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FLASHBACK, September, 2004: “The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there’s going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.” https://instapundit.com/666650/ That’s what’s happening with Kamala now. But it didn’t last before.

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Just when I thought that you couldn't appear any more gullible.

The crux of the matter is not whether Walz is a combat veteran. That is irrelevant. Most of the people who served in the military since 9/11 are not combat veterans. Along the way, the Harris-Walz campaign has walked back Walz's biography and claims. Another thing has become obvious. Whenever anyone who served with Vance is asked about his service, they are very complimentary. The former Marines who served with Vance liked him and still like him even though their politics differ; see A Tale of Two Veterans: What the Service of Walz and Vance Tells Us About the Men. His former battalion commander put to rest the "he's not a combat veteran" slur The opposite is true of Walz. His military record was examined because two of his peers blew the whistle on his self-serving cowardice. When the brigade sergeant major, Walz's superior in the Noncommissioned Officer support channel, was interviewed, CNN abruptly terminated the damning testimony https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/08/11/tim-walzs-national-guard-unit-chaplain-puts-the-retirement-controversy-to-rest-with-just-one-word-n2177987

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WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE WASHINGTON POST…: Questions we’d love to ask Kamala Harris. If she hopes to prevail, Ms. Harris needs to present her ideas. The media and public have legitimate questions, and she should face them. This is a political necessity — Mr. Trump is already turning her avoidance of the media into an attack line. And elections aren’t just about winning. They’re about accumulating political capital for a particular agenda, which Ms. Harris can’t do unless she articulates one. What’s more, Ms. Harris might find her best hope of persuading voters is not to reinforce familiar negative information about Mr. Trump, even if it’s repackaged as an attack on his, and his party’s, “weirdness.” Rather, a new survey published in Matt Yglesias’s newsletter by political scientists David Broockman of the University of California at Berkeley and Josh Kalla of Yale, who study political messaging, suggests that her best bet would be to provide the public new, positive information about herself — and her agenda. … Without hearing Ms. Harris articulate her thought process, she runs the risk of leaving voters to wonder whether she is just shifting with the political winds, or, indeed, planning to revert to previous positions after she’s won the presidency. Why, for instance, did she embrace Mr. Trump’s idea to exempt tips from taxation? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/11/kamala-harris-questions-press-conference/ Would the Washington Post actually ask their questions, even on the off chance Harris deigned to sit for a real interview?

Our Three Silent Mice August 12, 2024 Victor Davis Hanson (He writes about each one individually and then concludes with this.) Add it all up, and the president, the vice president, the Democratic presidential candidate, and the vice presidential nominee all either cannot or will not speak casually and publicly to elected representatives, reporters, or the people themselves. Worse still, they retire from their responsibilities of public engagement because these selected officials accept that the alternative of transparency is nearly suicidal to their own agendas. No one is now in charge of America—neither the ghosted president nor the campaigning vice president candidate who both act as if they hold no office. It gets far worse still. Joe Biden was created by a soft coup of sorts in March 2000 when all his unpalatable left-wing radical rivals mysteriously vanished in unison at a time when an inert “centrist” Biden had not yet won a single primary. Then Biden was dethroned abruptly 38 months later by the same inside plotters who deemed his sock puppet role was no longer viable—but only after their sure loser in November had become more a liability to the left than any longer a useful, empty vessel of governance. But as for his fitness as a man of the left to continue ruling us, he was just fine. It continues to get even worse. Then the same donors, the same politicos, and the same obsequious media grandees pivoted yet a third time. On the morning of June 27, a fit-as-a-fiddle Biden needed not to step down both because of his brilliance and dynamism—and the unthinkable succession of the Harris mediocrity. By late night June 27, it was decided that a now suddenly enfeebled and unelectable Biden could be forcibly removed. Harris was Phoenix-like just as quickly reborn as the second coming of Obama—glib, in control, cool, and competent. We are now witnessing yet a fourth coup from the party that warns us that democracy dies in darkness. They have removed their once robust now demented nominee, nullified 14 million primary voters, repackaged and selected Harris in his place who has never won a single primary—and now plan to continue in power for another four years by silencing the outgoing president, secluding the vice president and muting the Democratic ticket itself. In sum, leftists endlessly conspire not only because they have little confidence in the people, but because they have absolutely none in themselves. https://victorhanson.com/our-three-silent-mice/

The only thing on President Joe Biden's schedule today, aside from his private Daily Brief, is returning to the White House from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will give a press briefing in the early afternoon. https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/08/12/monday-morning-minute-n2178006

Report: President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, the Clintons to Speak at Democratic National Convention by Amy Furr Democrat figures including President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will reportedly be speaking at the upcoming Democrat National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. In an article published Sunday, NBC News cited two sources familiar with the plans for the event, which is scheduled for August 19 through the 22nd. (Photo) Obama and the Clintons spoke during the DNC in 2020, the outlet noted, adding that “a source familiar said that former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson Jason Carter is also confirmed to be speaking as a representative for his grandfather.” Vice President Kamala Harris, who has chosen Minnesota’s leftist Gov. Tim Walz (D), is expected to formerly accept the Democratic Party’s nomination during the convention. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democratic-national-convention-speakers-biden-obama-clintons-rcna166128

THAT would be the lead story 24/7 until they forced him out. Different rules for democrats. .

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