“You will know them by their works,” says Saint Matthew, or “by their fruits.” Here we have one of the worst hurricanes ever to hit the United States, with people devastated, hundreds dead, and millions in need.
Donald Trump was there in hours, organizing private giving. President Biden and Vice President Harris could not be bothered with a visit until days later, too interested in themselves. There – in a nutshell – is the entire campaign: Do or do not, as Yoda says. Care or care not. Act or act not.
If there is a silver lining to this horrific turn across our distressed southeast, up Appalachia’s spine, perhaps it is political insight, a wider understanding of reality, Trump cares, and Harris is a pile of rocks.
Harris, last Sunday, pledged $157 million US taxpayer dollars to Lebanon, where Hezbollah runs freely, after she and Biden invited Iran’s surrogates to hit Israel, paying them billions.
Meantime, the level of damage wrought by Hurricane Helene is off the charts, – pounding Americans who had little to start with, just Biden-Harris’ inflation, unaffordable housing, energy, illegal aliens, drugs, and crime. The cost assessed by NOAA is not “in the trillions.”
Tell me, if you can, how this amounts to leadership. Harris finally went down and got herself photographed with volunteers – like at the border – in a politically staged photo with just enough of each demographic to help win votes, or …not.
The best advertisement for disgust with politics, for real people replacing privileged, out-of-touch, unresponsive buffoons, is Harris pretending to care, at the border, in North Carolina, anywhere.
To watch clips of her coifed, made up, neat, and tidy self in this devastated part of the world, cheerfully smiling, brushing her hair back, nodding, saying nothing, putting deodorant and toothpaste into a plastic bag, as if she is part of a solution, while the federal government blocks private aid, refuses to accelerate federal FEMNA aid, and focuses on Lebanon, is a disgrace.
If ever an event proved the point, that Americans need leaders at every level who are real, who care, have a record for action, are in the game, on top of their game, of substance, action not words, this is it. If ever there was a comparison between doers and talkers, solvers and squawkers, this is that.
Notably, Matthew – and much of the Bible – understands the “Harris type,” who they are and what they represent, Pharisees and hypocrites, talking a good game and doing nothing, or worse.
Wrote Matthew also, recalling Isaiah, pointing out what all could see in his time and what we should see now, “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Matthew 15:7-9.
Bottom line: If people do not see, they do not want to see. Harris is for Harris, no heart for America or Americans in real pain, her posturing as ruthless and empty as her words are inane, her demeanor revealing of hubris, uncaring, a future with her as devastating at Hurricane Helene.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.
