Politics Biden Picks Kamala Harris As Running Mate

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crandc said:
I didn't know this until two days ago. When Hubert Humphrey ran for president in 1968, Lyndon Johnson suggested he pick Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye as his running mate. Humphrey thought the country wasn't ready to elect an Asian American vice president. Maybe we finally are

Bonus points to anyone who can name Humphrey's VP choice. For the life of me I can't remember.
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Muskie?
 
ABM said:
The implication here is how CNN had skewered (across the board) Carlson just the night before. Calling him a bigot, racist, massively disrespectful, or otherwise. Personally, I have no problem with the mispronunciations.....by Biden, or otherwise. This was all about timing.
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of course you don't. trump is your hero as he has done a wonderful job for your ONLY reason to vote for him. Almost 4 years and you still have your one issue unresolved. Maybe he's not listening to you or doesn't give a shit as he just promises things for votes. :bored:
 
crandc said:
I didn't know this until two days ago. When Hubert Humphrey ran for president in 1968, Lyndon Johnson suggested he pick Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye as his running mate. Humphrey thought the country wasn't ready to elect an Asian American vice president. Maybe we finally are

Bonus points to anyone who can name Humphrey's VP choice. For the life of me I can't remember.
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Ed Muskie
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Breaking news!

Harris is black, so she can't be president.

https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483
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I have no doubt that this significant challenge to Harris' constitutional eligibility to the second-highest office in the land will be dismissed out of hand as so much antiquated constitutional tripe. But the concerns about divided allegiance that led our nation's Founders to include the "natural-born citizen" requirement for the office of president and commander-in-chief remain important; indeed, with persistent threats from Russia, China and others to our sovereignty and electoral process, those concerns are perhaps even more important today.​

Kamala Harris might be a sleeper agent from Jamaica or India. If you guys elect Biden and Harris, and Jamaica walks in and takes control because Kamala opened the gates to them, just know that this all could have been avoided with a few simple questions.
 
Minstrel said:
Kamala Harris might be a sleeper agent from Jamaica or India. If you guys elect Biden and Harris, and Jamaica walks in and takes control because Kamala opened the gates to them, just know that this all could have been avoided with a few simple questions.
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True, but think how amazing our Olympics sprinting team would be.
 
Minstrel said:
I have no doubt that this significant challenge to Harris' constitutional eligibility to the second-highest office in the land will be dismissed out of hand as so much antiquated constitutional tripe. But the concerns about divided allegiance that led our nation's Founders to include the "natural-born citizen" requirement for the office of president and commander-in-chief remain important; indeed, with persistent threats from Russia, China and others to our sovereignty and electoral process, those concerns are perhaps even more important today.​

Kamala Harris might be a sleeper agent from Jamaica or India. If you guys elect Biden and Harris, and Jamaica walks in and takes control because Kamala opened the gates to them, just know that this all could have been avoided with a few simple questions.
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Heh.

Shoot, there very well may be some popcorn moments over this seemingly silly revelation. Nonetheless, some journalists are scurrying to dig, dig, dig as I type.

Film @ 11.
 
Humphrey/Muskie 1968, the answer popped into my head this morning.

One of Trump's sons said Senator Harris is a "whorendous" choice. The shit apple doesn't fall far from rotten tree.
 
don't sleep on the influence KH will have on the turnout and potential outcome on the swing state Florida. many Haitian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Dominican refugees there that will likely identify with her common caribbean heritage. even may make inroads with younger Cubans.
 
lawai'a said:
don't sleep on the influence KH will have on the turnout and potential outcome on the swing state Florida. many Haitian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Dominican refugees there that will likely identify with her common caribbean heritage. even may make inroads with younger Cubans.
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Especially since they, like her, weren't born here and neither were their parents which means she's banned from running for Emperor of Mars. Cept for Puerto Rico, but we don't want to admit that in public.
 
SlyPokerDoc said:
Especially since they, like her, weren't born here and neither were their parents which means she's banned from running for Emperor of Mars. Cept for Puerto Rico, but we don't want to admit that in public.
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What in the hell?
 
Birthed 2.0

Her parents could be extraterrestrial, she was born in the US and is eligible and why is this racist shit even a conversation?
 
crandc said:
I didn't know this until two days ago. When Hubert Humphrey ran for president in 1968, Lyndon Johnson suggested he pick Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye as his running mate. Humphrey thought the country wasn't ready to elect an Asian American vice president. Maybe we finally are

Bonus points to anyone who can name Humphrey's VP choice. For the life of me I can't remember.
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Muskie
 
julius said:
Boy, imagine having a president that mispronounces names on a regular basis. how embarrassing would that be?
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Wow, there's covfefe in that shrewd observation. Were you in Pleasure, California when you thought of that or were you in Toledo, Ohio?

