Welcome to my daily political musings. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy!
Not since Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett have we seen such mastery of deadpan looks played directly into the camera while seeming to be completely unaware that camera even existed. The Vice President was clearly aware the camera was on her for the entire debate, no matter how innocent she looked. Boy, was she aware.
I think she gave a master class on the Art of Non Verbal Communication. That class marked the biggest difference between the Vice President and the Geezer, who spent the evening bathing in the Golden Pond. It’s often true that as we grow older, we wish for people to remember our lives with the same golden glow that we use to paint all of our memories. Some people use those golden memories to entertain or enlighten us. Some use those memories to try to rewrite the story of their life to keep from gagging on the memories of the actual events. The Geezer went down that road.
The Vice President stood by patiently waiting for his mental convulsions to pass as she loaded the next reality check into her automatic grenade launcher. She bombed the poor man with Truth grenade after Truth grenade. One of her best grenades was about Jan 6. She only had to say that she was there as a senator and the Vice President-elect. The poor dumb bastard then tried to blame Nancy and the Mayor of DC for not having the National Guard when the Maryland National Guard was prevented from coming in for hours.
That didn’t play well.
The Vice President replayed a couple of her hit “Mom Looks” just to remind us of what she really thinks of a lying man. She wasn’t sexist, but she could have been singing, “I am your mother. Listen to me,” and she wouldn’t have been more obvious. If those weren’t “wait til I get you home” looks, I was never a kid. I don’t know if you can call little boys having temper tantrums sexists or not. All I can say is that his looks, as well as her looks, were not a good look for a presidential wannabe.
Word of advice for 45. If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of Ms. Harris’ Kitchen. It might be true that her looks can kill.