Not backing away from his Jewish religion and antisemitism ….
An issue that played in the background that his wife Kamala Harris surely had to deal with in one he choices for HER Vice President pick…..
And?
In the sitauion in the Middle East….
Emoff was in Paris for the closing of this years Olympic Games…..
And politics was in the background as he also attended a fundraiser for his wife’s Presidential campaign…
When Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, landed in Paris this week, the Summer Olympics were naturally on the schedule. He watched the U.S. men’s basketball team rally against Serbia, attended track and field events and is to lead the American presidential delegation at the closing ceremony on Sunday.
But Mr. Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of an American vice president or president, also used his trip to focus on an issue that is far more sobering and also deeply personal: a surge of antisemitism in the United States and around the world since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted in October.
“It is a poison coursing through the veins of democracy and democratic ideals,” Mr. Emhoff said on Friday at a commemoration of a deadly 1982 attack on a storied Jewish deli in Paris. Six people were killed in that attack, including two Americans, and 22 were wounded.
“Part of fighting hate is living openly and proudly as a Jew and celebrating our faith and our culture,” Mr. Emhoff said as helicopters buzzed overhead, a reminder of the tight security that France has imposed during the Olympics. “I love being Jewish, and I love the joy that comes with being Jewish. And I’m not going to let anyone tell me how to be Jewish.”
Mr. Emhoff has emerged as the Biden administration’s most visible face in the struggle against antisemitism. He has convened Jewish leaders at the White House, called former President Donald J. Trump “a known antisemite,” and drawn on his faith to offer comfort to Jewish Americans anguished by the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel.
He is also, of course, the spouse of a presidential candidate. And to that end, he attended a private fund-raiser in Paris for Ms. Harris’s campaign, though he made no direct mention of her presidential bid in his public statements — even to the scores of journalists who watched him grab lunch at L’As du Falafel, a celebrated falafel spot, on Friday.
Mr. Emhoff said only that Ms. Harris had encouraged him to embrace his role as one of the Biden administration’s main advocates for Jewish people. “She and I knew that somebody had to speak out, and she knew that I had to take on this fight, no matter how difficult,” he said….
Note…
Early Republican attempts to ding Emhoff on affair he had in a priovos marriage have failed and disappeared from the media….
image….NBC News
What is the relevance of “not backing away from his Jewish religion?” Why would he?
Don’t be naive CG…..
How am I being naive? i am trying to decipher what it is you are trying to say and giving you the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise, what you might be trying to say is not very good. So maybe you can explain yourself better since you often leave so much ambiguity in your blue writing.
Ok….
In the CLEAR…..
Shapiro IS Jewish…..
There was mention of NOT having Shapiro AND Emhoff in the same place,,
That may or MAY NOT affected his NOT getting the VP spot…..
Shapiro WAS the consensus TOP qualifier for the spot Walz got……
Emhoff’s wife was the subject of Pro- Palestine protestors yesterday….
Antisemitism IS floating around in the shadows……
So, I still do not get what you are trying to say.
Shapiro was not picked for VP because he is Jewish…I have been including that among the reasons myself. It seems obvious.
What does this have to do with Doug Emhoff? Why would there be a question over his “not backing away from his Jewish religion” Are you saying because Kamala Harris subject of anti-Semitic protests he might have? Or that he SHOULD have?
Yeah it’s floating around alright.
I believe the campaign found serious skeletons in his closet that would have been a liability for the ticket. No small part of why Fetterman was urging against picking him.
Nobody has alleged any “serious skeletons” in the personal life of Josh Shapiro. Nobody. Walz is the one that had the DUI and never fully took responsibility for it. They seemed to have been willing to accept that.
An issue seems to be, based on their post-leaking, that he wanted to be assured he would actually have some degree of power and responsibility as VP. Many others through history, in both parties, have wanted the same assurances. Whereas, based on what the Harris campaign has leaked, Walz was all, “don’t worry about me. I’ll just do whatever you need and I will never run for President myself.” Plus, he was the more liberal of the two and the Biden team, from upon taking office, continues to believe America is a liberal country.
So, 2028/2032 also played a part.
Walz was the best pick for Harris. The ticket is fantastically balanced.
I think the results of the ’22 midterms, if taken as the floor of Democratic support, more than bear out their theory of America as a Left leaning country.
We would have to definitely disagree on that one. I believe America is a center-right country. There is nothing about today’s Trump Party that can be called “center-right.” It is an amalgamation of far-left and far-right populism. Republicans ran some truly horrible candidates in 2022. Nonetheless, they did win a House majority,
The liberal policies of the Biden Administration have not been popular, whether somebody thinks they should have been or not. Running against Donald Trump is the best thing Democrats have going to state the obvious.