Commentary

All this time, I thought Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris to be his running mate because he wanted to take credit for naming the first black woman to that position.  It was natural.  He boasted about it endlessly.

Could it be, however, that he viewed her ineptness taking the spotlight off his own?  It didn’t take long. She failed her first assignment at the border.

Nearly every other day we are treated to coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris on the world stage.  During her Wednesday night appearance on the CBS Late Show, host Stephen Colbert asked her if Biden understands what it’s like to be vice president.  On odd question since he was once vice president himself.

“He does, he does,” Harris replied.  “He is really a true partner and the understands that job … and remember, we came in during the height of the pandemic and so much of the work was about … okay, we’ve got to cover a lot bases and let’s figure out between us how we can do it.

“But he’s an extraordinary leader and I wish people could see what I see because there’s only one person who sits behind that Resolute Desk.  And the decisions that person has to make are the decisions that nobody else in the country can make.  He’s an extraordinary leader” she continued, “He really is.”

“That’s an excellent answer,” said a smiling Colbert, “but, oh, the question was what’s the job of vice president,” causing Harris to burst out with one of her cackles.

There’s More … How pathetic.  We have a vice president who has embarrassed us with her wild remarks about her love of yellow school buses, electric school buses, and Venn diagrams of all things, during a period of serious issues, like high inflation with its high prices, the disastrous open border, and the funding of the war in Ukraine.

Then, on Thursday, when her Alma Mater Howard University Bisons lost in the first round of March Madness to Kansas, for some reason she felt the need to talk to the losing team.

It wasn’t even close. The Bisons lost by 28 points, yet Harris told the team, “You played hard.  You played to the very last second. You made us all Bisons proud. You are smart.  You are disciplined.  You put everything you had into the game.  You guys did not stop, and that is so inspiring.  So, keep playing with chin up and shoulders back because you showed the world who Bison are.”

“Keep playing,” Kamala?  They’re finished.  “You showed the world who Bison are,” Kamala? They’re losers.

Sadly, I don’t think Harris gave much thought to her “pep talk” before going to the locker room.  Coaches, men and women, just know what to say and not to say. Coaches like Tennessee’s Pat Summit and UCLA’s John Wooden, who once said “Success comes from knowing you did your best that you are capable of becoming.”

The buzz in Washington is about Harris’s future.  In the end, will Biden actually run in 2024, and if so, will she be on the ticket?

May God continue to bless the United States of America.