Biden turns to Kamala and tells her she is the 'the first really smart decision I made in this administration'
By Morgan Phillips
Daily Mail
April 8, 2-22
'Thank you, Kamala, thank you,
thank you, thank you. The first really smart decision I made in this
administration,' he said, turning towards the VP during a celebration for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed to the Supreme Court
President Biden in a made-for-TV sweet moment called Vice President Kamala Harris the first 'really smart decision' he made in his presidency as he spoke during a celebration for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Harris introduced him as she told of the 'deep sense of pride and joy' she felt watching the votes roll in to confirm Jackson to the high court.
'We are standing here in great part
because of one President Joe Biden and because of Joe Biden's vision
and leadership and commitment a lifelong commitment to building a better
America,' Vice President Kamala Harris said before Biden took the stage
outside the White House
'We are standing here in great part because of one President Joe Biden and because of Joe Biden's vision and leadership and commitment a lifelong commitment to building a better America,' the vice president said before Biden took the stage outside the White House.
Biden's remarks could have been an attempt to undercut reports of tension and frustration between the offices of the West Wing.
Thank you, Kamala, thank you, thank you, thank you. The first really smart decision I made in this administration,' he said, turning towards the VP.
'My name is Joe Biden, please sit down. I'm Jill's husband and Naomi Biden's grandfather,' he said, eliciting a chuckle from the crowd.
He praised the confirmation of Jackson: 'This is going to let so much sun shine on so many young women, so many young black women, so many minorities.'
Biden's remarks could have been an attempt to undercut reports of tension and frustration between the offices of the West Wing.
New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns write in their new upcoming book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future that the first minority and female vice president felt belittled by Biden's white staff.
'Some of Harris's advisers believed the president's almost entirely white inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved,' they wrote.
'Harris worried that Biden's staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious,' they added, according to excerpts published by Politico last month.
Harris even sent out chief of staff Tina Fluornoy to scold Biden's staffers for not standing up when she entered the room, the way they do for the president. 'The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect,' according to the book.
Biden tasked Harris with addressing immigration – and the vice president took her opportunities to share her dissatisfaction with the role.
According to the book, Harris' aides felt that the task of addressing the southern border crisis, in any way, was politically undesirable and wanted the vice president to have a more softball foreign policy assignment – like overseeing relations with Nordic countries.
'Staff floated the possibility of the vice president overseeing relations with the Nordic countries — a low-risk diplomatic assignment that might have helped Harris get adjusted to the international stage in welcoming venues like Oslo and Copenhagen,' the authors wrote.
They added that the prospect of overseeing Nordic countries was 'rejected' by White House aides and even 'privately mocked.'
'More irritating to Biden aides was when they learned the vice president wanted to plan a major speech to outline her view of foreign policy,' they added in the book. 'Biden aides vetoed the idea.'
The border crisis was transferred from Biden's portfolio to Harris' shortly after inauguration.
Harris' team quickly rejected the classification of 'border czar', making sure that it was known she was only looking at root causes of migration in Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Martin and Burns write that Harris does 'not hesitate to chide Biden for characterizing her assignment' in terms of addressing immigration.
Then amid leaked reports of chaos, toxicity and dysfunction in the VP's office, Biden himself called in his staff and threatened to fire anyone who went to the press with damaging information.
The president reportedly hauled staffers into the Oval Office in after a story emerged in the outlet in June painting Harris' office as an 'abusive environment.'
Biden warned senior staff that if 'he found that any of them was stirring up negative stories about the vice president' then 'they would quickly be former staff.'
The book describes the pair's relationship as 'friendly but not close.'
'Their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy,' the authors wrote -- a notable departure from the president's characteristic warmth.
2 comments:
My opinion, for what my opinion is worth, is that Kamala is by nature less intelligent than Joe used to be before he started suffering from stroke, senile dementia and brain rot. Right now it might be a toss-up.
They are both dumb. They were elected by the American People. What does that say about the American People?
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