Did we learn anything from Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention? It seems we learned that she intends to run on her “story,” which she supplemented with a collection of Washington clichés aimed at promoting bigger government, sprinkled with hints of military involvement if necessary.
She hopes this uninspired blend will secure her four more years in the White House. Essentially, the group currently managing the country with President Joe Biden as a weakened figurehead is preparing to replace him with a slightly younger but equally inauthentic candidate.
As for Harris’s story, it’s far from inspiring. We learned, surprisingly, that she had a mother and a sister, grew up in a broken home with an absent father, and lacked close family ties. Instead, she referred to her neighbors as her uncles and aunts. In essence, her life reflects the themes of Hillary Clinton’s book “It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.” How quintessentially Democrat.
And if coming from a dysfunctional family qualifies someone to be president, could someone please point out the lone American who isn’t entitled to carry the nuclear football to the brink of Armageddon?
Harris repeatedly emphasized that, rather than being a black person from the ghetto, she grew up middle class. And because she’s middle class, she’s not wealthy like the “evil” Donald Trump. If you believe that the party of Wall Street is the party of the middle class, well, that’s your choice.
Harris now wants the country to swap out the boring middle-class Joe from Scranton for the equally boring middle-class Ms. Harris from… well, she mentioned several states she considers politically significant. She conveniently omitted that she lived in Quebec during her formative high school years, from ages 12 to 17. Apparently, the French Canadian vote isn’t worth courting. And being black from Quebec doesn’t have the same DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) appeal. Montreal’s most famous citizen, Brother Andre Bessette, who once worked in a Connecticut shoe factory, didn’t make it onto Harris’s list of non-relative relatives.
We also learned that her mother, who taught at McGill University, like Joe Biden’s father, is a go-to source for speechwriters. Both Biden’s and Harris’s parents seem to have been fountains of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations—endless sources of wisdom. The deceased parents of politicians are always a rich source of bon mots, as they say in Quebec. Who needs speechwriters when you can simply transcribe words from seances for the next four years?
We also learned that she provided crucial advice to the president just days before the Ukraine war broke out. With half a million dead, how well has that advice worked out? Harris promised more of this “great diplomacy” as the U.S. continues to act as the world’s policeman. Yes, the earth will shake, and tyrants will tremble, hiding under their bedcovers when Harris strides the global stage in her seven-league boots.
She claimed she was tough on crime because, well, prosecutors prosecute criminals. Given the news these days, you might not know that. She said she became a prosecutor because someone she knew as a child was abused by their father. Fair enough. However, if you look up other accounts, she offers different reasons for entering the field, depending on the audience. But of course, prosecutors would never embellish to make their case.
And finally, we learned that she’s passionate about abortion. Harris supports abortion with the same fervor that the head of the National Rifle Association supports guns. She’s so committed that she arranged for a mobile abortion truck to be brought to the convention, spreading the service to her followers.
Would it surprise anyone if we learned that Harris herself had an abortion or multiple abortions, given her intense focus on making the procedure accessible to her friends and supporters? It would be interesting if an interviewer asked her about her personal experience with abortion. Regardless, the persistent turnover of her staff, due to her cold and detached demeanor, suggests something deeply wrong beneath the surface.
To top it all off, rumors swirled that everyone from Beyoncé to Taylor Swift, and even George Bush or Mitt Romney, would make a surprise appearance. But none of it was true. Kamala Harris has built a career on overpromising and under-delivering.
Perhaps she’s saving the surprise national vasectomy for if she gets elected. Ouch.
