Not words, words, and more words, but practical effort from now until election day to get out the vote for Kamala and down ballot Democrats is the best measure of one’s political understanding and commitment to defeating Trump and MAGA.
Kamala’s presidential bid has changed the political dynamics of the elections, big time I would say. Not sure if any of us have caught up with, what I consider, a political sea change. The anti-Trump coalition today is broader, deeper, and more energized than it was a week or so ago. And the challenge for all of us is to keep pace and BE A PART of this dynamic political process. This isn’t a time to cocoon ourselves off in our own spaces, apart from these broader electoral forms of organization and action. Join, Join, Join should be our mantra. And our aim, obviously, should be to elect Kamala and a Democratic majority in the House and Senate.
I wrote yesterday that the door seems to be closing on an alternative candidate to replace Biden unless Nancy worked her magic. Looks like I was wrong about the closing door. Reports today make it appear that Nancy worked her magic and Biden is seriously considering stepping out of the race. That is good news in my opinion. Don’t think we could have won with him at the head of the ticket. By the way, I don’t make much of Kamala’s approval numbers. That they are close to Biden’s is to be expected. Assuming she is the nominee — and that is most likely — and moves into the public eye, her numbers, I believe, will go up as voters get to know her and her plans for the country.
Vice President Harris isn’t Kamala Harris the presidential primary candidate of four years ago. To the contrary, four years as the Vice President representing the Biden administration in public forums has allowed her to tweak her communication skills and familiarize herself with national and global issues as well as various policy matters. No one else on the short list of presidential aspirants can make that claim nor draw from the experience to contest and upbraid Trump as much as she can. Finally, as presidential candidate Harris, she doesn’t have to defend every policy of the administration over the past four years. She can stake out her own approach to various issues.
That was an impressive speech by President Biden last night. A stark contrast to the speeches of Trump and Netanyahu delivered earlier in the day. The latter two, as you know, are dangerous demagogues who earn the title every day. Yesterday was no different. In fact, the two of them over performed, one before Congress; the other at a campaign rally.
73 year old Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders was vocally undiminished and full of lots of energy at recent Pretenders concert at Tanglewood. She’s 73. Wish I could catch her again before they head back to Europe. She’s straight out of Akron, Ohio.
