Post by the Scribe on Aug 13, 2020 7:59:13 GMT
Kamala Harris Showed Swagger, and It Will Drive Republican Men Nuts
www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-showed-swagger-and-it-will-drive-republican-men-nuts?ref=scroll
OPENING DAY HOME RUN
The case Harris constructed against Trump on the virus was just pulverizing. An American is dying every 80 seconds on his watch.
Michael Tomasky
Special Correspondent
Updated Aug. 12, 2020 6:50PM ET Published Aug. 12, 2020 6:47PM ET
OPINION
Drew Angerer
Well—she was great.
Kamala Harris has swagger. That’s going to drive right-wing men nuts. They’re just not going to know what to do about that. She was so confident in her first remarks as the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate. The delivery, the timing. The body language: She bounced from foot to foot, raised her index finger every couple minutes, looked this way, looked that way, smiled here, furrowed her brow there. She was mesmerizing to watch.
And the words—this was a really well-written speech. Not long—barely 20 minutes, if that. But it flowed seamlessly from this section to that. There were five sections in all: first, a little intro section sounding the basic themes about this historical moment of pandemic and economic collapse and a moment of reckoning about systemic racism; second, some lovely stuff that was new to me about her friendship with Beau (“Beau and I spoke on the phone practically every day, sometimes several times a day, working together” to help underwater families keep their homes) and a nice little tribute to the way Joe cared for his boys after his wife and daughter died; third, an autobiographical section with some very nice stuff about her husband and kids and her parents, which will drive the wingnuts crazy because her parents met marching for civil rights and took baby Kamala on some protest marches; fourth, the case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence, which was brutal; and fifth, the Biden-Harris agenda—an energy revolution, health care, choice, voting rights, the economy.
www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-showed-swagger-and-it-will-drive-republican-men-nuts?ref=scroll
OPENING DAY HOME RUN
The case Harris constructed against Trump on the virus was just pulverizing. An American is dying every 80 seconds on his watch.
Michael Tomasky
Special Correspondent
Updated Aug. 12, 2020 6:50PM ET Published Aug. 12, 2020 6:47PM ET
OPINION
Drew Angerer
Well—she was great.
Kamala Harris has swagger. That’s going to drive right-wing men nuts. They’re just not going to know what to do about that. She was so confident in her first remarks as the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate. The delivery, the timing. The body language: She bounced from foot to foot, raised her index finger every couple minutes, looked this way, looked that way, smiled here, furrowed her brow there. She was mesmerizing to watch.
And the words—this was a really well-written speech. Not long—barely 20 minutes, if that. But it flowed seamlessly from this section to that. There were five sections in all: first, a little intro section sounding the basic themes about this historical moment of pandemic and economic collapse and a moment of reckoning about systemic racism; second, some lovely stuff that was new to me about her friendship with Beau (“Beau and I spoke on the phone practically every day, sometimes several times a day, working together” to help underwater families keep their homes) and a nice little tribute to the way Joe cared for his boys after his wife and daughter died; third, an autobiographical section with some very nice stuff about her husband and kids and her parents, which will drive the wingnuts crazy because her parents met marching for civil rights and took baby Kamala on some protest marches; fourth, the case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence, which was brutal; and fifth, the Biden-Harris agenda—an energy revolution, health care, choice, voting rights, the economy.