Barack Obama, now near Christ-like within the Democrat Party, was little more than “hope and change” when he announced his 2008 presidential candidacy. The dutiful liberal media immediately glommed onto the young senator without substance and eagerly began to elevate him to deity status.
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As Yogi Berra would say, it’s déjà vu all over again; they’re doing the same thing with Kamala Harris.
Where Obama was all about “hopey, changey stuff,” as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would later say, Kamala Harris is all about “joy.” A “joyful warrior,” as it were.
Any rational, freedom-loving, patriotic American who has paid a modicum of attention to the damage wrought on both America’s citizenry and this country’s standing in the world knows damn well that “joy” is the last word to describe the last three and a half years of the Biden-Harris administration.
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To make matters worse (for the Democrats), as of this article, it’s been something like 35 days since Harris has done a formal news conference — before she ascended, without a single delegate, to the presidential nomination of her party. So much for “democracy” in the Democrat Party, huh?
New York Post writer Michael Goodwin noted that the similarities between Obama in 2008 and Harris in 2024 are “striking.”
The parallels between then and now are striking.
Like Obama, the Democrats’ current nominee has been maddeningly elusive about what she would do as president. Yet she is nonetheless riding a wave of enthusiasm that could carry her to the White House.
As they did with Obama, big media outlets are helping to promote her candidacy rather than vetting her for voters.
Take recent top headlines in The New York Times: On Friday, beside a huge flattering photo of her, the newspaper declared: “Harris Making History While Putting Her Faith In the Art of the Possible.” On Saturday, the same space said: “Harris Faces Challenge: Turning Joy Into Votes.”
A Washington Post opinion piece on Harris’ husband carried this headline — “Doug Emhoff: modern-day sex symbol.”
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Sickening, isn’t it?
Harris is fond of declaring, “On day one, I’ll…”
Memo to Kamala: You have been in the office of the vice presidency for more than three and a half years. What have you done — specifically? I’ll wait. Got nothin’, Kamala? That’s what I thought.
As for the media putting lipstick on a pig — OK, let’s go in a different direction. As for trying to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse — oh, never mind, you get my point. Anyway, Goodwin blistered the media’s treatment of Princess Kamala, mightily, saying, “This isn’t journalism.”
This isn’t journalism. It’s boosterism, and it’s disgraceful.
For Donald Trump, the consequences are clear: his opponent is Hope and Change All Over Again. Or, as Palin might put it, he’s up against Hopey-Changey 2.0.
In fact, Harris has been even more vague than Obama was in 2008. He at least had to run in and win numerous primaries against Hillary Clinton and couldn’t hide from debates, interviews and press conferences.
Harris, on the other hand, struck political gold with the boss-led, backroom deal that handed her the nomination without requiring her to win a single delegate on her own.
One result is that she’s been able to get away with sweeping promises of all the good she will do on day one without revealing crucial details, including price tags.
The credibility problems with this approach are obvious, starting with the fact that she’s been vice president for three and one-half years in an unpopular administration.
A base-line question is what she would do differently than what she and President Biden did together. If she has better ideas, why wait? Why not persuade Biden to implement them now?
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Exactly, as I suggested earlier. The “On day one” shtick is getting just as tiresome as the whole “joyful warrior” nonsense, concocted by Kamala’s cheerleaders on CNN, MSNBC, The nauseating “The View,” and elsewhere.
The Bottom Line
The bottom line is this: There are only two possible explanations why Harris continues to refuse to reveal details of her planned policies or subject herself to a formal news conference.
Either she doesn’t have details to share — but, hey, give her a break: All of that “happy warrior” work is tiresome! — or she doesn’t want voters to know what those details are.
I’m going to go out on a safe limb and bet it’s the second reason.
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Meanwhile, Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party expect tens of millions of voters to show up at the polls and blindly support the “joyful warrior,” no questions asked. And guess what? They will do just that.