Robert Kennedy, Jr. has never run for any office. I hope people do not vote for him. I’ve seen him several times on Fox News. I guess Fox believes he will pull votes away from Joe Biden.

He just seems always to go off the deep end on issues and would make a terrible president. He is an environmental activist, which I like. I don’t think he would be effective at reducing global carbon emissions, because this requires building coalitions with other countries. I don’t see him quietly negotiating agreements with other countries, as he is too much of a rogue adversary.

On so many issues, he gets off the tracks in big conspiracy themes. He is reckless. You can’t have a president who is constantly attacking government. In some ways, it is a bit like Trump, who would dismember the FBI and Justice Department, if he could. Kennedy would take action against the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, in his extreme viewpoint that they are colluding with “Big Pharma” and “Big Oil.” At the center of his conspiracy rants, is the big corporations have destroyed our institutions. From Wikipedia:

Kennedy has also stated that the American government is dominated by corporate power; he said the Environmental Protection Agency was run by the “oil industry, the coal industry and the pesticide industry”, and described the Food and Drug Administration as overly dominated by “Big Pharma”.[148]

I want a president who can identify what is wrong with our institutions, and improve them. Trump is hell bent on getting revenge on the Justice Department, while Kennedy would go after the EPA and FDA.

Global problems, like Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, North Korea’s aim to get nuclear weapons and climate change, require strong cooperation with our partners around the world. Kennedy is an isolationist in this regard.

An outspoken opponent of the military industry and foreign intervention, Kennedy was highly critical of the Iraq War as well as American support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion of the country.

Kennedy is an equal opportunity attacker of Republican and Democrats, President and Congress. Don’t waste your vote on him. We need realistic problem solvers. Of all the potential candidates, Joe Biden, is the only one who brings together a real team to pragmatically work with world leaders to solve global problems.

Kennedy is an extreme isolationist. He would have never supported Ukraine to defend themselves against Russia. Russia can not be allowed to redraw its boundaries one country at a time.

As I complete this post, a historical meeting between President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will take place in San Francisco. Biden will press Xi Jinping to join the US and world leaders in persuading the rogue countries like North Korea from sending weapons to Russia, to use in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The summit will be an opportunity for Biden to urge China to break their close alliance with Iran, because of their funding of Islamic terrorist organizations.

Neither Kennedy nor Trump (with 91 criminal charges against him) should be the US next president. They are big on words, but short on actual accomplishments.

Stay tuned,

Dave