Sometimes writing that book isn’t the best idea.
I won’t be reading Kamala Harris’s thrilling adventures as the affirmative action Vice Presidential pick for Joe Biden, who wound up being the default presidential nominee. I have to be honest – it’s not only because she ‘wrote’ it. I don’t believe I’ve ever read a post-administration tell-all, and the only book about any modern campaign I purchased and finished at all was Salena Zito’s The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics (although I do have her recent Butler sitting in a stack).
Zito’s book on the 2016 campaign sounded like part of my personal story, and I wanted to see if what she’d seen in Pennsylvania and on her travels during that hard-fought year reflected what we had experienced in Northwest Florida.
But reading someone’s ‘my time in the White House’ – meh. I only have a few short minutes at night to chill out and enjoy reading, so I’ll catch up on that kind of self-serving tome during the day through other sources.
Which is what I’m doing right now, hearing and reading what’s being released and discussed from Kamala Harris’s 107 Days due to be released on the 23d.
From the little excerpts dribbling out, I’m wondering why she bothered. Was the need so compelling to cleanse her psyche of the trauma of the campaign? Of the very annointment of her as the candidate du jour to begin with, that she thought this had to be shared with the world?
Wouldn’t ‘Dear Dairy‘ entries scribbled in a composition book at night when Dougie was sleeping off his martinis have worked equally as well to relieve her post-traumatic campaign stress and leave us with the Kamala memories we already had?
Which were plenty enough, believe me.
So far, what’s available isn’t making those seem any fonder.
This passage about not picking Buttigieg – great googly moogly.
It’s framed up as so introspective, so deep and dramatic, so awash in Obama-esque ‘the American people are not ready for it’ drivel.
…Harris said her first choice was Buttigieg and went on to lavish praise on his resume, his political chops and his husband, Chasten. But she ultimately decided she couldn’t risk choosing a gay running mate.
“We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she wrote. “Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it.” But knowing what was at stake, it was too big a risk.”
This is one take on it.
Reading this, I couldn’t help but think of JD Vance talking to Martha Raddatz: do you hear yourself?
Kamala wrote essentially, I wanted to do what I thought was right but the American people would let me.
And she thinks both that makes her sound good and it is lost on the… pic.twitter.com/QPQpHMhg60
— Dan Proft (@DanProft) September 19, 2025
…And she thinks both that makes her sound good and it is lost on the American people what she is saying about them.
It will be interesting to see how quickly Mayor Pete sprints away from these statements.
My immediate reaction was more pragmatic and a tad harsher, with the very first thought being, ‘Pete Buttigieg is a LAZY IDIOT who NEVER accomplished a single thing as a small town mayor. Of COURSE an IDIOT would pick an IDIOT.’
Damn near hit my knees thanking the good Lord yet again for allowing Trump and the country to dodge those two bullets.
Josh Shapiro was too intellectual and toxically manly, it seems.
…Harris described Shapiro, one of three finalists for the post, as “poised, polished and personable.” But she was put off by his ambition — and his request to be in the room for every major decision — and worried he would not settle for the number-two job.
Isn’t this the same woman vice-president who has repeatedly bragged about being ‘in the room for every major decision‘? It is the same woman, right?
She’s incoherent.
Harris didn’t pick Mark Kelly because she was supposedly worried about his being Swift boated. In her infinite wisdom and with her remarkably well-honed political instincts, she picked the guy who actually could be.
But, you see, Tim Walz is a bona fide idiot, so he had that going for him with an idiot doing the picking.
And, oh – the homey details, barf.
…Though her husband, Doug Emhoff, leaned toward Shapiro, Harris said Walz was the consensus pick of her staff and other close family members. After preparing a pork roast for dinner, she settled on him.
Walz pick, pork roast, pig in a poke? Am I reading too deeply into this?
Probably.
And she and the others never formed a conspiracy to hide POTATUS’s vegetative state, you know. He was just ancient, that’s all.
…But in the book, Ms. Harris did not lay out a forceful case for why she and others had not stepped in when it became clear how much the presidency was weighing physically and mentally on an octogenarian president. There was no conspiracy to cover up cognitive decline, she wrote — and if there had been, she would have publicly said so. But it was clear that Mr. Biden “got tired” and showed his age in “physical and verbal stumbles.”
But in retrospect, it was awfully silly of him to want to run again, but it’s all on him and Jill, that pushy wife of his.
…She joined other Democrats who have since publicly said it was a mistake not to dissuade Mr. Biden from running. She wrote that it had become a “mantra” that the decision to run remained squarely with Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill. She delicately laid the blame at Mr. Biden’s feet.
Did you know DOCTOR Jill was mean to Dougie? Well, she was, and Dougie – man. Did he ever let that old hag have it.
…When Ms. Harris and Mr. Emhoff appeared on the Truman balcony of the White House with the Biden family on July 4, 2024, the first lady pulled Mr. Emhoff aside and brusquely quizzed him about his loyalties.
In her retelling of how that moment felt, Ms. Harris let her husband do the (sharply worded) talking. “They hide you away for four years, give you impossible jobs, don’t correct the record when those tasks are mischaracterized, never fight back when you’re attacked,” Mr. Emhoff said to her, using an expletive. “Now, finally, they know you are an asset, and they need you to reassure the American people. And still, they have to ask if we’re loyal?”
The Bidens are selfish, and who would have guessed?
Minutes before Kamala went on the debate stage, Biden called her to say that his brother told him that she was bad-mouthing him.
Harris writes: “I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself”https://t.co/rvvVxmqJla
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) September 18, 2025
On her disastrous The View appearance, Kamala waxes poetic that she ‘had NO IDEA‘ she’d ‘popped the pin on the grenade.’
Anyone this oblivious to the implications of her own words has no business holding elected office. Ever. I shudder to think what would have happened if someone so stupid were responsible for this nation.
— Matthew Cason (@MTCason) September 19, 2025
Again, thank You LORD, for seeing us through safely.
Now, Politico thinks this sad exercise was written mainly to get back at everyone Kamala feels stabbed her in the back.
Harris’ score-settling, elbow-throwing, bridge-burning memoir
The former vice president’s reflection on the 2024 campaign includes pointed anecdotes about likely 2028 contenders.
Because without everyone in the whole wide world picking on her, Kamala coulda been a contendah.
In other words – SURPRISE – none of it is her fault.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank You, thank You, thank You.
