One Man's Nasty is Another Man's Sign of Hope

[mrdreamjeans]

 The presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden finally announced who is going to join him on the ticket as his running mate: Kamala Harris. I admit Senator Harris wasn't my first choice for Vice President. My Biden/Buttigieg dream stickers will be relegated to the trash heap of history, forever regarded as a moment of historical whimsy insanity.

 

I am glad the decision has been made. I can only think President Cov-Idiot's childish labeling of the junior senator from California as "nasty" will backfire (and yes, I am aware my labeling is just as childish, but I refuse to use his name).

Today, I am feeling hopeful for the future. It's an odd, unexpected feeling after enduring 5 months of bungled pandemic response. So, for those who are curious, just who is Kamala Harris? First and foremost, she's a formidable woman.

 

• Kamala Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, California.
• Her father, Donald Harris, is Jamaican and is a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics. He claims to be a descendant of a slave owner named Hamilton Brown who was a Northern Irish sugarcane planter.
• Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is Indian and is a breast cancer scientist with a doctorate degree in endocrinology from UC Berkeley.
• Kamala Harris identifies herself as American.
• She graduated from Howard University and then UC Hastings College of the Law.
• In 2003, after working in several DA offices, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco.
• In 2010 she was elected Attorney General of California and then re-elected four years later.
• In 2016, she was elected to the US Senate representing California along with Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Dim Donald calls Senator Harris "nasty". For me, she's a source of hope and his worst nightmare..

 

Comments

[cjsmith]

She’s not my favored choice either (and some folk on the more progressive end do not like her record as prosecutor, her record on trans inmates, or her comments on young people so that erodes the ticket a bit from that side) but all that said, coulda been so much worse, and I am just petty enough to reeeeally want to watch her make Pence squirm during the VP debate.

[mrdreamjeans]

Petty People Unite! :)

Mike Pence is going to be clutching his pearls when taking her on!