Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: It bothers me that Harris's attack on Biden was apparently coldly calculated in advance, [View all]emmaverybo
(8,149 posts)debating move, and an ability to evoke sympathy with a rehearsed scene, I have heard no compelling message from Harris. Maybe her theatrical triumph has obliterated whatever I look
for: authenticity, fairness, integrity. These are to me are just baseline qualities.
Thomas was well able to play the race card at Hills hearing, making her and the truth expendable to his blind ambition, making her color beside the point, but worse exploiting, for selfish ambition, something so painful in African American history, misappropriated to his own moment, just to serve conservative, and ironically, racist goals.
Many did not see it then, and fell for his pained outcry.
I saw it and I hated it then and the careful stepping over dance Dems did to avoid their own political minefield.
Exploiting earned suffering is one if the worst of slimey and unethical behaviors.
That is what I decry.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden