Opinion/Editorial
DO NOT FORSAKE ME, OH MY DARLING
Sometimes, but not always, national political spectacle overcomes almost every media story in every media genre or venue, as the emotion expressed across the air and print waves of overflowing data strike the community like the first great wave of a tsunami. And so, it is with the results pouring in and across the air and print waves concerning the first of the presidential ‘debates,’ which aren’t debates at all.
The after-effect of that debate has been interpreted by every member of the media who can get either air, Internet, or paper time and exposure. Almost all commentators, left, right, and the very few in between, see the weak portrayal and response to the other candidates’ verbal and physical antics as a reason to dump the prime leading candidate for president in favor of…nobody. Biden has over a billion dollars collected through his term in office to put toward his re-election effort. That money would not be transferred to another candidate if there was one. Biden has over 300 offices set up to campaign in all of the states and those would not convert over to another candidate either, if there was one. Finally, Biden is on all the ballots of all the states while another candidate, if there was one, would never get on all the ballots in time for the election coming.
There is no question that Biden showed weakness and confusion as he tried to face into a set-up situation his staff should have been prepared to deal with but was not. His podium was angled so he did not look into the camera doing the frontal filming. His opponent physically failed to control his bowels through the whole ordeal, the sounds of that reaching the live microphones in the background. But still, Biden showed weakness. The surprising thing is the number of former supposed supporters who immediately came forward to call for his outright resignation, in favor of finding someone else to be the candidate, although all of those supposed supporters know that such a thing is no longer effectively possible. Doing such a thing would concede the election to the other candidate.
Meanwhile, the other candidate aside from his display of physical infirmities, declared on national television to fifty million viewers that “democrats are in favor of having ‘after birth’ abortions performed.” The enormity of stating such an awful and idiotic portrayal of the opposition was and remains completely overlooked by the mass media in all of its iterations. After birth, abortion would be considered murder in every state and federally if it was ever performed. Americans, and nobody else within the boundaries of the USA gets to kill living babies without being charged with murder. Nobody. Later the next day, that same candidate indicated at a rally that he was not a supporter of electric airplanes because of the problems of cloud cover or nighttime causing the planes to crash because their batteries would not be powered by the sun. The comments by the opposing candidate to Biden are almost such insane comments politely and rapidly ignored by the mass media unless mentioned by Jon Stewart or Rachel Maddow on their infrequent short television shows, and then usually in humor. But none of this is funny.
The United States, nor any other country or social entity on the planet has never had more power. The U.S. economy is over one-fourth of the economy of all other 194 countries on the planet put together, and that includes China. The U.S. has over six hundred military bases operating around the world and five hundred, or so operating inside U.S. borders. The rest of the world put together has 187 in and outside borders. The U.S. has 11 nuclear carrier fleets with nuclear submarines and support ships. The rest of the world’s countries combined had zero…as in ‘nonoperational.’ The U.S. has a complete inventory of re-enriched nuclear weapons of all types with all kinds of delivery systems while most other nuclear countries have their inventories depleted of weapons-grade uranium or plutonium. (it costs billions to re-enrich inventories every ten years or so!). The U.S. is the number one producer of oil in the world, by a large number. The current president of the country has very ably continued the domination of all other cultures on the planet and should be given credit for some of the continuance and some of the advances
The Supreme Court has seen fit to allow past and future presidents to have immunity from all criminal activity while performing their governmental duties, those duties deemed to be governmental by them. It is incumbent upon the public to be very discerning when it comes to who is chosen to be that nearly dictatorially powerful person. Although the current president has shown some weakness brought on by advancing age, the alternative, with only four months to the next election is not someone who seems to exhibit any kind of restraint when it comes to resolving crisis or going after anyone who violently opposes him. This is not the time to desert the current leader of the free world.
