We keep trying to reestablish the Iran Nuclear deal and yet, Iran is now sending drones to Russia to help them fight Ukrainians. How does that work? From what I understand, a reactivated nuclear deal has been deemed desirable because it would give Israel more time to prepare for an eventual confrontation with Iran. But why are they not ready now? All along there’s been the perception that Iran is determined to have their nuclear bomb. From the skies over Syria, Israel keeps bombing Iranian positions deemed hostile to their state. I have trouble believing that if a deal is struck with Iran, that they could be trusted with anything they agree to. Is the oil they produce worth all this effort? Are the sanctions now imposed on them having any effect, or are they getting around them? And if the nuclear deal is reactivated, aren’t billions of dollars expected to be paid to Iran as a form of compensation? Does it make sense to subsidize a state that is a Russian ally? I’m sure Ukrainians could put that money to better use. I believe that we and the West can live without Iran. Iran’s theocratic dictatorship will one day crumble from within and we will welcome them back to the community of nations, although it may take years for it to happen. It is very unlikely that anything we do will prevent the expected confrontation between Iran and Israel or between Iran and us in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians have chosen sides. They are with Russia and China and against us. To think otherwise is wishful thinking. Efforts have been made to bolster ties with Arab states in the region (Abraham Accords), started by the Trump administration. We should keep working on those. But the reactivation of the nuclear deal with Iran does not seem beneficial to us at all. President Biden, do take a moment to tell us why you’re keeping those talks alive. What are we missing? We need clarity.
You keep turning right politically. You keep mishandling the immigration issue. Granted, you’re right there, at the front of the problem. Immigrants from Africa keep coming to your shores, but there are ways to handle the problem. Immigration from less developed areas is the leading problem we face today. Technology has made the world smaller. People anywhere can see how much more there is elsewhere and they want to be part of it. They reason they live only once and so want the opportunities they are denied in their homelands because of their flawed political and economic institutions. Man was born in Africa. We’re all Africans. I am African. Advanced nations need to do more to assist the evolution of poorer nations, and thus help create conditions for those born there to commit to assist in their national betterment. Until then, the desperate will risk their lives in search of a better life. Until the needed structural changes come about in their homelands, we need to work with the immigrant. Limits need to be set, of course, and every nation has a right to do so, but show kindness and tolerance to the desperate knocking at your door and begging to be let in. Begging for respite. You are a creative nation. You gave us the Renaissance. The world knows of your enormous creative potential. Do not turn back on it. Exercise it. Let it shine fully. Come up with new solutions. I worry that your turning right politically is countering the creative energies you are capable of. I worry that some of your politicians have openly embraced Putin. I worry that you sympathize with a leader like Viktor Orban, in Hungary, who openly states his nation does not want diversity. Is that sensible to say in a world growing more and more diverse? Is that not being like the ostrich and burying your head in the sand? Dare to lead, Italy! Dare to embrace diversity and it will enrich you. Have faith in your capacity to adapt, to invent, to show the world the way we should go. Do not flinch from your responsibilities as a nation with such rich history. Sure, there was a time when you embraced fascism, but you evolved. Do not go back. You are a highly capable nation. Be true to your heritage. Meet the hard problems of our time. Choose leaders who value and promote independence of thought, who challenge you to use your brain, not to blindly follow them. Do not take your cue from leaders like Trump in America who has made every effort to turn off dialogue in our land. Rise, Italy, rise and dare to light up the torch of reason like you once did.
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PS: Do not do like Britain who, in one of their darkest moments, recently came up with a scheme to send unwelcome immigrants to Rwanda.
