjoy.
Until next week, avoid soreheads, laugh a little and always question authority.
(Sherman Frederick is the publisher of Marin’s community newspapers — the Novato Advance, San Rafael News-Pointer, Mill Valley Herald, Ross Valley Reporter, Twin City Times and the Sausalito Marin Scope. He is co-founder of Battle Born Media, a news organization dedicated to the preservation of community newspapers. You can reach him by email at shermfrederick@gmail.com.)
I wonder if Kamala is afflicted by anxiety when she speaks as they far surpass Dan Quayle in duh factor. In the summer of 2019, What some call word salad seems more like verbal coleslaw with repetitive use of phrases (‘seriously’ three times in one sentence recently).
I had Kamala as the horse to be for the nomination in the summer of 2019 with Joe heading for the glue factory. Now, both seem to be auditioning for the Gong Show.