by Stephen Kruiser
At this point, it’s fair to wonder if the Secret Service has to toddler-proof the Oval Office whenever Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are meeting there.
I’m fairly certain that there are smart Democrats out there somewhere, the party just doesn’t seem to be big on letting them rise to positions of power. I dove into this in an episode of “Beyond the Briefing” just last week. It’s true that every political party has its bozos, but the Democrats seem to fast-track theirs to the top.
Those of us who have been around politics for a long time remember that Joe Biden’s first run at the presidency was derailed by allegations of plagiarism. This was way back in 1988, when MTV still played music videos all day. The first allegation led to others, and Biden was out of the ’88 race in September of 1987. Thirty-two years later, Kamala Harris would follow in his footsteps, exiting the 2020 race in 2019, long before a primary vote was cast.
It looks like Madame Veep is a big fan of another part of her boss’s playbook.
Did Kamala Harris plagiarize sections of her 2009 book? It sure looks like it. Christopher Rufo has uncovered significant evidence of Harris taking the work of others word for word and passing it off as her own, and it’s damning. Nowadays, when many Americans take for granted that politicians lie, this may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The plagiarism calls into question Harris’ honesty, her integrity, her trustworthiness, and even her most celebrated area of alleged expertise, as the plagiarism took place in a book that was designed to establish her credibility as a prosecutor.
JD Vance knows it’s a big deal. “I saw today, actually,” Vance said Monday, “a story that Kamala Harris apparently copied some significant chunks of her book from Wikipedia. So if you want a president with their own ideas, vote for Donald Trump. If you want a president who copies her own ideas from Wikipedia, vote for Kamala Harris.”
Wikipedia!
OK, it’s embarrassing if a high school student is caught cribbing from Wikipedia. It’s sad if a college student does it. Kamala Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney when she got her embellishment jag on. That’s somewhere on the other side of pathetic. Kamala Harris is a never-ending series of “hold my beer” moments following revelations that lead us to believe that she can’t possibly be an even bigger trainwreck.
I’ve explained this many times, but it bears repeating. California Democrats don’t need to be possessed of great intellect or talent to move up through the ranks; they merely need to meet the right money people early in their careers. That’s easier to do for Dems starting in the Bay Area, which has given us Harris, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and the late Dianne Feinstein, to name a few. The fix is in for any California Democrat who has the proper backing.
Once again, in the eyes of the media, the problem isn’t that a Democrat did something wrong, it’s that they got caught and someone from the Right pointed it out.
