Since Joe Biden’s removal from the ticket, and the vice president becoming the presumptive candidate, Kamala Harris has carefully curated all her public appearances. Most of the time, this means heavily scripted rallies with popular entertainers doing the heavy lifting.
She was in a completely different situation on Thursday. Harris was in Houston to give the eulogy of recently deceased Democrat politician Sheila Jackson Lee. Things got weird.
Harris began to tout her political achievements at one point. She called herself “the President,” and the room burst into applause. This is a memorial.
Kamala Harris accidentally calls herself ‘the president’ during late Dem Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s eulogy — causing crowd to go wild https://t.co/eoD5XTAQVu pic.twitter.com/vAmOOuPl09
— New York Post (@nypost) August 1, 2024
As vice president and president (long applause )…, I had the honor to stand with Shelia Jackson Lee when our president Joe Biden signed the bill into law.
As the applause rages, the camera pans out to show Jackson Lee’s coffin. Harris begins to laugh as she stumbles her way through the remainder of her statement.
Many cited as an example the Paul Wellstone Memorial in 2002, which was turned into an anti-Republican rally, complete with jeers and cheers. The press was more fair in those days, but the Democrat’s decision to use a funeral as a rally for a political campaign became a scandal. The backlash was so intense that it could have tilted the balance in favor of Republicans during an election they had been predicted to lose.
Although I doubt the press will say anything about Harris’ use of a funeral as a political tool or the disrespectful actions of the audience, this is still disturbing. Has anything become sacred? Who boasts about his or her political record during someone else’s funeral service? Who cheers them on? This is a concept that’s completely foreign to me (and probably most of you).
But the Democrat’s thirst for power is unrestrained. No matter how incongruous, they will take advantage of any opportunity to improve their chances. They play for the long haul, and can you blame them in an environment that has no consequences?
