Finally, There's Movement in This Remarkably Close Race
As someone you know rather well wrote here not so long ago, how is this race even close?
We have a former president facing an about-to-be former vice president who's not done much in any of her previous jobs, especially including this one. And if you believe mainstream media, which many of us don't, the contest to become commander in chief is as tight as the snare drums I used to play.
One candidate campaigns virtually every day, often in areas not always hospitable to Republicans, outlining in detail his ideas for a second term.
The other candidate goes only to areas where Democrats are bounteous and speaks in happy homilies, unburdened by the disastrous details of what has been. She talks little of what can be in her administration because it is so far to the ideological left of what most Americans would knowingly vote for.
And Kamala Harris is not working all that hard at it either. She's been planted in Washington about half the time since her nomination. In fact, her campaign pace is right about the leisurely tempo that Hillary Clinton took in 2015-16 because the former first lady was so sure of inheriting hubby Bubba's Oval Office desk.
Hey, doing nothing from the basement succeeded for the old guy in his 2020 campaign because he was hiding growing signs of his mental and physical decay and counted on Democrats' antipathy toward Donald Trump to slip him into the Oval Office. And COVID was a great cover story.
That worked well.
Harris hopes to repeat that success by staying in the cloistered confines of her campaign cocoon while hiding the preexisting signs of her mental emptiness. Because when she ventures into spontaneity, Harris ends up sounding like a third grader giving a report on Iceland when the book was about Ireland. Take a peek at these examples:
She has described computer clouds as being “up there” in no particular place.
She has expressed real fake concern about the health crisis that, she states, has claimed the lives of 220 million Americans in recent months. That's about two-thirds of the nation's population. Have you noticed that much reduction in traffic?
And Harris constantly describes herself as a change agent. Even though both she and Joe Biden describe her as intimately involved in every major decision since Jan. 20, 2021. So, if change is so badly needed, why select one of the chief culprits who engineered the problems in the first place?
These decisions include the completely botched Afghanistan withdrawal, spending trillions of new dollars that spawned nine percent inflation, and enabling the entry into the country and willful dispersal of more than 10 million illegal aliens whose needs and actions will haunt communities for decades.
However, hope springs eternal, even in the Fall. Signs are emerging that the Harris charade is starting to crumble. And here, too. That's the subject of this week's audio commentary. Space is reserved below for your commentary.
The most recent audio commentary examined the stunning disparity in responses to this Fall's hurricanes by former President Trump and existing President Biden.
One flew in relief supplies on his own dime. The other plunked his bony butt down on the beach because he's just putting in the time til the government retirement checks start coming in from Congress and the White House.
The most recent Sunday column was a discussion of how strong and weak U.S. leaders affect history. For three of the last four presidential terms, we've had the weak kind. And we have the wars to prove it.
Finally, if you're looking for a little change of pace, you might try some of the ongoing series of personal Memories from the past many months. Coming up on two dozen so far, with more to come. They are all linked at the bottom of this post.
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