This is the time. I don’t think Putin would survive a defeat in Ukraine. Russia is a demoralized nation for when they compare themselves with the rest of the world they have to wonder, ‘how come we’re not among the leading countries?’ ‘How come people don’t want to come visit us?’ ‘Why doesn’t anyone want to immigrate to Russia?’ ‘What is missing?’ ‘How come, by contrast, people are risking their lives to immigrate to America?’ ‘If we can make sophisticated nuclear weapons, make vaccines, be one of the architects of the international space station, how come we make headlines only when we’re killing our neighbors? Or when we support brutal regimes like the Myanmar dictator?’ What is missing is political development. Putin has been allowed to arrest the political maturation of Russia. And he has done so by severely restricting the freedom of its citizens. By sheer brutality he has held back the historical advancement of his brothers and sisters. He’s got them hypnotized with the idea of a new Soviet Union, reclaiming a glory that was based on repression and cruelty. But it’s all wishful thinking. There’s no turning back. Next door, in Europe, a grand experiment in social understanding is taking place in the form of the European Union. Something similar could be happening in Russia. Instead, its citizens have opted to let one man, only one man, decide the fate of 125 million people. It is sheer madness. The courage of Ukrainians in fighting for their land has presented the world with a unique opportunity. Support Ukraine with all the weapons they need and Russia can be pushed back entirely out of Ukraine. Even out of Crimea which was annexed by Russia in 2014. A Russian defeat in Ukraine would stimulate the progressive section in the country that has not been fooled by Putin’s grandiosity. It should be clear that China has nothing to offer in terms of political development. Their people are also in chains, in their case to a Communist party that presents itself as the celestially ordained class of people with the wisdom to dictate to the rest of the nation on how things should be done. The price? Surrender your freedom. Surrender your ability to think. We, in the party, will do the thinking for you. In other words, the Chinese model offers nothing new, but more of the same the Russians have endured for years and years. The Western alliance should be more decisive in supporting Ukraine. A defeated Putin will spark a movement to depose him and the likelihood is that such movement will be more pro West than pro China. The consequences of such shift would be enormous for the prosperity of the word. A pro western shift in Russia would likely stimulate a pro western movement in China. And the world could see the beginning of a new era, not one driven by conflict but by cooperation. Imagine for a moment, the clout that Russia, the West and China would have working together to assist development in Africa or any impoverished region in the world? Instead of arguing over differences that are mostly their leaders’ personal preferences. Cult of personality is one of the most destructive forces in our world today. There is a nefarious cult of personality today in Russia, in the person of Putin, in China, in the person of Xi Jinping, in America in the person of Donald Trump. Cults of personality emerge in nations where the majority or a significant portion of the population ceases to think their own thoughts. The revolt against such tendency is essential to the freedom of mankind. Russians don’t need Putin, like Chinese don’t need Xi Jinping, like Americans don’t need Donald Trump. Nor their clones in the making. Human beings should not surrender under any circumstances. Each life should be a life long struggle to assert who we are, to express each person’s uniqueness.
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The Republican party has a steep uphill battle for the 2024 presidential elections. The footprint that Trump has left will be hard to erase. That’s how toxic it has been. The fact that Trump is still in the running for the nomination is baffling, but that’s clear evidence of how confused the party is. Immigration is the central issue. Trump seized on it to rally support but couldn’t come up with an answer to the problem. Immigration needs limits. Enforceable limits. We need borders and the means to sustain them. But we can’t do without immigration. The faction of the Republican party who wants to severely restrict immigration would cripple the nation if they had their say. It is true that we need to bolster the opportunities for advancement for Americans now in the lower earning rungs of our society, but we still need to keep open the doors for qualified immigrants to come to this country. This is our advantage over China and Russia. They are closed off to immigration. That is hurting them. The force that immigration is has a transformative effect on any nation. And it is overwhelmingly a positive one. Europe has been struggling with immigration for years and, to their credit, they’re still at it. China and Russia just choose not to deal with the problem. And it is their loss. Looking at the Republican field for the nomination for president, I see little to suggest that a Republican candidate can go up successfully against Biden, if he chooses to run, or another democratic candidate, say Harris or Newsom. Republican candidates are failing on the issues. Overturning Roe vs Wade will do little to invigorate the party. The majority of American women want to keep their right to choose. Had Trump been elected instead of Biden, Putin would by now have annexed Ukraine and invited Trump to the ceremonies. In the press conference that would have followed, Trump would have been asked by a reporter if he thought Putin had the right to take over Ukraine, and Trump would have said, ‘I don’t see why not, he was feeling encircled by NATO. We need to give him his space.’ And then Putin would have walked over and handed him a Cossack hat, as a tribute to his far reaching understanding of how the world works. And Trump would have put it on. Then said, ‘Look, Russia is a great country, and they need their space. By not arming the resistance in Ukraine we have saved many lives, and America’s closer ties with Russia will help us deal with the menace of China.’ Putin would have smiled and thought to himself, ‘We need to get this guy reelected a third term.’ Trump and freedom don’t mix. His legacy of obscurantism will last for some years. Still, there are enlightened sectors in the Republican party who might push forward a sane candidate to run against the democrats. I think that candidate would be John Kasich.
