Has anything new happened in my hiatus? Some of you may know I was away for a few weeks following heart surgery. I am recovering well and will make intermittent stops here to give my take on the news. Let’s see. I understand there was a presidential debate, and the Democrats are, as usual, wetting their pants because their candidate was not perfect. It would be hard not to say, and I am sure Mr. Biden would agree he was putrid. Instead of critiquing the president I believe in, I want to reaffirm my support for him and the Democratic party. Democratic consternation is precisely why I am a lifelong Democrat. Being willing to self-examine is a plus; it is our conclusions that often suck. Yes, President Biden is an old man who walks tentatively, stutters more pronouncedly, and occasionally loses his place when speaking. I have yet to hear the case for his failures in administrating his office, but the calls for him to drop out, because some people want to be more right than helpful, are disturbing.
Commentators, editorialists, adversaries, and even some Democrats describe Biden’s eccentricities as the sum of the man. In his younger days, he was quaintly characterized as a gaffe machine; now, SURPRISE, he is an older gaffe machine. However, I am still waiting for someone to point out his failures to run the government and propose effective policies. Even his release of some of our strategic oil reserves for domestic and overseas sale and repurchasing them cheaper (sell high, buy low) was a stroke of genius that will eventually lead to a drop in gas prices.
Conversely, the blind loyalty and willingness of the Republican party to fight to reinstitute a monarchy we fought the Revolutionary War to escape are exactly why being a modern Republican should be abhorrent to us all. Where are the breathless and constant calls for Mr. Trump to drop out from the press and politicians, including Democrats? Except for a few days of breath-holding from Republicans who thought Donald Trump would fade into oblivion after the “grab them by the p***y” tape and, more seriously, inciting a riot in furtherance of an insurrection on January 6, 2021, Republicans are willing to prostrate themselves before him for tainted power.
Inexplicably, a former President and now candidate twice impeached (once for the attempted extortion of a foreign leader), the other for the insurrection mentioned above, convicted on 34 felony counts, habitually lying to the public and threatening dictatorship (even for one day) is skipping along without daily calls for him to leave the race for the presidency of the United States. Trump’s followers listened to him in his own words describe how he and others he deems as “famous” can, at their whim, take away a woman’s agency and assault her at the time and place of their choosing. Even after hearing him describe his methods of predatory sexual behavior, his sycophants still refuse to believe he forced himself (sexually) on writer E. Jean Carroll. Couple that with the scores of other women, including teens at the Miss Teen USA pageant, who have accused the former President of inappropriate, if not sexually demeaning, actions.
So, while the handwringing continues over the exploits of an honest man trying his best to “save the soul of America,” keep in mind that the alternative is a man who is intent on dragging America's soul into his private hell.
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