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

[RHMerriman]

354. Are you really arguing that supporting federally-ordered mandatory busing of public school children

Are you really arguing that supporting federally-ordered mandatory busing of public school children from middle-income neighborhood schools to poor neighborhood schools at significant distances from the neighborhoods where the middle income kids live is a winning move for the Democratic presidential candidate in 2019 against an incumbent Republican?

Because if you are, self-righteousness aside, get used to four more years of the Trump Administration. Yay...

Sen. Harris and I are the same age; she grew up the biracial child of two University of California Phds. I grew up the biracial child of a Central Valley farmhand and a sales clerk who together - barely - had two high school diplomas between them.

As a Californian who voted FOR her for attorney general AND US Senate, her strategy here is self-defeating and, frankly, pretty damn insulting.