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Beware of the Racist and Sexist Kamala Harris Smear Campaign
The vice president is not above criticism, but after just a few months on the job, media narratives feel especially spiteful
Although Kamala Harris becoming America’s first female vice president is an historical feat worthy of continued celebration, that has not made the position itself any less of a pain to hold.
Former Vice President John Adams once said of the vice presidency: “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
Another former vice president, John Nance Garner, was less interested in prose when conveying his resentment for the job. “The vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm piss,” Garner once declared; he also said taking the job was “the worst damn fool mistake I ever made.” Back in 2014, then Vice President Biden joked that the job of vice president was “a bitch.”
I’m sure Vice President Harris can already privately attest to some of the problems related to her current office, but I wonder more about whether she’s beginning to question if some around her are intentionally trying to make an already challenging position more difficult.
