Instead of the soaring oratory of a cult rousing Trump, Biden gets slammed for being old and sounding like it. No matter what he does, Biden gets no credit for what he has accomplished, from soaring GDP and jobs, jobs, jobs while lowering the deficit, too.. How can he counter the "old and feeble" charge? The way to do it is to begin a campaign that wisdom and experience are worth more than the lying and chest beating of political demagogues of any age who come late to the foreign affairs table or have self-interested agendas of increasing their net worth and accumulating absolute power of an autocrat, like Trump.
There is another attribute of Biden's character that gets overlooked: Moral clarity. No where has that been expressed more obviously than his outrage at the atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine and his accusing Putin of being a war criminal for targeting civilians as part of their war strategy. This is in stark contrast with someone like Donald Trump who still will not criticize Putin and even dares ask Putin for a political favor last month as war atrocities Ukraine were reported. That is a person with no moral compas. From the beginning of his 2016 campaign, Trump touted his advantages of being transactional in his dealings because of his business success . Transactional to Trump has meant he will do what benefits him politically and ergo it will benefit those loyal to him. Morality is not a criteria for what is a successful transaction. Lying to explain failures is simply a strategy, not a moral no-no. Knowing lying about his loss in 2020 yet claiming his loss was because 'Democrats stole the election, even though courts and his own attorney general told him otherwise. He still sings that same tune, though after a year and a half of audits, all kinds of investigative journalism, still no evidence has emerged that there was enough hanky panky in the election to prove it was stolen, yet Trump persists. . Biden's years of experience gave him wisdom as a Senator heading foreign affairs committees, as vice-president, and that counts for more than a fiery tongue president who used his skills to gin up white nationalism, subverting and weakening NATO, and licking boots of Putin. an acute adversary of our national security interests.. No one in political leadership has had more experience of dealing with Putin than Joe Biden. He is the right man for the Ukraine crisis . So let's hear it for wisdom, judgement, and morality as an offset to a lack of podium skills. Those with wisdom like Joe Biden have gotten where they are by having been there, done that, and knowing evil when they see it. /
As years as a Senator, Biden is also not ignorant of domestic issues, either, but the GOP is playing on the ignorance of Americans to place blame on Biden for the prices at the pump and inflation.. Biden has only marginal control of gas prices; the bulk is in the hands of international oil cartels who decrease drilling to line their pockets and create artificial shortages to manipulate that commodity market. Biden can influence some margins of per barrel prices, and he just increased supply by releasing the largest dump of strategic oil reserves in history into the market and penalizes those with well drilling permits who have not drilled. We will hear more of this in the next couple of weeks in an attempt to educate Americans about who is to blame.
The only power in the US that can control inflation is the Federal Reserve. They have the only weapon to combat it with increasing interest rates ,which they are now gradually doing . It is not Biden. but who sits on that board...unchanged since the Trump era.
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