Stephen A Smith Rants about Kamala Hiding from the Press

[Mach]

Maybe not...but they should. He's making a reasonable demand of someone who wants to be elected...not coronated.

He's in no position to demand a thing. If she believes her best path to defeating Trump is to give few interviews, I 100% support that.
I have the DNC platform, I know who she is from being VP, she's been vetted by being elected to Attorney General, VP, and she can pass a security clearance.
She's not a felon, she didn't sell America out to the highest bidder, she didn't put her kids in the White House, she didn't have people send to the capitol as part of her effort to steal the 2020 election through the criminal fake elector scheme.

She's who you should be championing, and voting for, let's be honest you and I.

 

[NuffSaid]

Maybe not...but they should. He's making a reasonable demand of someone who wants to be elected...not coronated.

Ah, now MAGA thinks celebrity opinions are cool.

 

[DrewPaul]

He's in no position to demand a thing.

He, like I is a United States citizen who is being asked by Kamala Harris to give her the highest governmental position in the United States. She is asking us to elect her to be the commander and chief of the most powerful country in the world. She is asking to be the world leader and spokesperson for the United States. We are all in a position to demand she be accountable for what she's done, for the polices she's enacted with Biden. Literally by refusing to grant an interview or a press conference she is giving a finger to the very people she is asking to vote for her. Through the press is they only way we the people can make our leaders give an account for the kind of questions we have. We now all know we've had an administration that did all it could to hide and deny Biden's cognition and fitness for office. Now they're keeping the new candidate tightly under wraps.

If she believes her best path to defeating Trump is to give few interviews, I 100% support that.

That makes sense...but what does it say about her? Why would giving interviews hurt her chances? Could it be because often when she speaks she laughs or giggles inappropriately or launches into an incomprehensible word salad? Or says something snarky like I've never been to Europe either, when asked about the border. Shouldn't we be assured that she is smart enough to respond intelligently to questions we the people have about what's been done in the Biden-Harris administration and what she plans in the future? Do we have any assurance she can handle speaking to other world leaders without the benefit of a script? Have you watched videos of her speaking extemporaneously? Its quite astonishing.

She's who you should be championing, and voting for, let's be honest you and I.

Maybe I can put down the southern border as an accomplishment on her resume. She was the border czar you know.

 

[DrewPaul]

When her poll numbers drop because of this issue she'll be backed in a corner. I predict before too long she'll at least grant softball interviews with people in the tank for her. She'd be a fool to wait until the debate.

 

[brianpatrick]

Why do you think she refuses to do so? She posed for Time magazine (and had time to do so) but no interview.

There are two reasons. The first is she isn't very good at speaking extemporaneously. This is due to lack of preparation or inability to actually understand her own arguments.

Secondly there are many questions for which there are no good answers. Just asking why she's changed (actually reversed) several of her positions will cause her head to spin even if she's practiced whatever ridiculous answer she has. How will she respond when they point out her positions NOW are much closer to Trumps? They'll ask where did she get the idea for no tax on tips? At some point she is going to have to give an account for when she realized Biden (who she faithfully supported right up to the end) was unfit to be president for another term? If she says we were clueless about his condition until we saw it after the debate....they should have a loud buzzer with them if she gives that answer. That alone would disqualify her from being president. If she says she knew something was off a year ago then they'll have the unmitigated gall to ask why she continued to support someone she knew was mentally unfit?



It certainly would which is exactly why they're keeping her under wraps...they have lots of practice at this.

When the only people crying for press conferences are your political opposition and a couple of media hawks with financial interests in the proposition, I don’t see why you would indulge them. Maybe you should worry about Tic-Tac’s. Have you seen how small they’ve made the packages now?!

 

[DrewPaul]

When the only people crying for press conferences are your political opposition and a couple of media hawks with financial interests in the proposition, I don’t see why you would indulge them. Maybe you should worry about Tic-Tac’s. Have you seen how small they’ve made the packages now?!

Didn't Biden first bring this issue up?

 

[multivita-man]

Maybe not...but they should. He's making a reasonable demand of someone who wants to be elected...not coronated.

Maybe she's tired of the media treating the other guy like he's normal and figures that since fewer and fewer people get their news from mainstream channels anymore, sit-down interviews have kind of lost their value.

 

[brianpatrick]

Didn't Biden first bring this issue up?

Nope

 

[jpevans]

Good grief JP she's been VP for nearly four years that's not enough time to know her positions? Given Biden's condition she could be president anytime.

People who attend her rallies do get a good look at her policy positions. She’s VP, so not in the news day in, day out. You’ll just have to wait or watch a rally.

