What’s Up with Joe Biden?
In the Victorian era, Biden’s mildly inappropriate behavior with women would have been called taking liberties. Kissing the head, hair, or cheek, touching the leg of a woman one barely knew would have been a more serious violation back then—licentious behavior. (Can you tell I’m a fan of nineteenth century romanticism?) Mores and standards of behavior have relaxed quite a bit since then. However, the behaviors described above are still essentially taking liberties, just not rising to the level of sexual assault.
Do you think Joe gets it now, as he claims? His comments and jokes on the issue suggest he doesn’t. Can he refrain from acting on these little impulses from here forward? Who knows, but I’m skeptical. Biden is now 76 years old (birthday November 20). If he’s elected president next year, he’ll be 78 when he takes office—82 when his first term ends. You good with that?
Are you shaking in your boots at the prospect of a second term for Cruel Naked Emperor Trump? Sure, that’s scary. Really scary. But surely there’s a better candidate to bet the farm on.
I’m gonna be honest. I’d love to see a woman in the White House. Finally. But if we gotta go with a safe white guy, let’s take a serious look at Jay Inslee. Inslee is a second term governor of Washington and his signature issue is tackling climate change. He’s 68 and married to the same woman since 1972. He gets it that the environmental devastation of global warming is the existential threat of our times. Our times, not 50 or 100 years in the future. He wrote a book on “igniting a clean energy economy” called Apollo’s Fire. His state is at the forefront of the clean energy revolution.
Inslee doesn’t stand on tables, and he’s not the youngest or edgiest candidate, but he’s solid. At least I think he is. Check him out and tell me what you think.