She was selected to diversify the ticket, thus attracting voters from many demographics an old white dude doesn't draw. Are YOU suggesting that Kamala Harris only attracts Black voters? I didn't think so.

I would suggest it's the primary reason.

Sure it gave CA voters something to consider. But overall the calculation was she attracted Black voters.

You need to consider the context and timing of the selection, the US was going through BLM protest/unrest.

How angry were you when trump said he'd choose a woman for the supreme court?
#152 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Only someone throwing around false accusations of "cheap fakes", and "propaganda" at Biden being feeble, would consider pointing out legitimate facts as "angry".

You don't have to be a MAGAt to see that reality, you just need to stop regurgitating the narratives the media is spoon feeding you.

"Part of me feels Biden realized that while the heart was willing the body wasn't..."
That is exactly what I thought: his heart was willing but his body wasn't up to the task of running the country and campaigning for the presidency at the same time. Then he got Covid, which reinforced to him the the non-negotiable truth of that reality.
#19 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

He has taken 1 years worth of vacation when the RNC started. He shouldn't have run to begin with.

My take is Harris is taking over duties of running the country, but anything go wrong she'll pass the buck. Biden's going to relax until his last day.

Watch that lead melt away into thin air if Shapiro is picked for VP.

#22 | POSTED BY NERFHERDER

Why?

How do you explain republican politicians being a much higher ratio of white men than the general population?
#27 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Because PoC are ridiculed about "keeping them in chains" "you ain't black". Really crazy how racist some of this stuff gets.

But its about the same way I explain Democrat politicians being much higher ratio of lawyers than the general population.

I find this interesting.

I remember he promised to appoint a black woman to the SC.

#149 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

#143 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

Just an observation of American government.

I would expect Governors to be better Presidents than congressmen. Perhaps Harris should pick an governor for VP.

Just for esses and gees, can anyone hear recall any "significant accomplishments or policy initiatives" from former VPs Pence, Biden, or Quayle?

Yes I can, Biden ..

1. Handling Ukraine reconstruction after the coup.
2. ACA. there isn't a man alive that knew congress and "how sausage is made" better than Biden. Obama relied upon him often.

Evidence does not support your hypothesis that Harris was forced to hide her light under a bushel and that Democratic elites, including/especially Joe Biden, deliberately tried to sideline her.
#145 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

I don't beleive it for second, but it is possible. There are some theories which are plausbile, and Biden's "Iammaquitting" speech generated more questions than answers.

For instance we know Pelosi was saying "Joe needs to figure out if he's running", when clearly Biden had been saying he's in it to win it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/nancy-pelosi-biden-close-to-dropping-out/

Or the "we can do this the easy way or the hard way".

Biden really had no answers for his reasoning to exit.

The other flaw in your logic that Kamala "was selected to diversity (diversify?) the ticket and pull in votes" is that Biden won the nomination because of black voters. He didn't need to pick a black woman to get their votes; he already had them.

This is somewhat false.

Pressure Grows On Joe Biden To Pick A Black Woman As His Running Mate

In late April, more than 200 black women who are leaders and activists within the Democratic party signed an open letter to the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden calling on him to select a black woman as his running mate.

"It is a fact that the road to the White House is powered by Black women and Black women are the key to a Democratic victory in 2020," they wrote.

Past three summers we have had air alert warnings due to wildfire smoke. The fires are well over a thousand miles away. Suppose it will be coming soon.
#5 | POSTED BY MATTM

The town of Jasper, Alberta is currently burning.
#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Likely the most dangerous flight ever flown by that cartel pilot!
#3 | POSTED BY GONOLES92

Strange Zambada didn't fly his own private plane. In Mexico they constantly steal planes.

Go down there, and watch the planes land with no ADSB.

VPOTUS Kamala Harris as the "Border Czar" can take credit for this one too! See my other comment about her outstanding work at the border. Thank you, GOP.

#2 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

This is what I am saying, lots to take credit for, trying to rewrite history while gaslighting the entire country over a "safe and secure" border is just silly.

I have seen worse bleeding from a shaving cut

As I said it nicked him, didn't pierce his ear.

