Chilito

Vice President Kamala Harris has been an elected official for over 20 years. She has served as a District Attorney, Attorney General, and U.S. Senator. She has been elected statewide in the country’s largest state. She has been Vice President for over three and a half years. She is very, very smart in Commentary’s book. I fully expected her to ace her first interview since becoming the Democratic Party nominee for President.

There were obviously some MAGA GOP dumbarses thinking she was going to slobber and slog her way through the CNN interview conducted by the experienced and veteran journalist Dana Bash. Vice President Harris and Gov. Tim Walz breezed their way through the Bash questions.

Here is from an AP story on last night’s interview:

After avoiding a probing interview by a journalist for the first month of her sudden presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris’ first one Thursday was notable mostly in how routine it seemed.

CNN’s Dana Bash, sitting down with Harris and running mate Tim Walz in a Georgia restaurant, asked her about some issues where she had changed positions, the historical nature of her candidacy, what she would do in her first day as president and whether she’d invite a Republican to be a Cabinet member (yes, she said).

What Bash didn’t ask — and the Democratic nominee didn’t volunteer — is why it took so long to submit to an interview and whether she will do more again as a candidate.

With no clips from interviews or extended news conferences as a candidate to pick apart, Republican Donald Trump and his campaign had made Harris’ failure to take on journalists an issue in itself. She had promised to rectify that by the end of August, and made it in just under the wire.

In the interview, taped earlier Thursday at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, Bash occasionally had pressed Harris when the vice president failed to answer a question directly. She asked four times, for example, about what led Harris to change her position on fracking — a controversial way to extract natural gas from the landscape — from her brief presidential candidacy in 2020.

Here is the entire AP story: Kamala Harris’ CNN interview was most notable for seeming … ordinary | AP News.

The MAGA GOP types were hoping and expecting major stumbles. Instead, the Vice President and Governor answered the questions on their own terms, like they are supposed to. Nice job.

I don’t know if it is the woman thing, or her being an African American thing, or her being a woman of color thing, or her having that cool laugh thing. The GOP MAGA knuckleheads certainly don’t respect her or think much of her ability.

We learned last night during the interview that the Vice President was making pancakes and bacon for her family on the Sunday morning when President Joe Biden called her to let her know he wasn’t running for president. It got me to thinking what goes into her recipe for making pancakes and does she cook regular bacon or the thick slices. Also, does she partake in maple syrup or Mrs. Butterworth’s or Pearl Milling or jam and does she add blueberries.

Commentary has always had an admiration for Vice President Harris since I first heard about her when she was a District Attorney. I was rooting for her when she ran for president. I rooted for President Biden to select her as his running mate in 2020. It turns out that our birthdays are a day apart. Of course, I am twelve years older than the Vice President. Cool.

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From the who gives a rat’s arse department, State Rep. Shawn Thierry is switching to the GOP and that is all I have to say about this.

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Chilito was delivered to me yesterday by Siete and it is in the featured photo. My sister was in H-Town a couple of weeks ago and she didn’t tell me about this new product.  Here is from the Siete website:

Introducing Siete Small Batch Chilito Chile Lime Seasoning! If you’re looking for something limey, zesty, and full of heritage-inspired flavor to give your snacks and meals an extra bit of flavor, look no further. Our Chilito has got you covered! Our family grew up adding chile lime seasoning to just about all of our snacks, desserts, and many of our recipes, too. We’ll resist the urge to list everything our Chilito enhances (it’s an impossible task—the list is endless!), but here are some of our absolute favorites:

• On fruit like mango, apple, grapes, pineapple, oranges, watermelon—you get the gist!
• On sorbet and paletas (popsicles)
• Sprinkled atop candies and gummies
• Paired with Chamoy Botana Sauce!
• Straight out of the palm of our hand (if you know, you know…)

Who are we kidding? We could go ON AND ON because this Chilito goes on everything! (Guess you’ll just have to taste it yourself to see what we mean!)

You can go look it up yourself here: Small Batch: Chilito Chile Lime Seasoning (sietefoods.com).

I am certainly looking forward to sprinkling Chilito on some goodies.

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We beat the Royals last night and we now have a four-game lead in the AL West. 28 games remain on the schedule.