 

[jpevans]

He, like I is a United States citizen who is being asked by Kamala Harris to give her the highest governmental position in the United States. She is asking us to elect her to be the commander and chief of the most powerful country in the world. She is asking to be the world leader and spokesperson for the United States. We are all in a position to demand she be accountable for what she's done, for the polices she's enacted with Biden. Literally by refusing to grant an interview or a press conference she is giving a finger to the very people she is asking to vote for her. Through the press is they only way we the people can make our leaders give an account for the kind of questions we have. We now all know we've had an administration that did all it could to hide and deny Biden's cognition and fitness for office. Now they're keeping the new candidate tightly under wraps.



That makes sense...but what does it say about her? Why would giving interviews hurt her chances? Could it be because often when she speaks she laughs or giggles inappropriately or launches into an incomprehensible word salad? Or says something snarky like I've never been to Europe either, when asked about the border. Shouldn't we be assured that she is smart enough to respond intelligently to questions we the people have about what's been done in the Biden-Harris administration and what she plans in the future? Do we have any assurance she can handle speaking to other world leaders without the benefit of a script? Have you watched videos of her speaking extemporaneously? Its quite astonishing.


Maybe I can put down the southern border as an accomplishment on her resume. She was the border czar you know.

You seem to have set a higher bar for VP Harris than you do for Donold the Convict. He rarely matches his answer with the questions asked. So buckle up & wait or watch a complete rally.

 

[DrewPaul]

You seem to have set a higher bar for VP Harris than you do for Donold the Convict. He rarely matches his answer with the questions asked. So buckle up & wait or watch a complete rally.

I'll buckle up for the debate...

 

[DrewPaul]

People who attend her rallies do get a good look at her policy positions. She’s VP, so not in the news day in, day out. You’ll just have to wait or watch a rally.

At a rally she can pontificate all she wants. That's not remotely the same as giving a response to hard questions. Like when did you first realize Biden wouldn't be fit to run for office for another three years? Did you advise Biden drop out? When did you come to decide to reverse your positions on several issues that are more in line with Trumps positions? Where did you get the idea of no tax on tips? You know the Trump campaign ran on that in June. Are you beginning to see the wisdom of right wing answers to these problems? Only a Fox News agent would ask those questions.

JP I assume you want Kamala to win. If she waits until the debates to finally be forced to answer questions on the highest stage she has ever been on, it could be disaster. She doesn't get the ultra low expectations Biden got. We assume she's not suffering from old age or dementia. She goes into one incomprehensible word salad and everyone is going to say its Biden all over again. Only she doesn't have Biden's excuse. You don't seem to understand why Stephen Smith is so animated about her hiding. A person running for president has to be available to the press...them's the rules.

 

[Phys251]

At a rally she can pontificate all she wants. That's not remotely the same as giving a response to hard questions. Like when did you first realize Biden wouldn't be fit to run for office for another three years? Did you advise Biden drop out? When did you come to decide to reverse your positions on several issues that are more in line with Trumps positions? Where did you get the idea of no tax on tips? You know the Trump campaign ran on that in June. Are you beginning to see the wisdom of right wing answers to these problems? Only a Fox News agent would ask those questions.

JP I assume you want Kamala to win. If she waits until the debates to finally be forced to answer questions on the highest stage she has ever been on, it could be disaster. She doesn't get the ultra low expectations Biden got. We assume she's not suffering from old age or dementia. She goes into one incomprehensible word salad and everyone is going to say its Biden all over again. Only she doesn't have Biden's excuse. You don't seem to understand why Stephen Smith is so animated about her hiding. A person running for president has to be available to the press...them's the rules.

You seem even more upset by this than I thought you were.

 

[brianpatrick]

I'll buckle up for the debate...

I’d recommend air-bags for MAGAt’s.

 

[Linc]

At a rally she can pontificate all she wants.

which trump does at his ‘pressers’

That's not remotely the same as giving a response to hard questions.

which trump never receives

JP I assume you want Kamala to win. If she waits until the debates to finally be forced to answer questions on the highest stage she has ever been on,

Harris, not the misogynistic Kamala, has a real job.

it could be disaster. She doesn't get the ultra low expectations Biden got. We assume she's not suffering from old age or dementia. She goes into one incomprehensible word salad and everyone is going to say its Biden all over again. Only she doesn't have Biden's excuse. You don't seem to understand why Stephen Smith is so animated about her hiding. A person running for president has to be available to the press...them's the rules.

you and Smith are the last two she should bow to;
Why do you support trump saying he ‘deserves’ to go personal?
Your nicknames won’t work this time.

 

[brianpatrick]

which trump does at his ‘pressers’

which trump never receives

Harris, not the misogynistic Kamala, has a real job.

you and Smith are the last two she should bow to;
Why do you support trump saying he ‘deserves’ to go personal?
Your nicknames won’t work this time.

