02-11-2019, 03:55 AM
(02-11-2019, 12:35 AM)Carsman Wrote: Around 7 or 8 months ago I mentioned Kamala Harris was one to watch for 2020, I still say that today! Time will tell.
I genuinely thought so too. I do mean that seriously. She is smart (regardless of whether one agrees with her), she is a woman (for the identity politic minded), she is black (a black woman for double minority standing), she is confidence, strong and not clownish. She is comparatively young. She also straddles the Progressive and Moderate Democrat branches neatly.
Out of what is on offer, she is a really strong candidate...or should be.
Unfortunately for her, she is not as popular as i thought she would or possibly should be. Though black, she is not African American, her Father is Jamaican and her mother is Indian. She is married to a white man, her time as Senator has done nothing to advance black issues and her track record with prosecuting black men, has been far from beneficial to the black community.
The black community don't seem to be embracing her.
There are a number of ex-employees and close associates that have been charged with various crimes (no, not process crimes) and there was also the fact that she was screwing a married Democratic kingmaker called Willie Brown who at 60 was 30 years her senior.
These two things to my mind are neither here nor there BUT the career elevating jobs he got her because he was screwing her was a bit more of an issue.
There was also some suggestion that her eligibility to run given the nationality of her parents and their status when she was born was problematic. That line i think is probably wishful thinking. As far as i understand, if you are born in US, you are eligible to run for President.
But all these issues and more will and do have weight.
I think she is the right kind of temperament to take on Trump 2020.