Vote for Kamala Harris she would be a great president
Just because she’s black and a woman doesn’t mean she can’t do it
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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
She has spent so much time in the background it is really hard to get a sense of how competent she is. From previous debates she seems to be a strong willed and intelligent woman who is not addled by age.
But if she gets the top spot she will have a burden no previous POTUS had. She will be the model for a woman in the top seat.
That can go well or very bad even if it is totally outside their power.
Kim Campbell got the top job in Canada in 1991 or 1992. She inherited a sinking ship and she got blamed for the mess that she was left holding the bag for.
30 years later no woman has ever gotten elected to PM and it is still used in some circles as an excuse to discriminate.
But if she gets the top spot she will have a burden no previous POTUS had. She will be the model for a woman in the top seat.
That can go well or very bad even if it is totally outside their power.
Kim Campbell got the top job in Canada in 1991 or 1992. She inherited a sinking ship and she got blamed for the mess that she was left holding the bag for.
30 years later no woman has ever gotten elected to PM and it is still used in some circles as an excuse to discriminate.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow
Only true as far as the national stage is concerned. Three years in the U.S. Senate -- where seniority is required to get much done --- and four years as VP -- where there is little to do -- is not an opportunity to prove anything.
But she was a prosecutor in my city, then moved to San Francisco to become District of Attorney, and then on to become Attorney General. She very much as a track record of getting things done in that period, including significantly increasing the prosecution of the murder case backlog from her ineffective prior incumbent in S.F. and being among the State Attorney Generals to begin going after the predator student loan organizations and for-profit training programs that were ripping off both their students and the Federal student loan program.
She has spent so much time in the background it is really hard to get a sense of how competent she is.
Only true as far as the national stage is concerned. Three years in the U.S. Senate -- where seniority is required to get much done --- and four years as VP -- where there is little to do -- is not an opportunity to prove anything.
But she was a prosecutor in my city, then moved to San Francisco to become District of Attorney, and then on to become Attorney General. She very much as a track record of getting things done in that period, including significantly increasing the prosecution of the murder case backlog from her ineffective prior incumbent in S.F. and being among the State Attorney Generals to begin going after the predator student loan organizations and for-profit training programs that were ripping off both their students and the Federal student loan program.
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@dancingtongue That seems reasonable and makes sense. One thing that might be a major difference is I am not sure if at the state level she would have had the same level of experience with getting shit done through the mountain of bureaucracy at the federal level.