For VP Kamala Harris, the presidency looks more and more like a long shot

Source: The Dallas Morning News
Published: Jun 17, 2021
Author: Carl P. Leubsdorf
Post Date: 2021-06-17 20:29:25 by tankumo
Views: 3233

The vice presidency has come a long way since John Adams called it “the most insignificant office” ever conceived, and John Nance Garner referred to it as “not worth a bucket of warm piss.”

For more than four decades, most vice presidents have received significant presidential assignments. As Vice President, Joe Biden managed implementation of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus program, and Vice President Mike Pence ran President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 task force.

For most, however, efforts to elevate their standing politically have brought mixed success. More lost later presidential races than won them, and the elder George Bush is still the only sitting vice president elected president in the last 184 years.

The recent difficulties of Vice President Kamala Harris illustrate how hard it will be for the first Black woman to hold the office to establish a record that could help her one day be elected president.

For one thing, President Joe Biden has asked her to manage two areas, immigration and voting rights, where the underlying problems are so substantively complex and politically intractable that success may prove elusive.

For another, in carrying out her mandate to tackle the issues at the root of the immigration problem, the vice president has shown some ........

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#1: Hank Rearden    To: tankumo (#0)

Humpin' Harris isn't really bLACK.

Hank Rearden posted on 2021-06-19 15:43:36   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Mudboy Slim    To: Hank Rearden (#1)

Only way Kamala becomes President is over Biden's dead body...MUD

Mudboy Slim posted on 2021-06-19 19:38:34   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Mudboy Slim    To: tankumo (#0)

Actually, I reckon SleepyJoe could simply resign the Presidency and gift wrap the oval office for Harris...but no way she EVER gets elected...MUD

Mudboy Slim posted on 2021-06-19 19:41:50   Reply   Private Reply

#4: tankumo    To: Mudboy Slim (#3)

Some say she will be elected because of her skin color.

tankumo posted on 2021-06-20 14:12:30   Reply   Private Reply

#5: tankumo    To: Hank Rearden (#1)

The left wants minority, women, gay, transgender or transexual, anything but white man, they are racist.

tankumo posted on 2021-06-20 14:13:41   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Hank Rearden    To: tankumo (#4)

Some say she will be elected because of her skin color.

That, and blowjobs, are the only reason Humpin' Harris has ever gotten any "job". It's certainly not talent, political skill or personality.

Hank Rearden posted on 2021-06-20 16:24:07   Reply   Private Reply

#7: Mudboy Slim    To: tankumo (#4)

Even folks "who look like her" take a disliking to Kamala the more they see of her. People of color recognize the arrogant incompetence that this ditz exudes...MUD

Mudboy Slim posted on 2021-06-21 09:09:42   Reply   Private Reply