Joe Biden had a disastrous debate a few weeks ago. And ever since there have been members of his own party and Hollywood big shots telling Joe to step aside. We don't know what will become of it but lots of folks are saying Kamala Harris should run because she would be the only one to have access to the Biden'ts war chest of donations.
In the latest poll that I saw of Trump vs. Kamala, Trump won by a very large margin.
But what if Biden does make it into the White House this fall and a few months later is declared mentally unfit? Kamala would then take over as President for the next 4 years! That'd be a real bummer because she isn't real bright and the world's despots and terrorists would be less scared of her than they are of Joe.
One of the inevitable results of President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance last month and subsequent refusal to drop out of the 2024 presidential race in November is the increasing attention being paid to his running mate. Vice President Kamala Harris has been something of a punch line since she assumed her current office. But now that most Democratic officeholders and pundits have realized that the president is unlikely to win re-election, she has, for a number of compelling reasons, become the most likely replacement for him should he be prevailed upon to drop out.
That means that even though she has fared poorly during her time in office, many of the same biased corporate media hacks that spent years covering up the growing evidence of Biden's lack of mental acuity are now taking up the task of convincing the country that the generally accepted opinion of Harris as someone whose talents have not kept pace with her ambition is mistaken.
One major front in the battle to reintroduce Harris to the public relates to her stance on the war waged by Israel against Hamas in Gaza after the terrorist attacks on Oct. 7. Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, has been the figurehead for the administration's toothless "U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism."
The vice president reminded the left-wing base of the party that she hopes to lead--either this year or in the future--that this is the one issue about which she's been willing to signal her disagreement with her boss, dubbed "Genocide Joe" by pro-Palestinian protesters for his on-again/off-again backing for Israel. In an interview with the leftist magazine The Nation, Harris lauded the mobs who have demanded that the terrorists be allowed to survive, as well as backing their calls for Israel's destruction and terrorism against Jews.
She did throw in some weasel words to distance herself from what the Israel-haters who took over campuses, and blocked streets and bridges, in addition to demonstrating outside Jewish businesses and synagogues, have been saying. But much like what Biden and other Democrats falsely assert that former President Donald Trump said about neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, Harris seems to think that those chanting "from the river to the sea" and engaging in open acts of antisemitism are very fine people.
Sympathy for anti-Semites
"They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza," said Harris about protesters who have, in some cases, been paid by Amnesty International or even Iran. "There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don't mean to wholesale endorse their points. But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it."
There's nothing new about Harris embracing those who libel Israel. In September 2021 during an appearance at George Mason University in Virginia, a student given the opportunity to ask the vice president a question launched into a tirade in which she claimed Israel's existence was an act of "ethnic genocide" and condemned U.S. funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system that prevents its people from being slaughtered by Palestinian terrorist rockets.
In response, Harris didn't challenge these antisemitic libels, instead responding with a lecture about pluralism and the need for activism. "Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard," Harris told the student.
When asked about the three college presidents who wouldn't declare that advocacy for the genocide of Jews was against their schools' rules, Emhoff said the trio "lacked moral clarity." The same might be said of his wife, who seems to think that a movement that has mainstreamed hatred for Jews should be judged by its supposed good intentions.
That might be the sort of answer that the intersectional wing of the Democrats that despises Israel is looking for. Still, it poses a difficult question for Jewish Democrats, who are clinging to the dubious notion that she and her Jewish husband would be allies of a Jewish community facing a post-Oct. 7 surge of antisemitism, let alone a friend of Israel.
I have never believed that Biden would leave the race voluntarily and have pointed out to those who assume that some shadowy group of Democratic kingmakers could force him to do so that they are mistaken. Over the course of the last 60 years, American political parties have been hollowed out in the name of democracy, and there are no bosses or machines that can decide presidential nominations. Whether referring to congressional leaders, Hollywood Democrats like George Clooney or the editorial board of The New York Times, there is no "they" that can make Biden do anything he doesn't want to do.
Everything we know about his arrogance, contempt for critics and the single-minded lust for power that defines both him and his wife argue that Biden will never concede defeat or be persuaded to withdraw. Short of Divine Providence intervening in the election in some manner (or as the president told George Stephanopoulos, "the Lord Almighty" personally telling him to drop out), Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee.
The only plausible alternative
If he were to drop out, anyone who assumes that Harris could be bypassed for the Democratic nomination is dreaming. Only she can access the money that has been raised for Biden's campaign. It's just as true that dumping a black woman from the ticket is something that the Democratic Party can't contemplate. They are fixated on identity politics and the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that can be viewed as mandating Biden's choice of Harris in 2020. And that's not even mentioning the fact that female African-Americans are the Democrats' most loyal voters.
Equally important, if Biden is able to defy the pollsters and the widespread perception of his decline and defeat former President Donald Trump in November, the odds that he would be able to serve out a second term are steep, leaving many to assume that Harris, who is already a heartbeat away from the presidency, would replace him at some point in the next four years.
That makes it even more imperative that Harris undergo far more scrutiny than she has already received.
To be fair to her, few who have occupied the office of vice president have thrived in it. As John Adams, the first vice president put it, it is, "The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived, or his imagination conceived." Unless and until they were elevated to the top job by the death of the president, virtually every vice president prior to the last half-century was not just left out of major policy decisions, but ignored.
Here; Kamala Harris Presidency? The Death Knell For US-Israel Relations (prophecynewswatch.com)
Over the long term it really won't matter WHO becomes the next President of the USA. As one preacher recently said, "Try and think of ANY problem that any follower of Christ might have that won't be solved by the rapture."
America is going to implode and we are getting more and more optimistic that it's going to stay together until the rapture of the church starts America's implosion. She will NOT be available to defend Israel at that time...even if she wanted to.
In the meantime we rest in the knowledge that God has everything under control. He's not on His throne saying, "Oh no! I didn't want Trump as president!"
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