Kamala has been grandstanding for some time, not just during the debates. She rushed to defend Smollett....anyone else remember that?.....before the facts were in.
Bottom line, Kamala has no experience and no platform other than chasing sound bites. No thank you.
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Harris makes one harsh remark to Biden, and we have her in the White House and Biden in a rocking chair. Really?
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Both of her zinger takedown moments seemed rehearsed. I was already regretting the two votes I gave her in the past, and she's only getting worse. Maybe Mnuchin will send her another check?
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"And the Bay is kind of known for its food." Since when is the S.F. Bay Area known as "the Bay"?
What next from the NY Times? "Cally Today?"
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@NorCal Reader - I've lived in the Bay for the last 22 years and have called it both. Even our beloved Golden State Warriors honor the San Francisco Bay Area as The Bay on their game jerseys. This is not a big deal.
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Will the New York Times please look into the claims
made by Senator Harris.
Where did she go to school while growing up.
What was the 'racial makeup' of those schools
and the quality of those schools.
Please tell us how long her commute was to those schools.
The reason bussing failed is that it made pawns out of
little children who just wanted to attend a decent public school
- preferably in their own neighborhood, not to forced to get
on a bus ride that lasted up to an hour or more each way in order
to satisfy some Federal Judge or Bureaucrats notions of
"balanced schools".
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@John Brown To further your point, busing also lead to a massive backlash against the civil rights movement and white flight from the public school system. The better solution would have been to increase the funding and resources at poorer schools so that every school gave a student a chance to receive a good education. The US school system would likely be less segregated today if that option had been followed.
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@John Brown - You make legitimate points but you delegitimize yourself by cutting and pasting someone else's work as your own. Double space in a paragraph is the first giveaway.
@Lorne
Why the Judges at any level thought
they should legislate from the Bench is
beyond me.
They made a mess of School Integration
and inflamed a generation.
Equal funding, Equality of teaching,
freedom to attend any school in the State
would have been an equitable and viable
solution.
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Harris really turned me off last night. She seemed to be bringing a very narrow viewpoint to her participation. Everything seemed to be either about her prosecutorial experience or about about her personal experiences. It's not about you, Harris -- it's about us.
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At no point in a term as president of the United States do debate skills influence your performance. So please folks, look at Harris's record before you jump on her bandwagon (or that of anyone else). Apparently she's already backtracking this morning on her support for eliminating private insurance companies (and that's not the first sudden policy reversal she's made during the campaign). She might make a superb Supreme Court justice but she lacks the policy chops to be president. For example, her plan about raising teacher salaries ignores the fact that the federal government has little, if any, role in funding K-12 education, especially re general teacher salaries. That's all done through the states and local governments. Many parents are obsessive about local control for schools. If the federal government is suddenly going to channel billions of dollars into those schools, that will come with red tape (and red tape is already choking school districts). Plus, do you give all teachers that money (even the ones in Beverly Hills School Districts making $100,000 a year) or just the ones making less than a given level (e.g., $40,000)? Poorly thought out plan that just makes for a good sound bite. Please look more closely at these policies proposals ...
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I will vote early and vote often for President Trump.
The debate convincingly proved that there is no other worthy candidate.
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Kamala's performance: Self-serving grandstanding without consideration of the whole picture i.e. beat Trump.
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While I do not believe Joe Biden is the right candidate, and I had been impressed with Kamala Harris early in the debate, her emotional attack on Biden struck me as rehearsed and inauthentic, and her self-referencing as out of place. A presidential candidate should not make it about her personally--she no longer looks presidential. She could easily have called out Biden without making herself the center of the story. For me, she was winning until then, and ended up in a tie with a few others.
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Why are candidates attacking Biden while Trump was accused of rape, RAPE.....again.....two days ago? Not a single word about Trumps 19th sexual assault allegation in last nights debate. Stay tuned as democrats teach you how to lose an election.
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Watched both nights of debates and though the line up was supposed to be random, it was pretty obvious that the only heavy hitter on night one was Warren.
As for the interchange between Harris and Biden over race, I thought Biden had a great response: "I was a public defender. I didn't become a prosecutor."
Translation: Biden was trying to keep people out of prison, Harris was trying to put them in.
This is a key point since African Americans, especially male, make up a disproportionate share of the prison population.
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I had been a big fan of Kamala Harris up until last night's debate. The goal for the Democratic Party is to get Trump out of office before he further destroys our country. Kamala is smart, but not electable - and for that fact, neither is anyone on that stage other than Biden. Anyone and anything that disparages Biden is hurting his election and improving Trump's chances for re-election. I thought Kamala was smarter than this, but I was wrong. I wanted Biden to pick her as his running mate, now I no longer want her on the ticket and I am sure Biden doesn't either.
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Why do you believe Biden to be the only one able to beat Trump given the top 7 democrats lead Trump in the polls? Of course Biden will have the early lead solely because of the Obama factor. I hope you reassess your strategy on picking someone because some may be more easily to beat Trump then Biden. That was the same logic used with Hillary Clinton ie "shes the one who can beat Trump" and look where that line of thinking got us. I believe the polls- that 7 dems will beat Trump and am going with the one who has the best ideas AND will beat Trump.
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