Joe Biden

Joe Biden is likely to strike out awkwardly in debate and not get elected. But for now he seems to be winning a nomination. I ask myself if I can vote for him.

I can vote for Biden if two things happen.

1. Anita Hill endorses him.

2. We face an overwhelming issue, global warming, which has the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people--and it is our fault. The only chance we have to mitigate this horror is to get off of fossil fuels. But the fossil fuel industry owns many of our major politicians, and they own Biden from the tips of his polished shoes to the top of his hair implants. To get my vote he will have to renounce that lifelong allegiance.

Note: You may have seen the clip of Biden on stage confusing his wife and his sister. But that's not exactly what happened. (Biden won South Carolina but did not marry there.) The truth is that Biden is old, like me, and easily distracted. His mind wanders. He's not nuts. He just forgot who was standing where because he'd drifted into a reverie about lemon popsicles or whatever. You must expect that to happen fifty times a day in the Oval Office. (Mental impairment has become traditional: see Nixon, paranoid; Ford, stupid; Reagan, senile;Young Bush, dimwit, tRump, personality disorder.)