WASHINGTON DC

JUST WHEN SHE might have believed she had smiled and laughed her way to the White House, Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is being told by supporters that if she doesn’t smile and laugh a lot more she might well have to outline her policies in detail.

“That might not be the smartest move,” says political guru Lincoln Kennedy. “She launched her campaign in a blaze of smiles and laughter, so much of it that no one felt the need to ask her what exactly she stood for. I guess it was assumed she was Biden II Her media fans kept the party going. And then came Labor Day and it all stopped. You see, Labor Day is when Americans get serious about Presidential elections. Kamala was still grinning but the party had moved on. Meanwhile Donald Trump was talking policy before an audience of bigwigs, laying out his policies in nice easy answers to polite but useful questions. These were practical matters, he discussed. No ideology. Harris has yet to do that. Apart from telling women they’ll get full abortion rights back if she’s elected, she has hardly said anything substantial between the laughing and the smiling. So either she puts up or she doubles down on the laughing and smiling – as I understand allies are encouraging her to do – and hopes no one in the electorate notices. Meanwhile Trump edges ever so slightly ahead. It’s all to play for. But it’s serious now.”