I don't know why its so hard to accept facts. Sure would be nice to have a medical report, but it was just a nick, do you got to the hospital because you nicked yourself shaving?

Nothing serious, certainly didn't warrant the patch he wore at the convention.

But all this obscures there was an attempted assassination on Trump, as if there is some doubt about the veracity of the whole event.

The head of the FBI seems to be alleging that their investigators have no had personal access to Trump - to visually assess his wound - nor to his detailed medical records - which would also assist in determining what precisely happened.
~ Tony

Heres probably the reality Tony.

Biden appointed her BorderCzar, because he was getting slaughtered in the media, and she was complaining she wasn't doing any thing of substance.

I correctly noted that the right wing invented the frame of "border czar" out of thin air based on proven knowledge that their audience doesn't have the intellectual sophistication to discern a more complicated truth.

Again more gaslighting ...

And herein lies the problem with trying to discuss anything of substance with right wing fools, safely ensconced in their own bubble, oblivious to the truth even when it's spoon fed to them.

They aren't spoon fed, the media said exactly what the right-wingers are saying.

Our "open borders, liberal" wants "secure borders".

Of course what kind of person wouldn't.

Open borders doesn't mean chaotic borders, you need to vet the migrants entering the country at PoE.

The border is secure. America is secure.

Thats what I said, why is Harris running away from it if its TRUE? Seems like it would be win for her and Biden.

As I've stated repeatedly, the efforts that Harris led were long term policy changes that would take years to manifest.

Not what NBC said, just because you say it "repeatedly" makes it true?

What exactly were those efforts? I see alot of talk, but not seeing the results.

This conversation describes exactly the issue lots of "discussion", no results.

That does not define a failure.

It kind of does when you can't point to something concrete.

Normally this issue is addressed the immigration

Oh
Well
Too many bigots
#3 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

No it's not, it's abnormal, show me a country that has survived mass immigration (legal or illegal) to have its children. It shows that your culture is dying. As a Chinese immigrant, I can see it clear as day.

The demand for ever expanding economic growth is a cancer in our collective thought.

This! This! A thousand times this!
~ MBLUE

It's not a cancer, it's life. Either you're growing or you're receding, within a timescale. There's no alternatives it is a dichotomy of all life, and life forms, entropy is a bitch.

Find me one instance in the history of time where this isn't the case.

- Modern society has really switched the role of children in the household from a small assistant around the house/farm, to a never ending vessel of extracurricular activities and exorbitant costs in childcare (if young children and dual income household), or time (if homeschooled/ single income household, one working parent).

It's a tough field these days.

#16 | POSTED BY GONOLES92

This is the American way appearently. In my household the children are small assistants, they do the yard work, empty the garbage, walk the dog, clean up after the dog. Sure It's easier to pay some mow and blow $100 a month. But my children will get an "education" and also get outside, learn a little responsibility.

I see fellow employees dragging their children around the country to play pickleball & AAU tournaments. They claim it's so their child can pay for college with a scholarship. What I don't understand is if they just took that money, and put it in a 529 they are guaranteed to have enough money for their children's college education.

Idk ... maybe the parents are living through their children, instead of being parents.

Their business.
Stop trying to manage other peoples lives.
#18 | POSTED BY FRESNO500

This is a sad take.

The question is how can the US create a better environment, more incentives to have more children. Older people without children have no incentive to make the world a better place (See Boomers). From neighborhoods, communities, State, Country.

Its funny everyone complains about Boomers not caring, which I agree with, but the current generation not having children will just follow their footsteps.

#66

I disagree Visitor, Kamala was successful at the border.

Its funny to watch Lumpers distance themselves from the "safe and secure border" under Joe Biden.

For years they have claimed it's fine, why not let Kamala take credit, it's bewildering.

I see gaslighter is living up to his alias.

Did Axios attribute that label to VP Harris?
- Gaslighter

Yes, from the link above ...

Why it matters: The number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border has reached crisis levels. Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, said she would be looking at the "root causes" that drive migration.

They are just as stupid as he is.

#139 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Lol nice deflection.

Pretty weak defense of you BS response though.