Be Very Verry Careful...

Comments like this cut both ways:

Harris has allowed her campaign to transcend the minutiae of public policy. Instead, she has allowed herself to be what liberals, and many moderates, needed: a beacon of hope, above the tedium of bureaucracy, existing as an applaudable symbol.  (Charles Blow, NYT)

To a now wealthy NYT columnist, the "minutiae of public policy" remains unimportant, but to the American people many of whose lives depend on the "minutiae of public policy", they want answers...

How do she and Joe Biden differ on issues like:  support of Netanyahu's Israel and his genocide in Palestine (are we supposed to forget that because she reminds us of Beyonce?  Beyonce sings, Kamala wants to lead the country... that's the difference.)

How will she help the homeless, whose numbers have exploded during Joe Biden's term.  Dare we ask how she will lead Congress to an immigration solution that makes things more fair for all American workers? Or does the press plan to give her a free pass because she is so happy and joyous and needs not focus on the little details... ?

Be for real.  Not everyone who voted Trump loved the man, but he finally dragged into the open the issues that the American Congress needs to address... yesterday.  If Kamala tries to skirt the public policy questions because we find her attractive and she makes us feel good, only those already wealthy and secure with the status quo will stay on board.

You need to think of the country as a whole, Mr. Blow, and start seeing people not in the same economic class as you now.  It will be another four long years if she is elected and cannot do the job with the country's problems the American people need their president to lead DC politicians and the media to address and reform.  Bring the #Change or don't hype us like this.

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To win, Kamala Harris will have to disregard this advice, and pray that other columnists don't believe this.  :

The reality is that if Harris is elected, her policies probably won’t diverge from President Biden’s in any substantial way, and lingering on the thorniest issues, like the war in Gaza, that were threatening to tear the Democratic coalition apart would pay few electoral dividends.

She is going to have to take risks to create the #Change that oOthers believe she is promising the country now.  The younger voters especially will accept nothing less than a real change in the current status quo, and losing some of the older now deadweights in the Dem party:  Joe is not the only oldster who has worn out his welcome and will have to go to make room for the new viewpoints coming from new demographics in this country.... Hth, really. 

Don't make promises you can't deliver on. Don't get people "up" only to pull the rug out from under them.

From the subsumed archives, circa 2005.  (Barack's not around watching the White Sox today, note.  Errbody loves a winner... they not around when the team's taking horrible losses. Just sayin.)

Tuesday, July 19

"On the South Side, we don't ride like that."

Here's one of the most e-mailed stories from espn.com. (Link should have 2 pages). Great writing by Scoop Jackson that really captures the "flava" of the mid-season pennant race:

They all know how this side of town works. They know that while fantasy springs eternal up north in Wrigleyville, fatalism runs thangs on the other side of Roosevelt Road.

Ride the Redline to 35th. "Who's the best team in baseball? The Cardinals or the White Sox?" you'll hear. Those who answer "Pale Hose" still don't sound like they believe it.

It's called the art of un-panicking. It's a body language and mind-set embraced by a couple of million people who want to pull out those black 1993 White Sox caps, but are afraid to because they don't want to be getting dressed for their own funeral.