We should have seen this coming
Date: April 13, 2020 at 7:24:17 PM EDT
Subject: The presidents briefing
I just finished watching the today’s presidents daily briefing. I couldn’t make it until the end. Simply put, the daily briefing is a horrible, embarrassing self defense and completely lacks two critical qualities
1. Clear guidance to the people about what to expect and how we can best take care of ourselves and loved ones. Instead, he rattles off accomplishments, even phoney ones.
2. When concerns or criticisms arise, he attacks those who bring them forth. He calls them fake or disgraceful.
He is the most self possessed, defensive public figure I have ever known in this country. He sets the tone of a junior high school bully. He does not tell the truth or care about us when we most need it.
The briefings have become a horror show. It is worse than watching a traffic accident. In a traffic accident there are innocent victims and we engage in a dark curiosity about what may have happened. Now we are the victims in the accident and we watch the most insensitive person drive by us. He drives by and doesn’t slow down, care about us at all. Instead, he drives on, slavishly devoted to his own journey to re-election.
He has been a principal contributor to the dilemma in which we find ourselves. He has blood on his hands; more people have died and live in fear because of him. Period. There is no possibility ever of him admitting it in the slightest degree. Instead he blames the fake news and the radical Democrats. He is the opposite of what we should be having in our leader. He knows how to exercise power only to get what he wants. He knows nothing about what real people need and how to govern to give those people what they need.
I could go on. Suffice to say I am very sad and angry that our country ever gave him the opportunity to be our president, that we have a system that enabled him to be elected. I am somewhere beyond furious at his hideous disregard for honesty and the utter lack of compassion and insight that he should be showing us.
But there is only one way out of this morass. Everybody votes. Make it easy to vote and punish those who make it hard. No more third-party candidates. Vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.