I support Joe Biden in 2024. There is no better candidate.

Let me state that the chief criticism of Biden is his age, which is 80 years old. Donald Trump is 77 years old. Mitch McConnell is 81 years old. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 75 years old. They all are putting in some very long work days and making vital decisions. Ed Meese, who recently helped former US Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Clark to remove Clark from state court, is 91 years old, and I have no doubt, with his decades of government experience including being Attorney General, provided excellent legal support to Clark.

I don’t worry about Joe. He may not be able to lift weights like Putin, but he definitely holds his own on the global stage.

Joe Biden has no serious opposition. Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Marianne Wilkerson are two announced candidates. Robert Kennedy is a weird blend of radical conspiracy public health issues and isolationist policies, like zero support for Ukraine. Marianne Wilkerson writes books on spiritualism. Kennedy and Wilkerson, are two off-the-wall candidates.

Now, the Republican candidates. Trump is the front runner by far, and this has me scared. He will return to the presidency with revenge in mind. The Director of the FBI won’t last a day, and Director Christopher Wray is his appointment. Of course, he detests the IRS, and will be pardoning every tax cheat, including himself, if he can. In fact, everyone Trump was working with in the last month of his term in office will be needing pardons. Do not vote for a twice impeached candidate who has been charged with 91 criminal counts. Your local criminal is probably more law-biding and honest than Trump.

If you are a die hard Republican, who else is there? Either Governor Asa Hutchison and Nikki Haley would be a well relief from the constant BS from the overblown Donald, and they have real government experience. I admit that I like Chris Christie but his polling numbers are way down. The rest, I hate to say this, but they are almost as bad as Trump.

I despise Ron DeSantis. He is forever on the attack. Yes, we have a drug problem in the US. A full blown invasion of Mexico isn’t the solution. Isn’t that why we are defending Ukraine, because their neighbor (Russia, I hope you know this) invaded them. DeSantis has picked fights with almost any organization in Florida, including Disney, public health, school curriculum and university programs, etc.

The rest are non-starters. See link below, breaking up the candidates into normalish, semi-normal and abnormal. The author gets to 3 candidates, by adding 1/2 Christie and 1/2 Burgum. I would consider Mike Pence normalish, except he accepted the vice presidency with Trump. A man with religion doesn’t do that!

Link: Normalish Candidates

Members of the off the wall gang include Robert Kennedy and Marianne Wilkerson on the Democrat side and Vivek Rameswany, Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis on the Republican side. The first three candidates have zero government experience. Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis are appealing to the most extreme faction of the Republican party.

So, I know many people do not like Joe Biden, but he is our best chance of working with other nations and making life better. The fires in California and in Maui, the terrible storm and floods in Derna, Libya and hurricane Idalia have one factor in common: Global Warming. Trump and the rest of the Republicans will do nothing to reduce carbon emission, because they know their base includes climate change deniers.

I am looking for problem solvers, not politicians. Global problems require global solutions. Putin is a threat to world stability. Same with North Korea and China. Stay with Joe.

Stay tuned,

Dave