{"id":41926,"date":"2020-03-28T18:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T18:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41926"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T18:33:55","slug":"is-she-really-ready-to-become-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41926","title":{"rendered":"Is she really ready to become POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am going to commit political heresy by questioning the qualifications of a woman of color<\/em> who happens to be on a lot of folks’ short list for the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

I present to you Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has declared he will select a woman to run with him if he becomes the Democrats’ presidential nominee this summer. That’s a done deal. No doubt about it. The former vice president has carved it in stone, signed his name in blood. For all I know he has sworn on a Bible.<\/p>\n

I keep seeing Stacey Abrams’ name on short lists for that call.<\/p>\n

So, I have looked up her background. I found some fascinating chapters in her life story.<\/p>\n

The question that any presidential nominee must ask of a VP selection is this: Is the person I choose qualified to step into the presidency in the event I no longer can serve?\u00a0Is Stacey Abrams qualified to do that?<\/p>\n

She ran for Georgia governor in 2018 and lost by a whisker to Republican Brian Kemp. Prior to that her only political experience was as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Anything else … politically speaking? Nope. That’s it.<\/p>\n

Now, let me be clear. Stacey Abrams is bright and well-educated. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Spelman College; she earned a masters degree in public administration from the University of Texas-Austin; and … she earned her law degree from Yale University. She packs plenty of intellectual wattage.<\/p>\n

I just wonder whether she has earned a place on Joe Biden’s short list of candidates to be the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

The former VP has a gigantic field of competent and highly qualified women he can examine as he looks for a potential running mate. He ran against some of them in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. But there are governors and other members of Congress he can consider.<\/p>\n

I am just a bit leery of someone of Stacey Abrams’ limited political experience<\/em> being thrust into this role of vice-presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

She is young enough to gain more valuable experience. Abrams might do well working in a Cabinet-level post in a Biden administration.\u00a0I just don’t think it’s her time \u2026 at least not yet.<\/p>\n

Please forgive me.<\/p>\n\n

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