Kamala Harris: Obama’s ‘Ding-Dong’
The whiny Neil Cavuto didn’t like it on Monday when Sen. John Kennedy noted, during a guest appearance on his Fox News show, that “many Americans think that the vice president is a little bit of a ding-dong.”
Cavuto proceeded to scold Kennedy for “name-calling,” and covered himself by lamenting verbal cruelty coming from both sides of the political aisle.
But while Kennedy’s unkind characterization of Kamala Harris might have perturbed Cavuto and incensed the various X mobsters of the Left into dubbing him a racist, sexist, and whatever other tired slurs of their choice, that doesn’t make him wrong.
Kamala is a ding-dong. Everybody knows she is.
Harris Is a Radical. No Doubt About It.
If it wasn’t commonly known that she’s a cackling imbecile whose political rise was a combination of casting-couch mentorship, identity politics, and Third-World puppeteering, her handlers wouldn’t be working as hard as they’ve been for the last 10 days to recast her as a “cultural phenomenon.”
You’re seeing the most breathtaking fake-it-till-you-make-it campaign since Lou Pearlman left the music business, complete with cringy identity-politics Zoom calls, tens of millions of dollars raised from “small, first-time donors” whose contributions surprisingly come in Sunday night, media whitewashes of commonly-known facts and a candidate even more absent from public scrutiny than even Basement Joe Biden was.
Why? Because she’s a ding-dong.
Kamala Harris, in the space of a few seconds of a CNN interview when she was running for president in the 2020 cycle, voiced support for limiting the amount of red meat available to American consumers, favored banning plastic straws, and sought to eliminate privately-owned gasoline-powered cars.
She’s for the elimination of private health insurance and hydraulic fracturing, though now she says she’s for fracking. Harris is pro-gay, pro-trans, pro-Hamas, and deeply anti-Catholic (though she did enable pedophile priests while DA in San Francisco; apparently she’s for corruption of religion rather than religion itself). (WATCH: The Spectator P.M. Podcast Ep. 64: Kamala Harris Is Radically Anti-Catholic and Anti-Life)
Those are ding-dong positions. They’re not serious public-policy stances. It isn’t possible to successfully run a country on such an agenda.
We know this because we’ve seen America over the past four years. And we saw America during the eight years Barack Obama was president.
Obama’s Protege
Harris has always been an Obama protege. Obama directed his donors to her 2020 campaign before it crashed on the launch pad. Obama’s influence was clear in Joe Biden’s choice of Harris as his VP. We now know that it was Obama who fired Biden as the 2024 Democrat nominee despite the latter having won all of the Democrat Party primaries earlier this year; Seymour Hirsch has reported that Obama lowered the boom on Biden by threatening to have Harris and the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
The only question in this timeline is whether Biden didn’t exact some revenge on Obama by quickly endorsing Harris and therefore foreclosing his ability to manipulate an “open” convention process to choose a new nominee.
Even that is mostly immaterial, as the current Democrat Party nominee will inevitably be an Obama puppet. Until the Democrats suffer the good, hard ass-kicking up and down the ballot they so richly deserve, Barack Obama will control that party lock, stock, and barrel. And it doesn’t matter whether the reports claiming that Arizona senator Mark Kelly was more favored by Obama as the 2024 nominee instead of Harris are true. The fact remains that it’s Barack Obama’s Democrat Party, the one he built shortly following John Kerry’s ignominious 2004 defeat and which lumbers on into possibly its third decade of dragging America to the left, which lined up behind his failed former puppet of choice.
Obama might have wanted a competition. He wasn’t upset by the fact there was none. His concern wasn’t about whether Harris would do his bidding but whether he could sell her the way Pearlman sold those manufactured music bands (until he couldn’t).
But those concerns, for whatever reason, abated. And so now we have Harris, who is best described as a Xerox copy of Obama.
As in, a Xerox copy of a Xerox copy of a Xerox copy, with all the consequent degradation in quality.
A Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox… ad nauseum
She’s more a citizen of the world than a red-blooded American, just like Obama. She came up in radical deep-blue urban politics, just like Obama. She’s been coddled and protected by the media and political class all the way up through her career, just like Obama. She’s lived a suspect personal life in some respects, though not necessarily parallel to Obama. She’s been referred to as “inauthentically black,” with a background different from that of a classic African-American whose ancestors were brought to this country as slaves, as Obama was. Like Obama was, she’s now being packaged as far more “hip” and “cool” than a serious wielder of political power subject to accountability therefrom.
And she’s for every hard-socialist, implausibly green, totalitarian policy imaginable. Just like Obama.
In a brilliant takedown of Harris as a perfect puppet for Obama, Lee Smith, writing at Tablet Magazine, noted that Obama had been bent on replacing Joe Biden ever since Oct. 7 of last year, when the Iran-backed Hamas terrorists Obama has favored since his time palling around with Edward Said at Columbia and Rashid Khalidi back in Chicago pulled off their mass-murder masterpiece…
The question is when, exactly, did it become clear to Obama that it was time for Harris to finally replace Biden? Was it after Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump? After the attempted assassination of Trump? No, it seems the countdown officially began Oct. 7. The Palestinians’ murderous assault on communities in southern Israel exposed Biden’s limited ability to represent the interests of the party he was tapped to temporarily preside over. It didn’t require an especially refined moral sensibility to be appalled and terrified by the carnivalesque depravity of Oct. 7—but to give Biden credit, he evidently was. And that was the signal his time was up.
He‘s no John Fetterman. Biden is not a particularly courageous friend of the Jewish state, nor does he appear to much value the strategic importance of an ally that lessens America’s burden in a region vital to U.S. interests. When it comes to Israel, the 81-year-old president is just a normal late-20th-century Democrat who likes the country well enough, recognizes Jews as an important albeit small voting bloc and a crucial source of campaign funds, and performs ritualistic contempt for Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
But last Wednesday’s pro-Hamas riots in Washington, D.C.—in which domestic left-wing extremists linked arms with Middle East terror supporters and other foreigners to burn the American flag, deface monuments, and brawl with police, all in the name of protesting Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress—was only the latest evidence that the crux of Biden’s Oct. 7 problem was not that Michigan and Minnesota’s voter rolls are swollen with advocates of Muslim and Arab terror. The issue was not a party constituency at all, but rather the party itself and its leader. Barack Obama fundamentally reshaped the party when he struck the 2015 deal legalizing the nuclear weapons program of Hamas’ sponsor, Iran. By legitimizing the apocalyptic foreign policy aims of the world power that embodies Jew hatred, Obama sidelined the Jews and other centrists and made the progressive, anti-Israel faction the party’s new center of gravity.
But Smith is just a little off when he frames the rejection of Biden as an unsuitable frontman for the Obama machine as insufficient disdain for Israel. It isn’t Israel that Obama despises, it’s America. It’s Western civilization.
The New (and Leaky) Instrument of Destruction
The destruction of the West has been Obama’s project his entire adult life, as I noted in Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama. And Harris, whom Smith describes as an empty vessel into which he can pour all of his resentments and aggressions cultural, political, and economic, is the new instrument of that destruction.
But, like Biden except for different reasons, Harris is a leaky vessel.
For all the pomp and circumstance surrounding her elevation, Kamala Harris is not a viable candidate for the presidency. She has no record of accomplishment, and what record she does have her allies in the media are furiously attempting to scrub. Or haven’t you heard that Harris was not actually the border czar, regardless of the mountain of media coverage to that exact effect when Biden named her his “point person” in dealing with the border his stupid policies were causing to be overrun with migrants?
She has no ability to communicate as Obama could. Harris does duplicate to an extent the gaseous rhetoric Obama regaled audiences with during his time on the political stage, but the difference was that with Obama one could discern a certain philosophical direction. What can one discern from “the significance of the passage of time” or “unburdened by what was?”
And while Obama had a talent, mostly burnished by shamefully sycophantic media coverage, for creating fake middle grounds around which to frame his radical policies, Harris can’t rise to that level. Hers is fangirl leftism, no more well-considered than that of an average ding-dong lefty co-ed and not much more well-articulated.
It’s a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox.
Kennedy isn’t wrong to call this sham of a campaign by derisive names, whether it hurts Neil Cavuto’s feelings or not.
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