Joe Biden went for my favourite choice!

I have been going on about Kamala Harris for months. So it's a moment of great satisfaction for me personally that Joe Biden has finally decided to agree with me and has chosen the Californian senator and former presidential hopeful to be his running mate. It is without question the right choice. All the newspapers have focused without any surprise at all on her being the first black woman ever to be chosen as a potential vice president and the first woman of Asian origin. But it's a crying shame that it has to be like this, that the colour of her skin has to be given such prominence. But even in these supposedly more elightened times, skin colour is still an issue. But for me Kamala Harris stood out amongst the original bunch of candidates as someone with style and leadership potential and experience and looked and sounded great. So, not a difficult choice as far as I'm concerned. But dear Joe has taken his time and been through all the review process before realising that she was always the frontrunner. There will of course be critics who will say Biden should have gone for Elizabeth Warren or Susan Rice. But now Kamala is the one I hope the Democratic party as a whole will praise her to the skies and give her all the backing she will need as Trump and co try to undermine her career and reputation and remind us all every minute of the day that she took Biden to task for his doubtful - he denies it - anti-racism past. I think Kamala Harris will be a star and I hope that another star of the Democratic party, Michelle Obama, will help her and guide her about what life is like in the White House. But first of course she and Biden have to beat Trump and Mike Pence and that is still not a given.