By Victor Davis Hanson
July 10th, 2019
An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for years claimed Native American ancestry. An embattled Warren ironically took a DNA test that only proved her critics’ contention that she was no more of Native American heritage than the vast majority of Americans.............
Robert Francis O’Rourke, is a rich white male who grew up in affluence. O’Rourke some time ago adopted the name “Beto,” an abbreviation for the Spanish “Roberto.”........ O’Rourke, with a wink and nod, has assumed a useful near-Latino identity............
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was actually born with the alliterative European name Warren Wilhelm Jr. With today’s politically correct calibrations of avoiding Northern European nomenclature, the Latinate “de Blasio” apparently ranks higher than the overtly German “Wilhelm.”..........
Julian Castro emphasizes his common-man Latino roots. But Castro never spoke fluent Spanish. Castro’s parents were solidly middle-class, and he took Latin and Japanese in school..........
Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) often poses as a spokesman for the African American inner-city.....[is] thee child of two IBM executives who sent him to Stanford, after which he became a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate..........
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) attacked former Vice President Joe Biden in a recent debate by claiming that his opposition some 40 years ago to court-mandated busing had endangered her own chance at a good primary-school education. Perhaps. But the city of Berkeley, where Harris briefly lived in as a child before migrating to Canada, was well-integrated. A local school district, not a federal court, instituted the busing program she joined. Both of her parents have Ph.D.s, one a former Stanford professor, the other a scientist who often flew the young Harris to India to visit relatives.
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) is running again as an unapologetic socialist, waging rhetorical class warfare against the haves on behalf of the have-nots.............He reportedly owns three homes and earned nearly $1 million from book royalties in both 2016 and 2017.....................
No matter. The mantra of the new progressive movement is that racism, misogyny and class oppression are everywhere—and that no one is better acquainted with such endemic hatred than upscale Democratic candidates, who have supposedly lived through such ordeals.
No wonder such fantasies so often result in farce..............To Read More....
The top six or seven candidates have far too much baggage and would create more scandal related revelations than needed. Biden looks old & tired; Sanders acts as if emotionally unbalanced; Warren comes across as a vitriolic bitch, always raging at forces she neither understands or could control as president; Harris has a background and personal conduct with a former Mayor that shows what she will do to win and missteps that gave her a start in politics; Booker is a loud mouth, ineffective former mayor of an equally corrupt city of Newark, too loud, too braggadocio; DiBlasio, a total joke, who has condemned his own police force to being humiliated and demeaned. He should never go near a police firing range; Buttigieg, far too inexperienced for the job, weak on global politics and kissing his "husband" broadly on television does not sell in the lower south or Midwest: O'Rourke, like many Texas storms, looking severe but eventually turning in to mere dust devils, soon to be swept away. His views farther left than Marxist, Lenin and Hitler; Gillibrand, Gabbard, good looking but no chance; As for Williamson, let her go back to her mystic crystals and balck magic and mantras and those silly books that don't say anything.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It seemed to me from the beginning the field was so bad that Biden would be the nominee, as unrealistic as that seemed, and as bad a candidate as he has always been. But, as it goes along, that seems to be the way it's going to go. In a field of lunatics, even a bumbling dummy looks good.
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