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The Issue: Kamala Harris becomes the first prez candidate in decades to skip the Al Smith dinner.
The Post reported that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the first presidential candidate in 40 years to not attend the Al Smith dinner (“Who’s running this place? Sure not Joe,” Miranda Devine,” Sept. 23).
Devine says it is because Harris lacks competence at impromptu events.
And as a practicing Catholic, I find her absence from the dinner and her general attitude toward the Catholic religion to both be completely offensive.
Pope Francis recently encouraged Catholics to vote for the lesser of the two evils.
Therefore, I will not be voting for Harris.
I urge all Catholics to follow my lead.
Rich LePetri
Naples, Fla.
The dinner is just a night of political jokes, as it has always been.
Harris will need to learn to face the music — there will be worst confrontations than this if she’s elected.
J.R. Cummings
Manhattan
Harris, who claims that she wants to be a president for all Americans, has chosen to skip this year’s historic Al Smith dinner.
Perhaps it’s because her infamous “word salad” is not on the menu?
Anne Marie Marsala
Garden City
Kudos to the Editorial Board for admonishing the Democratic presidential nominee for failing to attend a worthy cause such as the Al Smith dinner (“Why Harris Is Dissing Al Smith,” Sept. 23).
Let’s face it — former President Donald Trump might have enjoyed an enviable array of Harris’ brilliant comments to mock. Trump’s potential “Kamala-logue” could cover falling out of a coconut tree, her love of school buses and Venn diagrams, along with her brilliant explanation of the passage of time.
In case Harris loses the race, I thought that, while in Manhattan, she might have harnessed her mighty cackle (and truly explore what can be unburdened by what has been) to audition for a role as a late-night host at NBC or CBS.
She’s a true comedian, after all.
Michael P. Mulhall
Moseley, Va.
Regarding Piers Morgan’s article, “Oh, Kam on, you coward!” (Sept. 24): Trump is not a plagiarizer, but he should use Morgan’s suggestions for the Al Smith dinner word for word.
Did Morgan ever hit the Kamala nail on the head.
Maria Cutro
Tenafly, NJ
The Issue: First Lady Jill Biden running a Cabinet meeting while President Biden left for Delaware.
Another day, another slap in the face to the American people from the patronizing Democrats (“Who’s the boss?” Sept. 21)
President Biden began a Cabinet meeting, then absquatulated back home to Delaware as First Lady Jill Biden took over.
This sounds like a skit from an old Marx Brothers movie — but it actually occurred.
This abdication from responsibility is jaw-dropping and horrifying.
Even as the curtain has been rolled back to reveal their pernicious ways, Democrats continue with their “citizens be damned” arrogance.
Sometimes it seems that holding power is their only goal.
Come November, the American voter must take it from them.
James McCaffrey
Yonkers
Wake me up from this nightmare.
Who put Jill in charge?
I don’t remember her being on the ballot in 2020.
The sooner the Biden family is sent back to Delaware, where Joe can be on permanent vacation, the better.
If this was the Republican Party, we would never hear the end of it.
The Dems’ hubris knows no bounds.
And who knows how many other meetings Jill was running?
Betsy Flor
Putnam Valley
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