Kamala Harris is the real deal and she comes with a bonus: it’s impossible to frown if she’s smiling. She’s an All-American woman, wearing power suits and stiletto heels for work and sneakers for play. She is a Baptist married to a Jew. She knows the work of Martin Luther King and the Black Church in the U.S., as well as the religion of her mother’s native India. She is the first Asian-American and first African-American vice president.
She is the right woman for our time and she simply rocks.
Her nemesis, Donald Trump, who sells Bibles he’s never read and, along with his deputy crackpots, harangues about “Christian values,” does not go to church. Apparently he acknowledges the Divine by looking in the mirror.
His wacky running mate spends a lot of time talking about what’s wrong with women, recently focusing on single women who have cats but don’t have children. Why would he possibly care? Could the common, but not universal, human desire to have a loving partner become a requirement for public office? Should you pay a penalty tax if you’re single? Should you lose the right to run for office if you’re divorced? Think about it. So far it’s only conservative Republican presidents who have been divorced, although Democrats don’t want to be reminded of Bill Clinton’s extramarital episodes …)
Hilary Clinton was clearly unprepared for Trump’s crude behavior in their pre-election debate when he cruised the stage and harassed her with junior-high-school pranks. I would love to see him try that with Kamala. In fact, I can hardly wait! If he does debate her, Trump will never know what hit him. In the words of Muhammed Ali, “I pity the fool!”
In the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York became the first woman to be listed as a presidential candidate in every primary and caucus nationwide. Despite losing the nomination in a close race against Barack Obama, Clinton won more votes in 2008 than any female primary candidate in American history. So why have primaries?
She was finally nominated at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, became the first woman to participate in a presidential debate, and later the first to carry a state in a general election. But despite losing the election, she became the first woman to win the popular vote, receiving nearly 66 million votes to Donald Trump’s 63 million. But she was robbed by the Electoral College. Clearly our nonsensical Electoral College must end. It’s simply un-American.
Eighteen women have run for President of the United States, including Democrats Geraldine Ferraro and Hilary Clinton, and Republican Margaret Chase Smith. In 1972, Shirley Chisholm, a hero of mine, became the first black and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination. I shared a long cab ride with Ms. Chisholm once. I picked her up at the airport when she was a speaker at a convention of my husband’s company. I wanted to talk about politics, but she talked about regretting that she had not had children.
I do not see Kamala Harris losing. But I do worry about her walking down stairs in her trademark pantsuits with flared legs, wearing those stiletto heels.
By the way, stiletto heels are named after a knife.