Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump gave a debate performance that was worthy of consideration for the highest office in our land.
Biden, despite his impeccable service record and political career and his many accomplishments as president in his first four years, demonstrated the very frailty of age that he was seeking to shed in this debate — finding himself unable to avoid stumbling in his remarks and incapable of expressing his thoughts in comprehensible sentences.
Trump, on the other hand, proved that he is the same old pathological-narcissistic personality that he always has been, spreading only lies and falsehoods in his entire remarks, while seeking to conceal his power-grasping agenda — and seeking to conceal the humbling truth that he is a bigot and a twice-impeached former president with a criminal record.
Ideally, both candidates should step aside at their respective conventions in order to allow Americans a different choice. That is unlikely, however, so we need to consider the candidates that we have and measure them according to their actual accomplishments and character.
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There is the old adage ascribed to Lincoln: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time. My only hope is that the American people, when they go to the polls this November, will not play the role of the fool who is fooled.
Michael Hoy
St. Louis
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