Washington Post Destroys Harris Over Campaign Memoir, Book Tour
Shorter WaPo to Harris: “Goodbye! Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.”
Holy. Moly.
The Washington Post editorial board did not hold back in its opinion piece about former Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir and book tour.
The introduction: “No one, perhaps not even Kamala Harris, knows for certain whether Kamala Harris really wants to be president. The promotional tour for her new book hasn’t cleared up that mystery, but it has reminded the country why most Americans did not want her in the White House.”
Harris detailed her brief presidential campaign in her book, 107 Days. I believe it came out today.
The book shows nothing but a bitter woman who pointed fingers at everyone for her loss except at herself:
Is Harris a brilliant political mind who simply freezes up in front of cameras? Alas, taking the time to organize her thoughts in writing doesn’t help much. Indeed, virtually every page of her book, “107 Days,” offers a glaring reminder of why she failed to close the deal.
Much of the book is score-settling that ought to be beneath an aspiring president — the sort of small-mindedness that Democrats rightly knock President Donald Trump for. She is annoyed at Joe and Jill Biden over the former president’s decision to run again, but she did not press him to withdraw, even privately, because it was “as if we’d all been hypnotized.” The critique also extends to staffers and potential running mates. Even her husband gets chastised for failing to arrange a suitable birthday celebration while he was out on the road trying to get her elected.
A once and perhaps future presidential candidate should have a better grasp on what presidential leadership sounds like, even in a self-serving memoir. Instead, Harris creates the image of herself as an A student who tells interviewers her greatest weakness is that she’s just too much of a perfectionist.
I find it hard to believe the editorial board only just now discovered that Harris cannot perform in interviews. She’s known for her word salads.
The editorial board appeared dumbfounded that Harris “seemed uncomfortable and inauthentic” during an interview on friendly turf.
Harris made a fool out of herself on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s show when she called President Donald Trump a communist dictator.
But Harris also did not endorse socialist Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. Instead, all she said was, “I support the Democrat in the race.”
Uh, okay? Does this lady even want to stay in politics? Harris’s supporters touted her as the next leader of the Democratic Party.
It’s no wonder Harris avoids shows and stations where she would face challenging questions.
On The View, Harris admitted she “didn’t fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and President Biden.”
Harris declined to run for California governor, making people believe she’ll try for the presidency in 2028.
First of all, Harris made no progress during her short 2020 presidential campaign. I think the campaign only lasted a few months.
Second, I can imagine the Democratic hopefuls would throw the memoir back at Harris.
Could you imagine Harris on the stage with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg?
Harris admitted in her book that she didn’t pick Buttigieg for her running mate because it would be “too big of a risk” for a black woman with a Jewish husband to pick a gay man.
Why not? America wasn’t ready for it.
Again, Harris’s loss is everyone’s fault except her.
Well, WaPo doesn’t want Harris to run in 2028:
The best that can be said about Harris’s step back into the spotlight is that it’s happening now. Democrats have a real shot at victory in 2028, but they won’t have time to waste on someone like the former vice president.
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Yes, it sounds like WaPo nailed it. Hopefully, she will demand that the Dems nominate her again for 2028.
I’ll get the popcorn.
Yes but they had to throw in a dig against Trump. They can’t help themselves because of TDS and every article that has a negative theme will have Trump’s name in it.
Yeah, that stuck out like a sore thumb.
If Kammie is to be remembered for only one thing, let it be that she actually managed to make the shitlib media embarrassed to be progressive.
Harris needs deep pockets to fund any election.
I do not see anyone lining up to fund her campaign.
Pritzker has spent over $300 million to be governor.
I suspect he would be willing to spend $1 Billion to become president.
She plowed through $2 billion in 107 days. Imagine the potential graft if she had a full cycle to blast through other people’s money.
The Democrats will choose whoever can raise the most money, like they always do. Harris has burned that bridge so, no, she won’t be the nominee.
She’ll take a half-hearted shot at it and then quit, griping that the party didn’t appreciate her enough. Pass the flavored vodka please, and shut up.
“Democrats have a real shot at victory in 2028”. Really?
Never question what a democrat means by “shot”.
Anybody can take a shot.
Actually hitting a larget takes competence,
She’ll use sexual favors to get nominated.
Hillary did that. By proxy (Madonna), needless to say! Doesn’t work.
Not enough time during the entire campaign. I’d write more, but I’d get in trouble.
I still believe that some conservative restaurant should offer a Kamala salad with eveything in it but no flavor!
If Banksy wasn’t such a hopeless progressive, he could make one by putting Kammy’s book through an industrial shredder, then garnishing with confetti, glitter, and generously shaved currency.
It would be raaaaaacist to not nominate her in ’28. Team Cleopatra … er Kamalatoe … er …
I prefer Kamalaladingdong.
I’d actually go to a book tour event IF they had it mixed with a free wine tasting. My hunch is the probability of that is pretty high.
Political science used to be fairly highbrow. I was listening to Bernard Harcourt on what brought on Trump and what to do about it. He can’t resist the 18th Brumaire of Marx on Bonaparte
Victor Hugo confines himself to bitter and witty invective against the responsible producer of the coup d’etat. The event itself appears in his work like a bolt from the blue. He sees in it only the violent act of a single individual. He does not notice that he makes this individual great instead of little by ascribing to him a personal power of initiative unparalleled in world history. Proudhon, for his part, seeks to represent the coup d’etat as the result of an antecedent historical development. Inadvertently, however, his historical construction of the coup d’etat becomes a historical apologia for its hero. Thus he falls into the error of our so-called objective historians. I, on the contrary, demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.
Preface to the 2nd edition (1869)
That’s Trump-level academicism. You won’t see that today. Hitler and fascist aren’t cutting it though.
Monkeys don’t throw mortarboards.
Harris will not run as she is busy burning every bridge during her book tour to the point everyone hates her.
Dan Turrentine on 2Way described it as ” Democrats are looking at her and saying Jesus Christ, what are you doing”?
The winebox is strong in this one.
Even WaPo sees that Harris must be sunsetted. The party can’t successfully re-organize for a future presidential election until she’s a small dot in the rear-view mirror.
She has a political future as a kingmaker.
Candidates will pay her NOT to endorse them.
Kammy exemplifies Didn’t Earn It. Neither servicing Brown Willy, having brown skin, nor absence of Y chromosomes qualifies somebody for any public office, let alone the presidency. I have rarely seen anybody exhibit so much disparity between self-regard and reason for it. Compared to China Joe, Kammy is similarly stupid but without the excuse of senility.
The Demoncrats have learned that their control of big media cannot compensate for their candidates’ complete idiocy. It will be interesting to see who they pull out of the hat in 2028.