President Trump versus Vice President
Biden, a disappointing decision for American
voters
By Jerry Davich
July 20, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Joe Biden is
like an old shoe in your closet. He’s
familiar, worn-in and comfortable, but will
he still be intact after a four-year walk
through hell.
Biden’s campaign platform essentially
comes down to this stump speech: “Fellow
Americans, I’m not President Donald
Trump, I used to be Vice President of
this country, and former President Barack Obama
still supports me.” Biden has the
audacity to hope this will be enough to get him
back in the White House.
A vote for Biden in November is a vote
against Trump, similar to how Trump got elected
into office in 2016. Remember how tens of
millions of Americans voted for anyone but
Hillary Clinton, even if that opposing candidate
was a pompous, clueless reality TV star who
embodied the worst version of America. Biden,
the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,
will have the same status-quo backlash in his
favor in November, when he turns 78.
Yeah, Biden’s age also is a factor to
me. Trump’s age (74), too. Call me biased or
prejudiced. Call it ageism. I call ‘em like I
see ‘em. Their age is a legitimate factor in my
judgment how both will serve as president for
the next four years. This is why Biden’s choice
of running mate is so crucial to our country’s
future.
In a nation of 350 million people,
these are the two Americans we’re stuck with
for president on Election Day – Trump versus
Biden? When I mentioned this disappointing
appraisal in a previous column, readers from
both camps took offense.
“Trump is everything this country needs
right now,” wrote Amy F. of Merrillville. “How
dare you call him disappointing.”
Trump has been disappointing since he
began seriously campaigning for president before
the 2016 election. I also find it disappointing
that he has stated more outright, ridiculous
lies than any president before him. Not only
expected, predictable, political lies, such as
he cares about all Americans. But lies that are
even beneath a 6-year-old boy with crumbs on his
face who insists he didn’t eat that pie in the
window.
Trump kicks sand in our faces and
blames the wind. His arrogance convinces him
that his beached supporters won’t care as long
as the sand doesn’t hit them directly in the
face. If they have to brush off some of his
sins, they’ll dutifully do it, blaming his
critics for noticing.
Trump has created a delusional version
of America. Too many Americans have bought into
his delusion, labeling factual news as fake
news. If it wasn’t labeled as such, it would
mean Trump is a habitual liar. No one wants to
vote for such a loser.
Trump uses feigned outrage to rally his
supporters, then uses supporters to rally
genuine outrage. He treats facts like beliefs.
If you disagree with his, yours are wrong.
“Honest work was never demanded of him,
and no matter how badly he failed, he was
rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable,”
writes Mary Trump, the daughter of the
president’s eldest brother, Fred, in her new
book.
The book, “Too Much and Never Enough,”
is scheduled to be published July 14, two weeks
earlier than originally planned because of what
the publisher describes as intense demand. On
Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times obtained a copy.
President Trump is the product of a
deeply dysfunctional family that makes him a
uniquely destructive and unstable leader for the
country, his niece writes in her book.
“He continues to be protected from his
own disasters in the White House. But now the
stakes are far higher than they’ve ever been
before; they are literally life and death.
Unlike any previous time in his life, Donald’s
failings cannot be hidden or ignored because
they threaten us all,” she writes.
Truth be told (a phrase never
attributed to Trump), anyone’s niece could have
written this published indictment against our
president. He’s still being rewarded for his
obvious failings. Obvious to most Americans
who’ll vote for anyone but him. While bicycling
through Valparaiso I pedaled past a red, white
and true campaign sign stating, “For the love of
God… ANYONE BUT TRUMP, 2020.” I had to stop and
take a photo of it.
“I would cast a vote for my long
deceased beloved cat before I would ever vote
for Donald Trump or any of his fans or
enablers,” a female voter from Hobart told me
after reading about my disappointment with both
candidates.
“Joe can be the intelligent, comforting
unifying voice the country so sadly needs,” she
told me. “His track record and life experiences
speak to that. I do not (care) if he fumbles the
English language at times. It speaks volumes
that when Biden, who does live with lifelong
stuttering, trips on a word, it’s the first
thing people bring up.”
Biden has been a capable public servant
through the decades. He has also been
conspicuously quiet these past few weeks, a
smart move for a consummate politician who too
often publicly says things that maybe he
shouldn’t.
Eventually, as the general election
nears, Biden will have to come out of the
shadows of Trump’s failings and take on the
president face to face. It won’t be pretty. It
won’t reflect the best version of America. It
will be a verbal fistfight that will feel like
it could break out into a physical fistfight on
the national stage.
Biden’s campaign website repeatedly refers
to him as “Joe” to amplify his Regular Joe image
that he will need to defeat Trump, an elitist
who has no idea what it’s like to be regular or
average. “Joe starts a family… Joe speaks up for
marriage equality... Joe sticks up for the
little guy – and never stops.”
A vote for Joe will be a vote for
someone who just happens to fit comfortably in
the shoes of an American ideal that’s been
kicked to the back of our closet.
Jerry Davich. Jerry’s career began in 1995 as a
political cartoonist and columnist, writing thousands of
stories, each with the focus of shining a light on
society’s darkest corners, or provoking unpopular
conversations, or offering a voice to the voiceless.
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