Two more for Joe Biden:
This country needs a real leader. It needs vision, or at the very least a president who cares about others, doesn’t lie and seeks solutions. America must elect Joe Biden on Nov. 3.
Biden would make a fine president even if it were a normal election year. This is not a normal year. Biden’s life and experience as a public servant make him eminently qualified to serve as commander in chief. Barack Obama obviously thought so, which is why he asked Biden to be his vice president.
Of course, qualifications and credentials have become all but irrelevant in our currently warped political reality. Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and he has had hundreds of chances to prove his doubters wrong.
Unfortunately, his presidency has been an abject failure. Full stop.
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The question today isn’t Trump’s health. It’s his fitness for office. On the single issue that is the biggest existential threat to humanity — climate change — Trump has denied science and pulled the United States out of a global accord with the potential to seriously address the perils of greenhouse gases warming the planet.
On the issue that is the biggest immediate threat to the United States, Trump denied the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic for months, declined to wear and promote masks early on to save lives and decided against mass-producing and stockpiling personal protective equipment as Americans died by the hundreds every day. His tweet early Friday announcing that he and his wife had contracted the virus was both stunning and unsurprising. Given his recent public rallies in which he appeared without a mask, and his unmasked news conference introducing his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, and his many other unmasked meetings with aides and visitors over the last week, the potential fallout of the president being a coronavirus transmitter is immense. And it was avoidable.
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