Much like one memorable student in my law class, Kamala Harris presents well, but is not intelligent, thoughtful, insightful, or wise.
If you have never attended a scholarly lecture by the late Prof. Irwin Corey, please begin by viewing this 82-second link. He died at 102. He has been reincarnated in Kamala Harris.
I taught law school for twenty years. During those two decades, I had the opportunity to educate and touch the lives of more than 2,000 students. I tried to know them all by face and name from day one, and I became a life mentor to several of them. Some, even non-Jews, asked me, a rabbi, to conduct their marriages. Today, after hearing Kamala Harris’s “holistic” TV interview on MSNBC, I remember one of them in particular.Harris’s Strategy
We who closely follow this stuff have long known that Harris is a phony, a three-dollar bill not even worth the inflated paper on which it is printed. She is unworthy to be even a candidate for president, and if she is elected, G-d forbid, the Creator of the Universe will repay and punish those who elected her with a Divinely exquisite measure for measure: they will have her for their president over the next quadrennium.
We know by now that she is not going to do many, if any, press conferences, and the few interviews for which she will sit will be only with hand-picked Democrat ringers. Even then, she may require Walz to be seated alongside her throughout the interview like a court-appointed guardian assigned to accompany a child for a rarely approved visitation with an abusive parent under a restraining order.
Her handlers keep her restrained. The strategy works. Let’s say all you eat all day is a quart of Haagen-Dazs or McConnell’s ice cream (rightly boycotting Ben & Jerry’s) followed by a box of 32 Godiva or See’s chocolates, flushed down by a six-pack of any beer except for Bud Lite.
OK? That’s your daily diet, seven days weekly through the past ten years. Meanwhile, your blood lab draws come back with numbers reflecting perfect hemoglobin, creatinine, A1C, cholesterol (all three: HDL, LDL, and Triglycerides), and all else perfect, even the molars. OK?
Then, although your doctors and dentist will be scratching their heads, why stop? Indeed, just the opposite: Don’t dare stop! It tastes great, and it’s working!
That’s the Harris campaign strategy. They all know that if she opens her mouth unscripted she will get politically crushed. So they rightly advise her to keep it up. Just shut up and cackle. Meantime, it works.
Rarely, she takes a risk and agrees to be interviewed by a ringer such as Oprah or her mother or some leftist hack at MSNBC. Recently, she did one of those, and whiffed at several softball tosses. She sounded OK to the unsophisticated, seemed to the gullible, and to know what she was talking about. But it was like Walter Mondale sitting alongside Gary Hart and asking “Where’s the Beef?”(READ MORE from Dov Fischer: Why We Inherently Despise Kamala Harris)
For example, when asked about what she would do about high mortgage rates (i) preventing a generation of young people from buying their first home and experiencing the American Dream, and also (ii) restricting older homeowners from selling their low-interest-mortgage homes to downscale or upscale because of insanely higher borrowing rates, Harris said this without having a script, thus having to think:
[I]t’s going to be different in different places, depending on the needs of that community, the needs of that local government, that municipality, but working in consultation and coordination and also around incentives that we can create.
For example, some of the work is going to be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars, and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in a holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing for working people.
