Donald Trump is the worst candidate for the 2024 Presidential election. His former Defense Secretary Mark Esper called him a “threat to democracy.” His former national security advisor John Bolton declared him “unfit to be president” and his former Vice President Mike Pence has failed to endorse him, citing “profound differences.” Other former aids testified against him before the Congressional January 6 committee warning of the threat he posed to the nation if he is re-elected to the White House.
Yet, Trump is not the one that is being abandoned by his supporters, after telling over 28 lies during the Presidential debate with Biden on Thursday, June 27, 2024. It is President Joe Biden, the embattled democratic nominee running for re-election because of his lack luster performance that caused Americans to wondering about his mental acuity and intellectual fitness to continue as President of the United States. It appears that the robust distortions inflicted by FOX News and its conservative cohorts for the past three and half years has done much to stifle his stellar record of accomplishments during his presidency by insinuating that he is too old and mentally challenged. It is truly difficult to understand but these days perception IS reality.
But let’s consider some real facts for a moment. Do debates really measure the true test of a president? Do they in any way assess what a president does when making decisions and how a president functions in his/her regular duties and responsibilities in the White house. When a crisis occurs and when serious challenges arise and decisions are made, do presidents swing into debate mode to arrive at a solution? The plain realistic answer is no. This kind of banter has no semblance with reality.
Reality would follow a much more measured, ordered, sensible process. The modern president functions with a host of support staff with seasoned government professionals, personal advisors, aids, experts, intelligence personnel and experienced counselors that would give him/her the most exhaustive and specialized analysis and information from all sides and all angles of any situation that they would need to address when he/she is challenged to make a decision. The president would not be involved or required to make some split second, off the cuff, two minute debate answer.
The real issue is, why are debates used to determine ones fitness for the office of the presidency when it does not properly measure ones fitness for the office? A president is not a debater, a president is a decision-maker. A president is a coalition-builder. A president is someone that is called to make generation-changing decisions for the future destiny of the world. Someone whose philosophies, ideologies and decisions can be responsible for sending America’s children and grandchildren into harms way to defend our nation and its allies.
What we need to know is, does the person that is called to assess, process, analyze, and assimilate that information as president have the moral fitness, the character, the principles, the ethics, the experience, the mental fortitude, the will, the competence, the courage and the decency of his/her convictions to be trusted to make these ultimate decisions in the best interests of the United States of America and not themselves. Can and will that person put America first and not themselves or their own best interests. Do you believe that when that person makes the ultimate life and death decisions that can change the course of human history for generations to come, they can be trusted with such responsibilities. Will they remember that if they must send our sons and daughters into harms way to defend and protect the interests of our nation and/or our allies they will view our children as precious as their own. These are the real questions that one must weigh in evaluating the person they are selecting to be President of the United States of America.
As you examine the choice between the two candidates, who do you trust to make that decision? And that is the discussion that the democratic party should have the nation engaged in.
The great flaw and failure of the democrats is their inability to shape and control the narrative. Too often they allow the media, the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump, a convicted felon, to control the narrative. What is wrong with them? Why are they so fickled and so weak—kneed.
They must seize the opportunity, change the narrative, unite behind their candidate Joe Biden and explain that debates do not determine or define the office of the presidency; decision—making does. They should argue, who is the best decision maker between the two candidates, Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
Joe Biden, the one that was able to build bipartisan coalitions and pass all of the legislation he has enacted in the past 3 1/2 years or Donald Trump, the divider, the adulterer, the convicted felon, the January 6 insurrectionist, and the twice impeached president, which?
The democrats need to wake up and change the narrative before the nation forgets what presidents really do and what presidential elections are really about. And you need to wake up as well.
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