It bothers me that Harris's attack on Biden was apparently coldly calculated in advance,

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249. I have a problem with insincerity and emotional manipulation, which was my takeaway from

Harris's debate performance after it became evident it was rehearsed and staged.

And it isn't my "personal problem" as you should know from all the other posts here from DUers who were put off by what she did. Or check out my other post in this thread about the reactions on Twitter to the t-shirt, replies to a tweet from CBS News.

I never felt a similar letdown after seeing emotional moments with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, both of whom, like Harris, tend to be coolly logical most of the time.

As I said, the campaign tweet, and that t-shirt, completely undermined her emotional message.

I think it would have been much smarter of her and her campaign NOT to tweet that photo, or do the t-shirt.

Hell, I'd have been much more impressed if she'd made her points in a very coolly logical manner, rather than with emotion that was rehearsed.

As a feminist, I dislike it when women who can make logical arguments instead deliver a "you hurt me" speech in a hyperemotional voice and it turns out to have been rehearsed and staged.

So I was very disappointed, after having been very impressed by Harris earlier.

I'd give her an A for an acting, and a C- or D+ for sincerity.

And that's one hell of a letdown when she had been one of my favorites.

I haven't completely given up on her yet. But it will be a while before I can listen to her without a certain amount of skepticism.