By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 03:31:38 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:35:08
1 week ago
The obvious, pathetic reason Kamala Harris will skip the Al Smith dinner
https://nypost.com/2024/ ^ | 9/22/2024 | Post Editorial Board
Posted on 09/22/2024 8:19:17 PM PDT by bitt
Ouch: It seems Kamala Harris is so afraid of having to be spontaneous in public that’s she’s skipping this year’s Al Smith dinner on Oct. 17.
A charity event that raises millions for the city’s unfortunate, the dinner has hosted the major-party rivals every four years (with just two exceptions) since 1960, when Richard Nixon dared to join John Kennedy, the first Catholic presidential nominee since Al Smith himself, on Catholic “turf.”
The candidates are supposed to deliver light jabs at each other in their dueling addresses, which plainly can be written in advance — but the program apparently has too many risks of being called upon for spontaneous reactions for Harris to agree.
The Democratic nominee has done vastly fewer non-Teleprompter events than any past major-party candidate; one of her allies claims Harris is just too busy — though that’s never stopped a sitting president from attending.
Kamala says she will do the Smith dinner in the future — if she wins in November. (Is that a carrot or a stick?)
As for those exceptions: One came in 1996, when the then-cardinal opted to invite neither nominee, presumably because President Bill Clinton had vetoed a bill that banned “abortions” of babies already partly out of the mother.
That could be Harris’ concern now, since she and running-mate Tim Walz support unlimited abortion rights all the way through the ninth month of pregnancy. (Walz even signed a bill ensuring that babies born despite an attempted abortion would have no protections.)
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alsmithdinner; kamalaharris; skip
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1 posted on 09/22/2024 8:19:17 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/22/2024 8:19:31 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
To: bitt
The Al Smith Dinner seems tailor made for someone like
Kamala. All she has to do is tell one or two very lame ‘jokes’, then cackle about each one for about eight minutes each. Cackle until the band starts playing an intro of the next speaker, then act surprised and offended when they turn your Mike fully off. You know the script, Kamala.
3 posted on 09/22/2024 8:23:36 PM PDT by lee martell
To: bitt
If she won’t do this how will she ever get a head...
4 posted on 09/22/2024 8:25:13 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: bitt
Actually, I thought the reason Kammy doesn’t want to be at that dinner is because the founder and supporters of the dinner are (gasp!) Catholic, and at best, ambiguous on abortion issues.
5 posted on 09/22/2024 8:27:26 PM PDT by lee martell
To: bitt
She’s a coward. And low IQ.
God help us if this socialist dimwit is elected.
6 posted on 09/22/2024 8:27:41 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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