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It starts with the willingness to dissent. To be able to disagree, to oppose, to not go along with something you do not favor. It is a quality to be nurtured. It needs to be exercised because otherwise it shrinks and atrophies. And to allow that is to allow for our gradual devaluing. In our eyes and in the eyes of others. You can be born with that precious quality or work to acquire it. Having it makes life immensely satisfying for you have an essential tool to shape your life. There are different kinds of courage. Physical, intellectual, emotional. A physically strong person may be able to assert themselves in a physical confrontation but not so in an intellectual or emotional one, while an intellectually or emotionally strong person may not stand up for themselves satisfactorily in a physical confrontation. But what sits at the center of courage? What feeds it? Four things come to mind: A willingness to set limits, to say, ‘I have before me the option of this or that but at this stage of my knowledge I set my limits here.’ The willingness to take the initiative on matters leading to our betterment, personal or professional. The willingness to trust our intuition. And the steady exercise of all the above. Courage’s ever present companion is risk. Without risk there is no courage. They go hand in hand. Courage can be built, if there is the desire. And it is most desirable for it makes life richer and fruitful. Courage can be public or private. Every one of us, in our personal lives, is always being asked by life’s circumstances to exercise a measure of courage. Everyday life presents to us a challenge. Most of those demands are for private displays of courage. Sometimes, though, they are public. If we have been thinking and acting on the matter, then we’ll be in a better position to meet the challenge. And if we don’t, then we should learn from it, thus preparing for the next occasion which, unless we’re hiding under a rock, is sure to come our way. Life is unsparing in that sense. It loves to test us. To incessantly ask us, ‘are you learning from what I bring you every day, or are you sleep walking through it?’ Pay attention. Lives are better lived when there is courage. Of course, as in anything involving courage and risk, there is no guarantee of results. Every day could be our last one. But such is life. A word about group or national courage. Today we are witnessing a special moment. Ukraine has chosen to stand up against Putin’s aggression. It is a remarkable time in history. Thousands of men and women have lost their lives in defense of their land and their right to choose their destiny. Russians and others that stand with Putin, notably China, should be ashamed of their stance. The rest of us should not forget this. Political leaderships that silence dissent are a threat to all of us, even to those thousands of miles away. And just like Russians and Chinese gave in to their leaders, we should be on guard that it doesn’t happen in our land.
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This is the time. The time to break the chains that Putin has wrapped around your neck. You are not the nation you could be. You have the capabilities to stand as one of the first nations in the world, but you are not because to do so you need freedom, and freedom is not something Putin is willing to give you. Your leader is determined to enlarge his personal power, not the power of the rest of Russians. To do so he has chosen to invade Ukraine because they did not kneel before him. That is what you are doing, Russia, kneeling before Putin because you do not dare to raise your voice. You have gone so long without hearing your voice that you’ve forgotten what it sounds like. That happens in dictatorships. It is happening in your neighbor China, where Xi Jinping and his gang keep constant surveillance and restrictions on their citizens. They say that it’s in the interest of a greater future, when China will dominate the world. But freedoms restricted lead to impaired development in human beings. Russia, you need to get back your voice. The world needs you. You went for centuries under the foot of Czars, then under Stalin and those who followed. Only for a brief period, under Gorbachev, did you smell freedom, only to have it disappear under Putin. Think of the enormous role you could play in world history if you chose to turn West. You could choose whatever system of government you wanted. A system like the British have, or we here in America, or the French or the Germans or the Finns or the Swedes. But you would be free. Personally, I would be partial to a federal system of government that would make you the United States of Russia. And you would enrich the world with all your talent and resources. You would break out of the cultural isolation that Putin likes to keep you in because it suits his purposes. And by turning West, then China would have to moderate its plans for world domination because they would become impossible to achieve. This is the time to turn West. For your development, for your economic growth and the realization of your potential as a nation. Think for a moment of the cruelty that Putin has inflicted on Ukrainians and Russians. Sending them to their death because he has a dream of a larger Russia. But you are already large enough territorially. What you need is to unleash your talents, break out of you isolation and join the rest of the world fighting for democracy and the affirmation of human beings. Russia, the world needs you. This is the time to rise and retire Putin. Send him to his dacha for a permanent vacation. Russia deserves to be all it can be and the world will be better off for it. Just do it!
