The art of vacuity

 Oprah Winfrey moderated a 90-minute love-in online for Kamala Harris this past Thursday evening in Michigan. In case you missed it, the White House has posted the transcript here and Forbes has posted the whole thing on YouTube (video at the bottom). The New York Post covered it in this story by Diana Glebova.

No one can afford to shed the brain cells that will be lost by those who dare to take in the whole thing. It is an embarrassment to the United States, if not to humanity. With help from the gentlemen who brought us Barack Obama, Harris has perfected the art of vacuity.

Harris doesn’t say a damn thing. She invites you to project your deepest wishes onto the platitudes whirring in the windmills of her mind. She means to keep up “the fundamental transformation” of the United States, but she is coy about it. She’s not letting on.

What does Harris have to say to those who have yet to make up their mind? She responds:

We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do. That’s why everybody is here right now. We love our country. We — we take pride in the privilege of being American.

And this is a moment where we can and must come together as Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s come together with the — the character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people. We are an optimistic people.

Americans, by character, are people who have dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what is possible. We believe in what can be. And we believe in fighting for that.

That’s how — that’s how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism, is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body; freedom to be safe from gun violence; freedom to have access to the ballot box; freedom to be who you are and just be, to love who you love openly and with pride; freedom to just be. And that’s who we are. We believe in all that.

And so, this is a moment where we stand, knowing what we are fighting for. We’re not fighting against. It’s what we’re fighting for.

Unfortunately, she does not love our country sufficiently to confide her intentions as future president of the United States to prospective voters. She would prefer the undecided to feel the “love” and remain in the cloud of unknowing.

In the clip below two participants pose a question Harris has been asked previously when the occasion presented itself. What will she do to lower the cost of living (editor’s note: i.e., with the inflation she helped ignite)?

Harris regurgitated the nonanswer she has been given to memorize. She doesn’t quite feel their pain à la Bill Clinton, but she’s heard about it: “[Y]ours is a — a story I hear around the country as I travel, and in terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American dream is, for this generation and so many recently, far more elusive than it’s been. And we need to deal with that, and there are a number of ways.”

Long story short: Price controls and subsidies are what she offers to fix the curse of inflation. You can see why she (and they) prefer to keep their intended audience shrouded in the cloud of unknowing.

Here is video of the whole thing.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/09/the-art-of-vacuity.php