Democrat Joe Biden chooses U.S. Senator Kamala Harris for White House running mate

[cdemundo]

4 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

People don’t like Kamala for a multitude of very legitimate reasons, her being a woman is not one of them and hiding behind that argument is weak, but typical. 

Her being a woman is most certainly one of the reasons some don't like her.

[FritsSikkink]

31 minutes ago, Logosone said:

It's not that Kamala Harris was completely useless as a DA though, she tackled the important issue of teens insulting each other:

 

Kamala Harris created a special Hate Crimes Unit, focusing on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Early_life_and_education

Let's have a look at Trump's resume:

 

https://www.theweek.com/articles/783976/brief-history-trumps-smalltime-swindles

 

[Orton Rd]

I'm sure he would have preferred an African American but she will have to do, being half Indian and half Caribbean will still have appeal for the victim group. It may be true she is descended from one of Jamaica's biggest slave owners, so they will probably turn that into a positive as well, it's all about identity folks.

[Orton Rd]

5 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

Her being a woman is most certainly one of the reasons some don't like her.

Na, Love Candace Owens and she's a real woman of colour ????

[cdemundo]

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

A pity Michelle wasn't interested.

The problem Michelle has is that everyone knows she is just a puppet of "Big Kale".

[wwest5829]

5 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Shes Indian and Asian but whatever. 
 

Anywho, real fantastic pick right there. Arguably one of the most unlikeable and unprincipled of them all, but it was the obvious choice considering the state of lawlessness going on in the states.  

Father Jamaican?

[Jingthing]

Great pick! 

Great ticket! 

Biden is a winner! 

He's running a brilliant campaign. 

Yes mostly just letting 45 beat himself.

It's working. 

Kamala will prosecute yes "man" Mike in the VP debate. 

 

 

[lifeincnx]

6 hours ago, pegman said:

Good choice Joe.  I've been hoping for the last couple years that she would be the nominee. She has a better chance of being president after Jan/2021 than anyone other than Biden as things sit now. 1st black or Asian woman to be on a ticket. Her manner and smarts will really help Joe  with suburban women voters. A very important sector  of the electorate. She spent time living and going to school in Canada so she has that going for her also. Wish I could vote for her but glad I can't. 

I'll try to keep you and those like you in mind as I cast my VOTE FOR BIDEN/HARRIS on November 3. Then, and hopefully, we'll restore the soul of the nation. Next up, I want President Biden to appoint Sally Yates as Attorney General. That should send the orange mop afire.

Edited August 12, 2020 by lifeincnx
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[david555]

2 hours ago, Opl said:

yes, because she's seen dark enough by Trump voters

Agood reply ...but makes the outcome on my quote 50/50% ????????

 

Nothing against her ....like expected she will become the first woman president of USA.....

As Biden does not look very fit in physical way...

 

[lifeincnx]

5 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

why would living in and going to school in Canada be considered and asset?

 

If you really have to ask I take it you've never been there.

[Pedrogaz]

Who can tell what lies, filth and smears this poor lady will have to endure from the lying machine that is Trump and his coterie.

 

I must admit I was neutral about her because I didn't know much about her. In the primaries I liked Tulsi Gabbard, she would have been an advocate to avoid war. Best pick would have been Michelle Obama but presumably she didn't want it.

My last pick would have been Diane Abbot from Britain's Labour Party.....just joking. 

[cdemundo]

1 hour ago, simple1 said:

If I recall correctly you once mentioned you are a female. I guess culturally we are divided as it comes across to me as a very insulting generalised connotation i.e. females making false charges against men.

I think it was a reference to her being a prosecutor in the good old USA.  So probably gender neutral.

[NanLaew]

40 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

As an outsider, after watching all the debates, I did find it difficult to understand why the Dem Voters picked Joe.

coz crazy uncle Bernie was just to damn.... crazy!

[cdemundo]

54 minutes ago, Logosone said:

It's not that Kamala Harris was completely useless as a DA though, she tackled the important issue of teens insulting each other:

 

Kamala Harris created a special Hate Crimes Unit, focusing on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Early_life_and_education

I believe that LGBT teens as a group have one of the highest suicide rates in the US.  Often, hateful messages from their peers contribute to this.  So I think that was a worthwhile initiative on her part.  

[riclag]

3 hours ago, Opl said:

yes, because she's seen dark enough by Trump voters

 

3 hours ago, Opl said:

But...is she dark enough for BLM...? To win their support..?

She and that group are align by the reparations idea , The Sad part about that is taxpayers will be forced to pay for it!

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703299534/sen-kamala-harris-on-reparations

[MyTHaiMyKe]

With the dope smoking jamacian kamala, it now guarantees a victory for President Trump in November! Even kamala's dad disowns her!

[stevenl]

11 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Yes, very impressive and so positive. We definitely need more Hate Crimes Units at school monitoring if teens insult each other. Don't know how we did without them in the past really. It creates a much more positive school environment to have Hate Crime Monitors policing the corridors. I'm just sorry I can't experience that myself.

