Kamala Harris At DNC Telethon: She Worked Hard to Not Excite Anyone With Her Acceptance Speech

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RedState  "When the lede of many major news organizations’ coverage of her speech merely a reference to the self-evident fact that she is the first “woman of color” to be nominated to run for Vice President, the content of the speech that followed must have been pretty bland.

"And Kamala Harris delivered exactly that.

"In going through the text of a quite pedestrian speech, one line stuck out:

In this election, we have a chance to change the course of history.

"Joe Biden was Vice-President for eight of the past twelve years.  If “changing the course of history” was so vital, why didn’t they do it then?

"And there were two odd references to events of the past that seem to me to have all the trappings of historical revisionism:

I knew Joe as Vice President. I knew Joe on the campaign trail. But I first got to know Joe as the father of my friend.

Joe’s son, Beau, and I served as Attorneys General of our states, Delaware and California. During the Great Recession, we spoke on the phone nearly every day, working together to win back billions of dollars for homeowners from the big banks that foreclosed on people’s homes.

"This claim might very well be true.  At the same time, this claim might very well be fact-checked, and if it is an embellishment or not true at all, it could stick around a while." . . .