I'm telling you, if Trump didn't have someone to dress him in the morning he wouldn't get his shoes on the correct feet. Now, which is it, left or right?
 
Lanny said:
Wow, there's covfefe in that shrewd observation. Were you in Pleasure, California when you thought of that or were you in Toledo, Ohio?

I'm telling you, if Trump didn't have someone to dress him in the morning he wouldn't get his shoes on the correct feet. Now, which is it, left or right?
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Whats the oranges of your comment?
 
julius said:
Whats the oranges of your comment?
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LOL
I only laugh because this is not the sort of derangement that is trashing this country. But they are examples of how deranged this man is.
We either dump Trump or I head for Canada along with Millions of other sane people. I hate seeing trash on the roadside and I hate seeing our country get trashed.
 
Just a friendly reminder that trumps sons school is closed and he is voting by mail but he wants our kids in school and Americans to stand in line with hundreds of people risking infection to vote.
 
calvin natt said:
Just a friendly reminder that trumps sons school is closed and he is voting by mail but he wants our kids in school and Americans to stand in line with hundreds of people risking infection to vote.
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Well, remember it's different. He's voting absentee, and um, he's rich.


phew, feel much better now!
 
Biden’s Pledge To Choose A Woman For VP Was Popular — And So Is Harris

Before Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, criticism of his VP search was heating up. For some, the announcement back in March that he would pick a woman started to ring hollow the longer the search dragged on. For others, it felt like an off-key consolation prize, especially after Biden had defeated a number of high-profile women for the Democratic nomination. And, of course, an added complication was that while he was conducting his vice presidential search, protests against police brutality rippled across the country, leading some to demand that Biden pick not just a woman, but a Black woman.

Yet these criticisms don’t seem to carry much weight with the public. Polls over the past few months show that Americans, especially Democrats, overwhelmingly support Biden’s decision to choose a woman as his running mate.

For instance, after Biden initially made the announcement during a Democratic primary debate, a late-March Fox News poll found that 63 percent of voters approved of it, including 86 percent of Democrats. Fast forward to late July, and these numbers haven’t really changed. A Yahoo News/YouGov survey found that 62 percent of voters — including 90 percent of Democrats — thought Biden had made the right decision by pledging to choose a woman.

Support for Biden picking a Black woman was pretty high among Democrats, too, when they were asked whether they thought this was important. A USA Today/Suffolk University survey from late June found that 72 percent of Democrats thought it was important to pick a woman of color. And a Yahoo News/YouGov poll from late July found that 60 percent of Democrats felt it was important to pick a Black woman. A New York Times/Siena College survey from late June found much lower levels of support (just 25 percent of Democrats said Biden should choose a Black running mate), but that may have more to do on how the question was phrased — respondents weren’t asked if this was important. Instead, they were asked if Biden should choose a white person, choose a Black person, or not factor race into the decision.

One other thing that’s clear from the polls? Harris was the leading contender. A late-July SurveyUSA/FairVote poll of Democrats and independents found that Harris had the strongest favorability rating among potential VP picks, for instance. And using ranked-choice voting, the poll also found Harris was the preferred option, beating Sen. Elizabeth Warren 55 percent to 45 percent after second- and third-choice votes were allocated. (Harris also led 26 percent to 22 percent over Warren in first-choice votes.)

Other favorability polling echoes the SurveyUSA/FairVote findings. Both an early-August survey from The Economist/YouGov and a late-July Politico/Morning Consult poll found Harris had better marks among Democrats than any other VP contender save Warren, although they ran about even in the YouGov survey. Each poll also found Harris with a slightly better net favorability rating (favorable percentage minus unfavorable percentage) than Warren among all respondents.

Two early polls suggest that the public has had a reasonably positive reaction to Harris’s selection, too. A snap poll by YouGov after the pick found that 51 percent of voters approved of the choice while 36 percent disapproved. And 47 percent told ABC News/Ipsos that Harris was an excellent or good choice — including 83 percent of Democrats. Only 29 percent said the choice was not so good or poor.

Bottom line: Biden’s decision to pick a woman as his VP has remained widely popular, and in Harris, he’s found a solid No. 2. As a former presidential contender, she’s already been through public scrutiny of her record and background, and, as a U.S. senator, she has high-level political experience. She’s also a relatively popular choice according to the polls, so her history-making nomination should please many Democrats.​
 
This sums up my feelings on the subject fairly well. :devilwink:

 
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