 

Thank God Kamala Harris came along and dealt with this important issue.

And again you're showing you have nothing against her. Trying to make something out of nothing (her faded university memories), trying and failing to put her efforts to get more black women in politics in a negative daylight and now complaining about her efforts for less hate crimes. You're making her look better by the minute.

[NanLaew]

20 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

26 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

Her being a woman is most certainly one of the reasons some don't like her.

Na, Love Candace Owens and she's a real woman of colour 

Sheesh... and here was me thinkin' that ord'n'ry white folks wusn't aware of the traditional 'y'all aint real black' paradox that keeps the black community socially divided.

 

That wuz after me thinkin' 'bout wut a black Michelle Malkin would look and sound like.

[Opl]

3 minutes ago, david555 said:

Agood reply ...but makes the outcome on my quote 50/50% ????????

 

Nothing against her ....like expected she will become the first woman president of USA.....

As Biden does not look very fit in physical way...

 

She wrote about her mother: "“She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women,” Kamala wrote."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/10/kamala-harris-president-parents-shyamala-gopalan-donald-harris-berkeley/

In a way, she wasn't born "black", she became "black", this is something you often hear from persons with mixed roots

And... A close reading of Harris’s record suggests that she likely has shifted her views on police misconduct for political reasons... By 2016, she supported what the Times described as “a modest expansion of her office’s powers to investigate police misconduct.” But her demands for police oversight were nowhere near as sweeping as they have become this year..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/give-kamala-harris-break/615127/

 

[Orton Rd]

Is that passa hillbilly?

[simple1]

5 minutes ago, Logosone said:

you'll see her lying about smoking weed whilst listening to Snoop Dog and Tupac while at university. Neither Snoop nor Tupac had any albums out until after she graduated.

Don't know why you get away with it, but stop posting misinformation. The video clarifies what Harris actually said in context it is not what you infer. Additionally, as already posted within this topic...

 

With the help of the typical rush to judgment on social media, and some masterful framing by Fox & Friends, a fake controversy was born. The claim was that Harris lied about her weed experience to curry favor with the black community.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/kamala-harris-didnt-lie-about-listening-snoop-dogg/582982/

[Phoenix Rising]

18 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Yes, very impressive and so positive. We definitely need more Hate Crimes Units at school monitoring if teens insult each other. Don't know how we did without them in the past really. It creates a much more positive school environment to have Hate Crime Monitors policing the corridors. I'm just sorry I can't experience that myself.

 

Thank God Kamala Harris came along and dealt with this important issue.

Wow, you really got the dirt on her, haven't you. After this astounding revelation I just can't see how she could be the VP pick any longer!

[NanLaew]

6 minutes ago, Opl said:

By 2016, she supported what the Times described as “a modest expansion of her office’s powers to investigate police misconduct.” But her demands for police oversight were nowhere near as sweeping as they have become this year..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/give-kamala-harris-break/615127/

There weren't any BLM 'riots' allegedly caused by Antifa being touted as the bogeyman back in 2016 either.

[blazes]

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

Sigh. Quod Erat Demonstratum?

If you're going to quote Latin to show how smart you are,  please get it correct.

[Sujo]

Oh the shock, lock her up.  Im sure she jaywalked once.

[Phoenix Rising]

5 minutes ago, Logosone said:

So Kamala Harris, a liar. A liar who will do anything to get votes from blacks, transexuals, lesbians, gays, anyone.

 

A liar who is called out as a liar even by her own father.

While trump OTOH............

 

Congratulations, you just won the Award For Most Hypocritical Post Of 2020!

[Sujo]

6 minutes ago, Opl said:

And who cares?  

Exactly. Its such an insignificant non event.

 

They dont seem to mind trumps 20,000 lies but have a meltdown about a black woman.

 

With this posters history you can be sure it will be posted over and over.

Edited August 12, 2020 by Sujo

[simple1]

17 minutes ago, Logosone said:

You see, simple1, the problem is Kamala Harris was recorded when she lied about smoking weed whilst listening to Snoop Dog and Tupac (even though Snoop Dog and Tupac had not published albums until after she graduated).

Still regurgitating disinformation. Harris' replies in context have been provided which refute your opinion, including the video from WAPO. You are also misrepresenting what her father said, even though you provided a link; to quote:

 

Sen. Kamala Harris’ father accused her of disgracing her family by using a “fraudulent stereotype” to say that she had obviously smoked marijuana because she is part Jamaican, according to the news website Jamaica Global Online.

 

BTW I have visited Jamaica, everywhere you go is grass. I assume in her parent's social setting they didn't smoke, but most places absolutely.

Edited August 12, 2020 by simple1

[EVENKEEL]

4 minutes ago, Opl said:

And who cares?  

America cares, it shows her using racist stereotyping to gain acceptance with her black constituents. Surely the black voters can see through her lies. 

[rudi49jr]

6 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Arguably one of the most unlikeable and unprincipled of them all

As opposed to your sunny disposition and completely unbiased opinions, right?