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Let’s see. The Democratic convention is over, Kamala Harris has gone from Queen of the Political Lepers to Cinderella, from being a political dolt to a genius, from never having won even one primary vote, shunned by all, to the toast of the town. Democrats fell into line without a breath of dissent from Joe’s delegates. It’s reminiscent of the movie “The Mummy” where the mesmerized followers of the undead march down a London street chanting “A-men-ho-tep, A-men-ho tep” only now it’s “Kam-a-la, Kam-a-la.” And Democrats accuse Trumpers of being a cult?

Her accession is right out of the Soviet Central Committee playbook, that and the way they did in old Joe. The comrades would be proud. I repeat myself, but it was pretty much the way our old friend, Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev found himself unexpectedly shunted off to retirement when the comrades found him a liability to the Party. He just had to go. Thus, it was with Joe, as Nancy and his other friends, and his protégé Kamala, loyal faithful Kamala, gave him the ultimatum– go gracefully, or else, or else being the 25^th Amendment– and don’t hang around the convention either. Joe took the hint and headed for the coast on Night One of the Democrats’ circus, his spectre being cleansed the way Stalin erased comrades from Soviet Life photographs.

So now Kamala, having been anointed by the Party promises to vanquish Donald Trump, the horrid Orange Man, by touting her patriotism and erasing a career of neo-Bolshevism.  Quite a trick, she is our “Manchurian Candidate.” Like the James Gregory character in that film who denounced communism while being a communist tool she glorifies America while preparing its obituary with an agenda that stifles a free economy, would suffocate free speech, and glorifies infanticide.

Then there is Comrade Walz who sang the praises of Communist China, called out the National Guard to shoot paintballs at citizens sitting on their front porch, who justified BLM mobs burning down Minneapolis while his wife opened the windows to savor the acrid smoke of livelihoods going up in flames. Walz also operates in a magical world where boys can become girls by signing legislation allowing the sexual mutilation of the mentally disturbed. The Covid mantra “follow the science” was out the window when Walz met transgenderism.

Yes, Chicago was quite the event. There’s still no Harris party platform, there are lots of balloons and hoopla. But when it blows over will Bette Davis’ bon mot from “All About Eve” come true for Kamala: “Beneath it all, she was a really dull girl”?

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Lt. Colonel Civil Affairs, USAR (ret) served twenty-six years in the regular and reserve components of the US Army. He was civil military liaison for the 260th Military Police, DC National Guard, State Public Affairs Officer, Commander of the Public Affairs unit and a counter-drug intelligence analyst. Transferring to the 352 Civil Affairs Command as monuments and archives officer, he became the Command Public Affairs Officer in Iraq as well as liaison to local Iraqi leaders and acting Secretary to the General Staff. He was instrumental in recovering photographic artifacts of the Iraqi Royal family while in Baghdad. He was wounded in action in an ambush in Feb. 2004 for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.
In his civilian career he worked primarily in Army Public Affairs and for the Air Force as historian to the presidential wing in the early Reagan administration and later for Air Force Legislative Liaison covering congressional hearings and assisting in preparing testimony for senior leaders.
His essays and reviews have appeared in the scholarly and popular press including Asian Affairs and the Washington Times. He is co-author, with Ali Wahab, of The Iraqi Royal Family, a Collection of Photographs Recovered from The Ruins of the Zuhur Palace, 2004.
A native New Yorker, he holds a BA with honors in history from Findlay College (Ohio) and an MA in history from The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of the US Army Command & General Staff College and was graduated with distinction US Naval War College with a MA in National Security and Strategic Studies.

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