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Getting to know our emotional world well is a life long task. And it takes patience. But the benefits are vast. We have made and are making enormous progress in all branches of science and its applied disciplines and yet, by comparison, we are way behind in the understanding and processing of our emotions. We can build sophisticated weapons to destroy cities thousands of miles away, or satellites flying overhead. And yet, critical decision making can go wrong because of poorly managed emotions. There are efforts now underway to teach children about their emotional world while in school. And yet they have met with resistance. To not embark in the task of understanding ourselves is to severely limit our possibilities. In China, today, a regime has positioned itself into power by severely restricting its citizens’ emotional world. That’s what closed surveillance and limits on speech do. In Europe, Putin started a world because he felt threatened, he tells us. And he may well have but he had reason to be, for he had put severe restraints on what his citizens could and could not say or do. Any conversation we have treads on an emotional substrate. We feel pleased, not pleased or annoyed as the conversation proceeds, our emotions acting as the gauge that determines whether to continue or not, change tactic or switch topic. Given the central role of our emotions in our lives, we don’t treat them with the proper care. To enhance such care keeping a Diary may prove most helpful. This diary I suggest is not a document onto which notations need to be made every day. You make them when an idea, passing emotion or past incident catches your attention. What makes it unique is that it should be only for your eyes. No one should lay eyes on it. Not your spouse, your parents, your children, your God. It is only for you. Because it is only for you, you will be enticed to write down anything that comes to your mind, whether pleasing, shameful, cruel or absurd. And that is the start of the journey into your mind. (This idea has been around for a long time, in various forms) Having made a notation you can then return to it at your convenience, sit with the content and try to explain it to yourself. ‘Why am I ashamed of what I did? Did I lie? Did I take advantage of someone? Did I injure the person? Was I disloyal? Was I ungrateful? Was I petty? Was I violent? Why didn’t I behave differently?’ The behavior noted, it is then up to you to seek to understand it. One thought will trigger another. And once you start, the journey never ends. But such is the nature of emotions. You do the work at your own pace, when you find the time and inclination. You’ll know if you’re avoiding the work. You should be alone when you tend to your diary. Let your mind wander and make additional notes if you wish. The point is to review the matter, to turn it around, to look at it from different perspectives. You may or may not find it healing at first or find you’re not able to tolerate the emotion the notation has taken you to. If so, then you pause until you can review it again. If the emotions aroused prove to be difficult to manage, then get assistance. But for most people, the mind has protective devices that lead you to areas it thinks you are able to manage. Self knowledge is priceless. It lets us learn from our mistakes and helps us make better choices. Some will say that this diary is not for everybody. I say it is. That’s why only you gets to read it. You’re not competing with anyone but yourself. Understanding your emotions will keep you from being ruled by them. One other thing. You will learn soon enough, that to make progress you must forgive yourself. And others too. A Diary that is nurtured and cared for, will help you walk on firmer ground, and the fog ahead you didn’t think was there, will start to lift.
Good luck.
