SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

KAMMIE, WHAT HAPPENED? – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   Biden administration officials are “quietly perplexed” about Vice President Harris’ fumbling multiple questions about the border and are concerned her unforced errors will overshadow her first international trip, according to a report.  Speaking to CNN, administration officials discussed how the question of visiting the border dogged Harris for the whole trip, with her answer to NBC News’s Lester Holt stealing the spotlight from her work.  “At some point, you know, we are going to the border,” a defensive Harris told Holt on “Today” in Guatemala — 1,308 miles away from the southern U.S.-Mexico crossing. “We’ve been to the border. So this whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border,” Harris said, to which Holt replied, “You haven’t been to the border.”
Biden officials are worried that Harris’s clumsy news conference will overshadow her first international trip as vice president.  Harris, seeming to laugh at her own joke, responded: “And I haven’t been to Europe. And I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I’m not discounting the importance of the border.”
Administration officials told CNN there was “a real hope” that the trip would be a success, and voiced their concern that “what looked like ill-prepared answers to that inevitable question would overshadow it.” When you choose public officials based on the groups they're from, rather than their ability and experience, this is what happens.

WISDOM – FROM FOX:   A magazine editor explained on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday why he's reconsidering whether to hire Ivy league graduates.  "I would just say that 10 years ago I would have seen that as a big positive on their resume and now I see it as a negative that they have to overcome in the interview because obviously there are going to be great kids all over in higher [education] at different schools," said the editor of "First Things" magazine, Rusty Reno.  Reno said back then, the negative tendencies of Ivy League graduates was that they had a "sense of entitlement" and "arrogance."  "They want to write the lead editorial on day one rather than proofread. But, hey, you can work with that. Because it reflects positives, which are confidence and ambition. These are good things." Reno said.  However, most of the worldviews of Ivy league graduates have changed over the years, Reno argued.  "Now, I'm seeing these young people that they have, to be frank, a kind of a distorted view of reality," Reno said.  Read the whole thing.  Reno says what many think. 

June 9, 2021