It was obviously a somber moment after the July 4 parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois that that left seven dead and injured more than two dozen.
Vice President Kamala
Harris was scheduled to make an appearance. Her task was simple but important,
she had to pay tributes to the victims, commiserate with relatives of the
victims and stand by the survivors.
The good news is
there were no ill-timed laughs as Harris spoke at the Chicago suburb.
Harris began by
promising Highland Park residents that the shooter will be
brought to justice.
But matters rapidly
deteriorated when said the following:
“….we’ll deal with
what we need to deal with in terms of also, as we move forward, all agreeing
that we’ve got to be smarter as a country in terms of who has access to what
and, in particular, assault weapons. And we got to take this stuff
seriously, as seriously as you are — because you have been forced to have to
take it seriously. “
https://twitter.com/JakeSheridan_/status/1544479335008051200
This is indefensible
for its content, the choice of words, and the way it was delivered.
Harris attempted to
politicize the somber occasion by calling for restrictions on assault weapons.
Does Harris not know
that the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition
are heavily regulated in the state of Illinois? To legally possess firearms or
ammunition, Illinois residents must have a Firearm
Owners Identification (FOID) card. Illinois also has a red flag law
that allows confiscation of guns on mere suspicions. Most importantly, since
2013, the possession of assault weapons was designated illegal in Highland
Park.
Now to the “take this
stuff seriously” portion of her address. The word ‘stuff’ is used in casual and
informal situations and emphatically not while attempting to heal the wounds of
a community that has just experienced dastardly violence. The repetition that
rendered the sentence meaningless is inconsiderate given the graveness of the
circumstances.
Nobody would have
grudged Harris if she had carried a note to refer to while she made her
remarks. It was essential she got every syllable of her address right the very
first time. Words matter greatly, especially after a tragedy such as the
shooting in Highland Park.
As always her tone
was casual, which is disrespectful considering the occasion and her body
language with the excessive hand gestures seemed out of synch with her words.
This is recent in a
series of ignominious verbal mishaps from Kamala Harris
A few weeks back,
Harris blundered during yesterday’s Juneteenth holiday while addressing school
children. It has been 400 years since slavery in America, but Harris claimed it
has been 400 years of slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHgelx0ocyk
Back in May, she was
at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit attempting to
expound on the importance of teamwork.
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1525656051210760192
In March,
Harris was involved in another verbal catastrophe while meeting with
the Jamaican Prime Minister.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1509341764104118272
Also in March, at the
Munich Security Conference, Harris struggled to explain the crisis in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1495426769666510848
Also in March,
during a joint presser in Warsaw alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda,
Harris incongruously erupted into laughter when asked about the US’s plans to
accept Ukrainian refugees.
Back in January, on
NBC News, Harris rambled when asked about Biden’s failing strategy to combat
COVID-19
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1481626312041246721
Last October, Harris
ruined a pre-recorded NASA video aimed at promoting science among young
children.
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1446626047332687873
What explains these frequent gaffes?
Knowing her lack of
talent in the speechmaking department, either Harris herself or her advisers
should always insist she reads from notes. She would sound dreary reading from
a text which is better than a verbal disaster from her attempts to ad-lib. But
she neither carries notes nor does she prepare before her remarks.
It isn’t only her
lack of oratorical talent but also the lack of effort that is troubling. She
presumably has access best subject matter experts and speech coaches yet she
chose to wing it and speak extemporaneously. It proves the cavalier attitude
toward her office, her role, her legacy, and above all the reputation of her
country.
Harris’s utterances
make Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s perpetually floundering Vice President in the
political satire Veep look
like an adept wordsmith and a capable politician.
The only department
she fares worse than speaking is implementation and delivery.
When Biden assigned her the important task of resolving the border crisis. Harris began by showing reluctance to accept her assignment. She took ages to act or even visit the border.
When asked by NBC News's Lester Holt, Harris had no reply when asked why she hasn’t visited the US-Mexico border
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1402246354374643714
She did visit the border only because President Trump had announced his visit. When she did go to Guatemala and Mexico, instead of working with those governments to stop the uncontrolled influx, she indulged in a theoretical exercise of discovering the "root causes" of illegal immigration. Does she not know people migrate to the US simply for a better quality of life?
From this, we come to
the reason why she was chosen as Biden's running mate.
Somebody in Biden’s
team was aware of Harris’s incompetence and inarticulateness much before the
world knew. They knew she would make Biden, despite his rapidly declining
cognitive abilities, look relatively smarter.
They chose her
knowing that the liberal ecosystem would fawn over the fact that she is female
and has pigment under her skin which makes her the ‘first’ among her
demographic group to hold such a high office.
In the end, Biden's
handlers have accomplished what they intended to, the inarticulate and
ineffectual Kamala has made senile and bungling Biden unimpeachable.
It is an astute but deeply
cynical ploy with a focus on power rather than the well-being of the nation.
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