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To have a center as a person, is to be doing something you enjoy, and that something makes you feel stronger and wiser. Having a center lets you manage your envy, accept that others have more than you do, if they do, and you don’t get rattled by it. You can say to yourself, ‘I have my power, they have theirs.’ If you perceive that you could be doing better at what you enjoy, then you double up on your efforts. That’s where ambition kicks in, a topic for another day. We can tolerate periods when we are not doing what we would most like to do, but the search for what is most desirable for us to do shouldn’t stop. A sense of reality is essential to temper expectations. If you want to be a famous anything and you’re not even working in that field, then that’s daydreaming. If you want to be in music and you don’t have a good ear, then that’s a tough hurdle to overcome. I suppose you could write songs. If you want to be an engineer or physicist, you have to be good at math. If you want to be a carpenter, you have to have good manual dexterity. So how do we discover what we enjoy? Sounds like a silly question but it’s important to ask. It takes freedom to follow your intuitions. Freedom and courage. Here’s where the task of parenting comes in. Providing such freedom. The courage part is up to you. Some years ago I had a dentist who had excellent manual dexterity. I noticed it right away and commented on it. There was a grace and fluidity to his movements. He’d always known it but hadn’t owned it. At university, he had been chosen to do demonstration videos, such was his skill. He went on to do other things in life for many years, until it became clear that what he most wanted to do was work with his hands exclusively. So one day he chose to quit dentistry and become a carpenter. It had been a hobby of his but now he wanted to do it full time. ‘That’s what I want to do,’ he said to me with proud assurance. He was probably in his late 50s or early 60s by then, but he still had time. All those years he had been searching for his center and finally had found it. I asked him if his father, who had been a dentist also, had ever commented on his excellent manual dexterity. He answered that the man had not. Which points up one of the essential tasks of parenting, identifying in their children what seems their most obvious talent. It doesn’t take a whole lot. All the parent has to do is pay attention to their child as he or she unfolds. The child may not know they have a talent. It takes an observant parent or interested adult to point it out. In doing so they validate it. Not long ago, another person I know commented on one of her children’s career choice. She added that she thought he’d do well because he was strong in math. In this instance, that critical interaction had taken place. The parent had conveyed to the child, ‘You have that. I see it. It’s up to you to do what you wish with it, but it’s there for you.’ Of course, there are instances when the talent of the child is so clear that it’s apparent to all. But those are the exceptions. Having a sense that one has a center is critical in daily interactions. There are lots of people in this world without a sense of purpose, drifting here and there, doing what they can to make ends meet, but not animated by a focus in life. Those are grounds for apathy, resentment and envy. Without a focus in life managing envy becomes harder to do and managing envy in life is a fundamental task. With a sense that one has a center, one is more tolerant of imperfections, our own and that of others. It leads to patience and kindness. When two people are attracted to each other, one may have a center and the other not. But centeredness cannot just be transferred, it is acquired by each individual. What a centered lover in a relationship with a not centered partner can do, is say, ‘this is what I perceive your gifts to be.’ And it’s up to the person to accept the feedback, work with it or not. But it is important to do so, for, in a couple, the non centered party will tend to suffer the most when a breakup occurs. And now to politics. Are there politicians more centered than others? Of course. Compare Trump and Biden. Since I don’t know them personally I can only judge them by their actions. Trump is not a centered person whereas Biden is. Why is Trump not a centered person? Because he cannot manage his envy. From this distant point, I ask, is Putin a centered man? He can’t be. A man so committed to depriving others of their freedom cannot be a centered man. His actions are motivated by envy. That is a central driving force in his invasion of Ukraine. Putin has not been able to lead Russia’s transformation into a first rate nation even though the country clearly has such capability. A free Ukraine would stand as a model for Russians to emulate, like West Germany was to East Germany after WWII, and the yearnings for freedom that would flourish from such contrast, would lead to the further fragmentation of what we today call Russia. Putin could not handle that.
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He’s sitting at his desk in his office in Beijing. He’s going through reports of his subordinates’ performance. Some are as loyal as he wants them to be, some not so much. The latter are put on the heap for reassignment, i.e. demotion.
News of Nancy Pelosi’s (Speaker of the US House of Representatives) plane arriving in Taiwan flashes on a large screen on a wall across. He smiles. ‘Beautiful.’ He pauses as he takes in the landing of the plane, the sight of the welcoming committee waiting on the tarmac. ‘The more Americans challenge me on Taiwan, the more I can keep my people furious about their interfering with our sovereignty and the more they will accept the restrictions I impose on their freedoms. Freedom should be reserved for the leadership, the very accomplished and faithful to the ideas of the party. Freedom in the hands of regular people leads to chaos, like in the West, where freedom got Trump to be elected. And where they may elect him again.’ He laughs. ‘But what really gets my people to tolerate the harshest of restrictions on their liberties is the promise that one day soon, we will make our move for world dominance. And we’ll have Americans queuing up to learn Mandarin. Won’t that be a beautiful sight? I can’t wait.’
A voice through a speaker on his desk interrupts.
Speaker phone – Chairman, the cyberattack committee wanted to go ahead with targeting the list of American and English companies they sent you this morning. Have you had a chance to go through it? ‘I have. Leave company D out for now but proceed with the rest. We need their technology.’ Speaker phone – Indeed, Mr Chairman. ‘Thank you.’
He grows silent, a hint of worry on his furrowed brow.
