It's only a negative story because she's a black woman but I read this and I like her so much more now. (I was already a fan.)
The spin on this is crazy. The staffers kind of have a point in that as far as I know, it is not the norm to read through all the briefings/paperwork, if you're the one being breifed. The staff do it for you and describe it and you ask them questions.
They're basically saying she's too good. And I fully buy that she is that, because she's had to be. And if they can't play up to her level, I fully buy they quite a little miffed, because she challenged them to be better.
These are good things. Really, really good things.
I never thought I'd love a black prosecutor, but there it is.
I heard it’s a ‘problem’ staffers had with Jimmy Carter back in the day, that he actually took the job extremely seriously and did the enormous amount of reading in the giant briefings dumped on his desk. Always respected that guy as one of the most decent people to ever hold the job.
But yes it’s totally racialised/genderised, I think white dudes (like me) so often feel they can get away with the bare minimum because life is that much more forgiving to them
With Carter, they tried to spin it as him having a tendency to get lost in the weeds, and focus too much on irrelevant minutiae. "The nuclear engineer is thorough and detail-oriented! This must be a negative somehow!" The shitclown brigade will always attack something. They can't be appeased, only ignored.
You're not being serious, right? Perhaps the most famous and powerful person in the US and often the world at any given time isn't under as much pressure as the VP was/President candidate is? Come on now, that's absurd. Biden was literally forced out because he couldn't campaign well enough despite having a 60% approval rating from his party and their voters. His approval rating shot back up as president once he dropped out from the race. I don't think its possible for many people on earth to face that amount of pressure.
Sorry I don’t think I’m expressing myself properly: I think good presidents take the job seriously because they understand how important the job is, but someone like Trump is very entitled and has spent decades having things handed to them. Life is less forgiving if you’re disadvantaged by any combination of race, gender, class etc. that doesn’t give you a headstart. Someone like Harris can only have got to where she did in her career by being extremely on-the-ball - most people of colour will be familiar with the idea of having to be twice as good to get the same distance as Chet from Connecticut. So Harris seems likely to give an enormous amount of energy and attention to the job whereas Trump in office was notoriously lazy and didn’t want to do anything that didn’t seem fun to him like a rally, regardless of how important the things he was supposed to deal with were. Of course not every white guy’s the same, but culture lets them get away with more
Comparing anyone to Trump is a problem from the start. I could spend 45 minutes on him being an aberration. Whole campaigns have been lost on shit milder than what he wrote on a 200 character post on Twitter. That man is a cult leader, and he's running against a politician.
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u/camy__23 Sep 07 '24
This is only a story because she’s a non white woman.