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The ‘Freebie’ Candidate
Kamala Harris is the “freebie” candidate. She has spectacularly leapfrogged the rigorous American democratic process that historically our presidents traverse to earn a major party nomination. Harris, the current American Vice President and newly minted Democrat Presidential nominee ascended to this pinnacle having NOT won a single primary contest or secured even one primary ballot. She was chosen by President Biden as his VP even though in December 2019 she was an early drop-out from Democrat 2020 primary competition.
Harris’s elevation might be viewed as a rarified example of the well-recognized management “Peter principle” observing that “employees rise to a level of respective incompetence.” Might Kamala’s ascent to being one-heartbeat-away from the Commander-in-Chief who is the holder of the nuclear codes, be the ultimate incompetence example? And will the entire country pay the price for her meteoric, but ill-conceived promotion to a position for which she is underqualified?
Let’s see what else “free” is embedded in her platform, her voting record and her recorded comments. Let’s consider what conforms with an easy “get out of jail free card” mindset and experience. Let’s note that her radical Far Left, even Left of Bernie Sanders, philosophy might well portend even more governmental largesse from her performance and policy as America’s Chief Executive. She supported California Proposition 47 allowing property crimes of less than $950 to be deemed as only misdemeanors. In her basket of free stuff, she supported student debt relief, basic income allowance, or Freedom Fund to exonerate criminals, healthcare for illegal immigrants, and the far-fetched Green New Deal with energy somehow economically coaxed out of the environment.
Along with President Biden, she has failed to control our sovereign borders and has enabled free and unaudited passage of millions of aliens into America. The presence of dangerous criminals and terrorists among the invaders is evidenced by a spate of vicious murders and rapes. The free flow of Fentanyl across the Biden-era open borders invasion has caused a massacre of Americans on the order of a major war’s fatality. Defunding police and the military will weaken us, and emphasizing woke doctrine will undermine our heritage of military excellence.
Beyond belief in monetary magic, these policies will only add to our mounting national debt and essentially redistribute wealth closer to a socialistic model. Beyond the fantasy that America’s enemies can be charmed into alignment, her geopolitical naivety with the tough adversaries we face will surely bring our country into harm’s way.
Kamala Harris, the current President of the Senate, chose to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s July 24 speech before a joint session of Congress. This diplomatic snub to the leader of our “most trusted” Middle East ally, who is painfully engaged in a multi-front hot war, telegraphs her animus or ambivalence towards Israel. Maybe Harris is threatened by a comparison of her expedient promotion to how the Israeli Prime Minister weathers Israel’s complex parliamentary electoral process. She knows the world witnessed the shell game shift from “Biden is sharp as a tack” to her post Trump-Biden debate expeditious coronation.
We already know that she has focused her attention since October 7 on the plight of the Palestinians. Algermeiner reported, “While speaking with Israeli President Isaac Herzog to mark the Jewish holiday of Passover in April, Harris shared ‘deep concerns about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and discussed steps to increase the flow of life-saving humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians and ensure its safe distribution.’”
Despite debunked reports on the civilian conditions in Gaza, Harris still opined “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane. And our common humanity compels us to act, The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid.” She added, “and given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks.” The context for the war’s casus belli, the necessity to rid Gaza of Hamas and the looming battle with Hezbollah, Houthis and Iran ought to temper her anti-Israel bias.
The deranged pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrations here in America earned her sympathy. She did not apply the weight of her office to call for a better understanding of the underlying cause of the conflict, and to support Israel and respect her long and well documented passage to statehood. Instead, her perspective about the demonstrators included, “…showing exactly what the human emotion should be.”
Kamala Harris’s radical Left leanings should give pro-Israel and Jewish voters great cause to worry. American Jews should wonder how her California progressive attitudes would affect Israel’s security. Despite whomever she picks as her vice president, including Jewish Josh Shapiro, and her cellophane man Jewish husband, American Jews and pro-Israel supporters need to compare and contrast her credentials to the alternative. They need to invest their vote and support accordingly.
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