‘That drone attack that killed the Al Qaeda leader in the center of Kabul has got me worried. I don’t think the Americans would ever try that on me. We would fire missiles immediately on them… but so would they on us. In the confusion, would Russians jump in, too?’
He returns to his papers, assessing the loyalty of his subordinates.
He pauses again.
‘Western businesses have been very good for us… and our forcing the transfer of technology has been essential to what we have become in so short a time. But they are growing more distrustful. Which is why we’re trying to extend our influence over other nations… but the idea of freedom keeps coming up. It’s hard to squash it, snuff it out, like we’re doing here in China. Maybe the Chinese are more pliant… more willing to tolerate structure… and surrender their personal dreams in the interest of the nation. That is what we’re banking on to build the new Chinese Empire. The pliant quality of Chinese citizens, willing to work hard for the good of the party and the nation, and willing to surrender their personal ambitions. In the meantime, I get to extend my rule… until I die… like Mao did. Oh, to die in power… what a wonderful idea. The whole nation grieving for me. The thought of it brings tears to my eyes.’
He dabs his moistened eyes.
‘And now this war in Ukraine. When will it end? Putin acts like he’s going to win… but it’s starting to look like he’s not. The West has got bolder… now committing to sending in fighter jets. And the Russian military may want a change in leadership… which may align with us or not. New leadership aligning with the West would be disastrous for us… which is an argument to assist Russia win the war… but if I do… western markets may close off to us. They’ve warned us, Biden has. Anyway, we’ve bought enough Russian oil. Putin should be bolder… send in a team to kidnap Zelensky… take him to Moscow and try him for crimes against humanity. I fear he’s running out of time. He may ask us for more drones, to attack Zelensky in Kyiv, like the Americans did in Kabul… but if one of our drones hit Zelensky… that would be a problem.’
He closes his eyes for a moment.
‘But I don’t trust Putin. Sooner or later, he’ll remind me that he has more nuclear weapons than I have… I know that’s coming. But what I admire in him is how he’s domesticated his people to do as he pleases. I should learn from him. And how he persuaded Donald Trump that he had nothing to do with interfering in America’s elections. That was beautiful to see.’
He returns to his paperwork, sorting out the most loyal from the less loyal.
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There are those who criticize him just because of his age. Those who do are envious of the man. For there he is, at 79, leading our nation and doing it well. The skeptics think he won’t last, that he is on the verge of falling apart any moment. But he keeps proving them wrong. Talk has begun about whether he should run again when his term is up. Born on Nov 20 1942, he would be 82 if he were to start a second term. Is that too old to be president? Why not wait for Biden, himself, to tell us? We all age differently, and given his stellar performance, he’s earned the right to tell us whether he feels up to running again. Biden should be judged on his record, not on his age. A man in his position is being scrutinized constantly. We should trust that his team, all those around him, including Jill Biden, would be the first to notice instances of dysfunction that would affect his judgment. Would that team, in the interest of preserving their jobs, be inclined to cover up signs of dysfunction? It’s possible but I don’t think likely. There are two reasons for that: One, that the team is aware of the responsibility to the nation and two, with the public exposure presidents have, any deficit would be hard to hide. Biden is a little over a year and a half into his term. Who’s to say that he won’t become more and more effective as time goes on, with all of us benefitting? He has earned the respect of world leaders for his admirable leadership of the western alliance in confronting Putin. That ordeal is far from over and I don’t doubt that, if he remains in good health, he will continue to deal effectively with whatever comes his way. If we trust his integrity, as I do, why wouldn’t he, or his wife, be the first to tell us, ‘I don’t think I’m up for the job anymore. Thank you for the privilege of leading our nation, but I now must let another person take over.’ Joe Biden would do that. You either believe it or not. I do. As a nation we stand to gain a great deal by trusting that some men have the maturity and wisdom to know their limitations. We are watching, of course, as we should. The more we see of Biden governing, the more glaring the difference with his predecessor. Which is why I think that, as sanity returns to the Republican party, the more remote becomes the possibility that Trump will be nominated again. And Biden would more than stand his ground against any other Republican candidate, man or woman, young or old. Age should not keep us from having Biden run again. Our gauge should be his performance. On that count, he is paving the way for his reelection. In any event, should he choose not to run, for whatever reason, the party has plenty talent ready to step up.
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