They are floating “Kamunism” now

****ing idiotic fifth graders. Dunning-Krueger, man.

 

[jpevans]

At a rally she can pontificate all she wants. That's not remotely the same as giving a response to hard questions. Like when did you first realize Biden wouldn't be fit to run for office for another three years? Did you advise Biden drop out? When did you come to decide to reverse your positions on several issues that are more in line with Trumps positions? Where did you get the idea of no tax on tips? You know the Trump campaign ran on that in June. Are you beginning to see the wisdom of right wing answers to these problems? Only a Fox News agent would ask those questions.

JP I assume you want Kamala to win. If she waits until the debates to finally be forced to answer questions on the highest stage she has ever been on, it could be disaster. She doesn't get the ultra low expectations Biden got. We assume she's not suffering from old age or dementia. She goes into one incomprehensible word salad and everyone is going to say its Biden all over again. Only she doesn't have Biden's excuse. You don't seem to understand why Stephen Smith is so animated about her hiding. A person running for president has to be available to the press...them's the rules.

Well when that reporter go a couple questions answered, she said toward the end of the month. It’s getting closer to the end of the month every day.
I realize that didn’t equal an interview, but she did take a couple of questions. Don’t you realize that an interview isn’t going to do anything except show how effen lame the Drumpf’s interview’s were. The Drumpf failed bigly with all but the pure at heart MAGA…

 

[Mach]

That makes sense...but what does it say about her? Why would giving interviews hurt her chances? Could it be because often when she speaks she laughs or giggles inappropriately or launches into an incomprehensible word salad? Or says something snarky like I've never been to Europe either, when asked about the border. Shouldn't we be assured that she is smart enough to respond intelligently to questions we the people have about what's been done in the Biden-Harris administration and what she plans in the future? Do we have any assurance she can handle speaking to other world leaders without the benefit of a script? Have you watched videos of her speaking extemporaneously? Its quite astonishing.
Maybe I can put down the southern border as an accomplishment on her resume. She was the border czar you know.

Based on your reaction, I suppose it it's says she's got wisdom.

Why is serving 24 years in the national guard, perpetrated by the moral-majority of the right wing, considered a blight on humanity and a terror for the nation?
Why was John Kerry fighting in Vietnam, such a terrible thing to people like the guy currently attacking Walz, the same guy that attacked John Kerry, that it has traction with right wing voters who claim, without evidence, they support the military?
Trump hired the guy, because the right wing is trash, and can't win on the issues. But you want to hear the issues? Surely you jest.

You are putting on this act right now, that truth, reason, good word, will carry the day for Republican voters.

You write that on the backdrop of Trump having been POTUS, 4 years of defending Trump, and now putting this felon back up for re-election. The guy that put his ****ING KIDS in front of world leaders doing official U.S. business.
They failed security clearance checks FOR ****S SAKE. We could fill the thread with his misdeeds and mishandling of foreign relations. But you're so concerned about the current VP of the united states being unable to talk to foreign leaders?

You aren't serious.

She should give us just enough to voter for her, give those rat ****s nothing more.

She's not being elected to be a 24/7 reality TV star that bullshits all day, every day like Trump. At least that's not why people will vote for her...

 

[Mach]

Do we have any assurance she can handle speaking to other world leaders without the benefit of a script? Have you watched videos of her speaking extemporaneously? Its quite astonishing.

The only answer must be that you were in a coma for the past 8 years. No worries, we have the internet and videos you can catch up on.

Trump:
"I told him, 'don't do it. You cant do it, Vladimir," he says he told him. "He said 'no way', and I said 'way'," says Trump.
(coordinated interview with his big campaign donor and fellow project 2025 and Epstein island travel buddy, Elon Musk..richest guys really looking out for the middle class)

Trump backed Putin on the world stage over U.S. intelligence in Helsinki. I was sure you guys would take him down after that, alas, it was just the beginning wasn't it?

Gets his foreign policy advice from "shows": “Well I really watch the shows. You really see a lot of great, you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows, and you have the generals and you have certain people that you like,” Trump said. “Probably there are two or three. Yeah, probably there are two or three I mean, I like [former U.N. Ambassador John] Bolton. I think he’s, you know, tough cookie, knows what he’s talking about

John Bolton goes on to say in his memoir that Trump is unfit to be president. That's Trump's own conservative Republican administration official, and apparently foreign affairs "TV advice guy".
lists 10 reasons Trump is unfit
Bolton also claims Trump tried to get Chinese help in the election, offered personal favors to dictators, wanted to serve more than two terms, was close to quitting NATO, thought invading Venezuela would be "cool".

