Audrey notes that Joe Biden believes that Kamala Harris lost last year’s election because she is a woman of color. Here’s what Biden said:
I wasn’t surprised — not because I didn’t think the Vice President was the most qualified person to be president, she is, she’s qualified to be president of the United States of America — but I was surprised. I wasn’t surprised because they went the route of, the sexist route, the whole route. I mean, this is a woman. She’s this, she’s that. I mean, it really, I’ve never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country and a woman of mixed race and uh — and they, they, they played that to a
What nonsense! Indeed, every line is silly. Let’s take them one by one.
not because I didn’t think the Vice President was the most qualified person to be president, she is, she’s qualified to be president of the United States of America
Qualified, sure. But “most qualified”? Where did this idea come from? And what does it mean?
Tim Walz said recently that Kamala Harris was the most qualified person to be president in American history? On what possible grounds could this be true? Even if you look past the fact that she’s a blithering idiot, are we really supposed to believe that she was more qualified for the role than George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or James Madison or Ulysses S. Grant or Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush?
Perhaps Biden meant “in that election”? But that’s unpersuasive, too. There is a lot wrong with Donald Trump, but it is an indisputable fact that, by 2024, he’d already been president for four years. No doubt Joe Biden would have preferred that Harris, not Trump, had succeeded him. But to stretch that out into a claim that Harris was the “most qualified” seems like an odd jump.
Biden continued:
I wasn’t surprised because they went the route of, the sexist route, the whole route.
Who is “they”? What was involved in that “sexist route”? What made it the “whole route”? I’m sure that, at some point, some people in America said some sexist things about Harris. But it was rare to hear such talk — and it was nigh on impossible to hear such talk from the Republican Party. Does Biden have some examples, perchance?
She’s this, she’s that.
Ah, yes. That classic sexist attack line: “she’s this, she’s that.” Who could forget?
On Biden went:
I mean, it really, I’ve never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country and a woman of mixed race and uh
“Uh” is the right word here. Indeed, “uh” sums up Biden’s analysis nicely, because there was, in fact, no such “successful and [] consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country.” There was a successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that Kamala Harris couldn’t lead the country, because Kamala Harris is an illiterate, vacuous, cackling buffoon who, despite the best efforts of the American press, was never able to explain why all the crazy things she had said in 2019 were no longer operative. Women per se? That did not come up, and, if it had come up, it would have backfired badly on the GOP.
Biden concluded:
and they, they, they
Well, quite.