Former “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi made perhaps the most ridiculous argument yet in support of Kamala Harris becoming president of the United States, in a recent guest essay published in The New York Times. As Padma sees it, Kamala most displays her “success as a leader” through her cooking skills.
Lakshmi’s essay starts out naively foolish — and goes downhill from there:
I see what everyone else sees on Kamala Harris’s résumé: a history of public service that qualifies her for the presidency. But I would argue that the qualities she shows as a cook might say even more about her success as a leader.
Setting aside Lakshmi’s claim that Harris’s public service history qualifies her for the presidency, I have a problem connecting the dots between being a good cook — with no disrespect to good cooks — and the requisite skills and necessary traits to become the leader of the Free World. (Then again, see: “Joe Biden.”)
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Lakshmi praised Harris for showing a “clear delight in cooking and in talking about almost any type of food — a passion that is core to who she is, like basketball for Barack Obama or golf for Donald Trump.”
The star chef then absurdly conflated “nurturing and nourishing” as a cook with leading the American people:
I want a president who is intent on nurturing and nourishing all Americans.
I wonder if Lakshmi thinks Kamala’s meaningless word salads are a good source of nourishment.
Then the slobbering all over Harris really began:
In various ways, Ms. Harris’s candidacy is reinventing the rules, as she simply bypasses old expectations about race, gender and political campaigning. Food is yet another example of how Ms. Harris sidesteps generations of tension.”
Cooking was for a long time a trap for female political figures. Many felt they had to disavow the household sphere altogether to be taken seriously — and then produce baked goods to counterbalance perceptions they were too ambitious.
In cooking, Ms. Harris displays the very qualities this country sorely needs — her care, and her ability to tell a new kind of story about what it means to be American.
In 1992, Hillary Clinton defended her professional life as a lawyer, saying, “I suppose I could have stayed home, baked cookies.” …
Today, in talking about cooking, Ms. Harris has found a way to reconcile what a previous generation may have seen as a contradiction and simply present it as who she is.
I got nothin’ — except this:
Kamala Harris’s “ability to tell a new kind of story” consists of unintelligible word salads, canned rehearsed responses that intentionally evade questions asked in debates or interviews, repeating debunked claims about the evils of Donald Trump, and other such foolishness.
Again, the “foodie” might be a good cook, but she has no business anywhere near the Oval Office.
Yet, visceral hatred of Donald Trump is more important to the left than the welfare and security of America.
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