We need to restore sanity to America,
We must have a president who will not shirk from confronting a foreign leader,
A president who is not preoccupied with every criticism that is made of him and who can think before he tweets,
We need a president who is comfortable with thinking and reflecting,
Who is open to having the best people around him, regardless of what party they’re affiliated with,
We must have a president who can hear a dissenting view,
A person who values independent thought, men and women who can stand on their own and choose to serve the nation out of a sense of patriotism rather than personal gain, men and women who’re not quick to say, ‘yes, mr president, of course you’re right, sir, absolutely right, you’re the greatest, the most wonderful human being I’ve ever met,’
We need a leader with the courage to address the nation in the face of abject cruelty, as when George Floyd was murdered in public view, and then step out and denounce the abuse of power and stand and grieve with the rest of us,
We need a leader who believes in science, who doesn’t feel diminished because he has to wear a mask,
We must have a leader who doesn’t lie to us, repeatedly, shamelessly,
A president with the courage to not blame China for the enormous losses of life we’ve suffered and who not once has said he takes responsibility for any of it.
In his view, whatever he does, is a masterful move.
We need Biden because he’s committed to bringing women to the center of our political world,
Women, who in this land of the free, have not been elected to the presidency or vice presidency in 231 years, yet all the while they’ve been nurturing men, educating, strengthening, helping to guide us, inspiring and comforting us, and we have the gall to turn around and deny them the right to control their bodies and to not think they are fit to lead.
We need Biden because in bringing women to power, he opens the door for them to govern the nation for the next 50 consecutive years, at least, and so make it possible to have racial and gender equality in our land.
Men simply could not do the job and need to move aside and let women do it.
We need Biden to reach out to the president’s supporters and remind them that we must sit down and have a dialogue,
We need Biden, who will tell the president’s supporters that they are essential in the struggle to improve our nation,
We need Biden
To remind us of our true powers, and that this is not the time to step back from acting with concern for the plight of the downtrodden anywhere in the world, for their suffering is ours too. Embrace it and we will embrace our own, and as we do brighten the flame of hope that has always lived in our hearts and minds.
So, go Joe, go Kamala,
Fight for our land as you know how,
And let not the winds of hatred and envy blight our future
Oscar Valdes oscarvaldes.net oscarvaldes@widehumr
Oscar Valdes 