It's pathetic that the public had to wait more than 5 weeks for an interview with the Democratic Party presidential nominee. It's also frustrating that she went to CNN, which has such a strong bias in her favor and against Donald Trump.
Having said that, I though Dana Bash's questions were (mostly) good, though inadequate, and that the interview gave viewers a fairly good look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the Harris-Walz ticket, especially the latter.
Harris has no sense of direction. Asked what she would do first as president, she could not give a straight answer. Asked why her policy positions had apparently shifted since she ran for president in 2019, she could not give an explanation.
That said, she has a good sense of the cultural direction of the country -- at least as Democrats want to define it. When Bash invited her to go off on Trump on the topic of race, Harris made a show of holding back, which was clever.
Tim Walz is basically useless. He brings a large body and a coach personality to the ticket. He doesn't add anything. Physically, he is so much larger than Harris (or appeared so) that he makes her look less presidential, at least on TV.
I think the interview was good for Harris, in that she can now say she's done one. I think it was bad for her, in that she looked indecisive. As I explained in my Breitbart column this week, Harris offers "consensus" without leadership. Weak.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
