Yes. I thought he was an empty suit with a charismatic smile. I did not vote for him in 2008, but I did vote for him in 2012 because he was a quick study, and the alternative was worse.
Every one in California (just about) is against the death penalty. Have been for years.
Kamala Harris lied to us. She told California voters that she would basically be the next Barbara Boxer, who would spend decades fighting for what Californians wanted and believed in. Instead, she was another Obama, an empty suit with a charismatic smile, who made us all like him immensely, but who was a weak, ineffective president. I will vote for anyone who runs against Trump. However, if Harris doesn't secure the DNC nomination, I will not vote for her Senate reelection in 2022. She, like Obama, is filled with personal ambition, not a desire to represent her state and her voters and will not, in my opinion, strengthen the American leadership throughout the world. If I'm wrong, I will say so; but at this time, I view her as a dishonest person filled with her own personal ambition and agenda, who has tossed California into the trash in order to follow the political agenda she has been practicing for the past decade.
If she gets the DNC nomination, I will vote for her against Trump, and I will pray that she is a stronger, more powerful, more intelligent and more strategically forceful leader than Obama was, despite the fact that I personally liked him as an individual and believe that he raised our global status with our allies throughout the world.
I am tired of being manipulated by those who promise us one thing, then immediately discard those promises to pursue their own political agendas. Kamala Harris is one of those. I feel betrayed and will vote accordingly.
I beg to differ. Obama is no empty suit. Obama brought me healthcare, the first president in my 67 years who did that. Darn good thing he saw an opening and grabbed it.
Look, if an individual doesn't have blind ambition, he or she has no business running for president. And "blind" is a misnomer.
It's a burning drive,
a burning desire. TAke my ability to play jazz guitar and piano. I started at an early age, and if it weren't for a burning desire, I would have never continued on a journey that I knew would take years, it was a burning desire that made me continue to practice, despite the fact I knew how long and difficult that journey would be.
You should be thankful some individuals have it.
The point is, I don't knock someone for having a burning desire to be president. Harris is well situated to run, and if she has the qualities it takes to beat Trump, it is her moral imperative to do that. If time proves she isn't going to be the nominee, then so be it. but I'm not going to fault her for running for prez so quickly into her Senate term. Obama did, and I'm glad he did. Harris could be the next Obama, for all we know.
Let's see what she can do. We can replace Harris in the Senate, but people who can be president, win the presidency, those are rarer birds.
Dishonesty? Really? compared to the over 8000 lies the current president master hypester has dished onto the American populace, and you are worried about politicians who dish out a modicum of hype?
IF you are looking for someone who will pass muster in Sunday School, you are looking for someone who will not be president,
not this day and age.
But, if she is the nominee, you said you'd vote for her because a vote for anyone else is a vote for Trump. Thank you. Thats' really all I need to know.
If more dems who didn't like Hillary who threw away their votes, had they held their nose and voted for her, Trump would not be president, because he only won by 80,000 votes.
