Kamala Harris dog walked everyone on that stage. She won last night’s debate and the one the night before. She’s a once-in-lifetime talent. I’ve honestly never seen anyone command a debate stage the way she did. Had I seen 1/10 of that presence from Warren on Wednesday night, I probably could’ve supported her in the primary. Still, where I am today is that nothing fundamentally changed about this backwoods, racist, hilariously misogynistic country. Nothing changed. Comments like the one quoted below are why I’m still with Biden.
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit! She mentioned race one fucking time in the context of the discussion as the only black person on the stage. How you can just ignore everything else she talked about and zero in on that one subject is just amazing. It’s a real talent.
Sen Kamala Harris proved she has skills! She has the ability of slicing up her opponents and they are unable to feel the pain! Girlfriend backs her opponents into a corner and they don’t realize their trapped.
Truly a skillful WOMAN! Trump is not on her level! No way no how!
Women were the cause of the 2018 Blue Wave. We women want a candidate who we are enthusiastic and positive about. Senators Warren and Harris are those candidates
Well, then, go over and blog at Huffpost where only your narrow viewpoint will be ALLOWED to be discussed, or DailyKOS for that matter.
Democrats have differing viewpoints (despite what you read here) and some of us want to introduce opposing, or at least, a variance on viewpoints to this discussion, but, that is not to be allowed by some who are only interesting in THEIR viewpoint on any subject, and that is why you lose elections.
The Big Tent concept must allow for alternate viewpoints, or you are no different than the Trump Parties demand for unquestioning obedience to the viewpoint of the masters.
My viewpoint is highly unpopular among the “Woke” crowd, who don’t want to hear any dissent of their “Group Think”, but I have been active in Democratic politics for 40 years so I think I have earned my say.
You don’t have to agree with me, but you do have to allow me to say it.
Overall, I thought Biden did pretty good. He wasn’t a standout, to me that was Harris and, to a degree Buttigieg.
In the end, I totally agreed with Josh on his impression of Biden:
He hit the broad outlines of policy objectives most Democrats support, without overly committing in this direction or that. He focused on the importance of beating Trump. Biden doesn’t need fireworks. He’s already ahead. He needs to not make mistakes, not seem old, seem on his toes. I think he basically did that. The confrontation with Harris is a case in point. It was a powerful moment for her. But I thought it was a decent moment for him too if you judge it by the part of the electorate he’s appealing to and the strategy of the race he’s running. Someone said he wasn’t the guy from his veep debates. But that was a different brief.
Perhaps I’m wrong. Perhaps the media chatter will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But I think the commentary is getting ahead of itself.
Her specific point last night was that school-integration was not a matter that could have been safely left in the hands of states and localities.
And she was right.
The ways in which busing succeeded and failed, and, as important, the reasons for its successes and failures, are all related matters – but not her main point.
The reality is that white parents moved to the suburbs or put their kids in private schools. These days we have the charter school movement where public money is being used to fund these private schools.