Maybe Mike Pompeo, another big Trump official? "Trump is "full of shit".
Bill Bar after serving Trump: "Trump shouldn't be near the Oval office"
His current VP pick, JD Vance: Trump's like Hitler. I'm a "never Trump guy".
of Trump "My god, what an idiot"

Mexico will pay for the wall.
****ing up communication on the Iran deal.

Extorting the president of Ukraine for help in the election.
He was impeached and embarrassed to the world for that one.

We could fill the forums with this stuff. I see you missed it all, I'll have to find more for you.

I mean, Trump did everything you could possibly have imagined bad, and more, documented, and even backed by literally his own foreign affairs advisors.

And here you are putting on a phony show of wringing your hands about Harris, who has only been nominated 3 weeks ago, doesn't have softball, ass grabbing interviews like Elon and Trump, that were full of rambling bullshit?
Like I said, you aren't' serious.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-foreign-policy-gaffes-2016-213345

John Bolton: Ten biggest claims in his Donald Trump book

The White House tried to stop its release, but a judge has rejected its bid with extracts already published.

www.bbc.com

 

[iguanaman]

No comment on the video?

He is not her campaign managers. It is up to them to decide what is the best path to victory and the polls don't lie. Do you actually believe that Trump's "emergency press conferences" are helping him?

 

[Mach]

it be because often when she speaks she laughs or giggles inappropriately or launches into an incomprehensible word salad? Or says something snarky like I've never been to Europe either, when asked about the border. Shouldn't we be assured that she is smart enough to respond intelligently to questions we the people have about what's been done in the Biden-Harris administration and what she plans in the future? Do we have any assurance she can handle speaking to other world leaders without the benefit of a script? Have you watched videos of her speaking extemporaneously? Its quite astonishing

Even your worst fears, while not justified, aren't as bad as Trump...and the contest is in fact, between Harris and Trump.

Some gems that you must not have seen:

Covid pandemic hammers the world, Trump's weekly pressers were bullshit, stupidity, and nonsense...you felt he did good communicating on those important, complex issues?

John Bolton: Ten biggest claims in his Donald Trump book

The White House tried to stop its release, but a judge has rejected its bid with extracts already published.

www.bbc.com

Trump choosing Putin over the U.S. (Russia first agenda)


The United Nations laughs at him on the world stage:

Watch: Trump's boast draws laughter at United Nations

President Donald Trump is highlighted U.S. gains under his watch as he opened his address to the U.N. General Assembly — and provoked a laugh.

www.pbs.org

There is so much DrewPaul. All your fears will be smoothed over if you watch what Trump actually did, in his own words, and in the words of Republicans he chose to have work with him.

I think Barr and Pompeo, Bolton and actual video of Trump, is a much better source than some random sports rabble rouser looking for views by being proactive.

Don't you think?

 

[Mach]

****ing guy wanted us out of NATO. But you're worried about snarky laughing.

God damn man, your posts are so outrageous.

 

[DrewPaul]

I think Barr and Pompeo, Bolton and actual video of Trump, is a much better source than some random sports rabble rouser looking for views by being proactive.

Don't you think?

I've seen Trump including the UN speech you referenced. The following sentence he spoke got a genuine laugh from his quip, but the left always skips that.

You bring up a good point, Trump has been there and has negotiated with world leaders. He's made deals with foreign nations that were favorable to the US. I can tell you other world leaders saw Trump nearly get his head blown off on public TV and still get up off of his ass, bleeding and yelling fight, fight fight. You think it means nothing because you hate all things Trump. It means something to our allies and our enemies. It meant something to me. That all the talk from the left of Trump being in this for himself, being a coward who'd cut and run at the first sign of any trouble or danger to himself was just smelly ass bullshit.

 

[Mach]

I've seen Trump including the UN speech you referenced.

So you believe his putting Jared (and Ivanka) in his administration handling classified material when they failed the routine security clearance...sending them to discuss in some cases, important matters with foreign leaders, was appropriate?

Jared...Kushner? A foreign front facing position in the U.S. government at the request of Trump?
Really?

You believe Trump was appropriate in backing Putin on the world stage in Helsinki? His cozying up to Putin, his private meetings with Putin where other U.S. officials were not allowed in...just routine and good for the nation eh?

His extortion of Ukraine in an effort to get their help in the 2020 election, you think that was good for the nation?

Please.

Trump's own Republican conservative administration officials tell you he's a moron that should nowhere near the Oval office.

Losers and suckers.

 

[DrewPaul]

So you believe his putting Jared (and Ivanka) in his administration handling classified material when they failed the routine security clearance...sending them to discuss in some cases, important matters with foreign leaders, was appropriate

You're not responding to what I wrote you're just regurgitating your favorite hate of Trump rants I've heard a thousand times. Despite that I trust the presidency to Trump over Kamala who I think is fairly clueless. Sorry you didn't make a believer of me.