Kamala Harris: The Democrats’ anti-Palin

At first glance, the president and Harris have much in common: both are mixed-race children of immigrants raised by a single mother; both are eloquent, telegenic big-city lawyers with strong liberal credentials who catapulted from relative obscurity to the national stage. And like the first African-American president, Harris has broken a long-standing barrier – she’s California’s first African-American attorney general, and the first woman to hold the office…

(Word that some eager Democrats have dubbed her the “anti-Palin” draws a one-word reply: “Oy.”)…

“She’s a rare talent who will be a national figure shortly,” said Chris Lehane, a former Clinton aide who is now a consultant in California. “People call her the female Obama. It’s more apt to say she is the female Obama that progressives thought they were voting for.”