Celebrating the Fourth was difficult this year as our country is uprooted by Donald Trump and his radical MAGA party.
Half the country appears to support a vision of America that I never thought was possible. Tipping the scales to help democracy keeps getting harder.
Time is fleeting. Democrats are busy evaluating President Joe Biden, 81, over his bad performance in a debate with a convicted felon and serial liar. People were more concerned about Joe’s appearance and his seeming incoherence (it was not pretty) than Trump’s untruths.
It has become an Achilles Heel for Democrats. They stop dead in their tracks to solve a problem they had three-and-a-half years ago, when Biden pulled us across the finish line to defeat Trump.
It’s time to quickly support the winning ticket of 2020 instead of deliberating a new strategy.
Biden is a fighter. His record is more important than a reality show. He needs a makeup person, not a study group. Little things can blur the big picture. I beg our whining Democrats and Independents to unify before it’s too late.
Linda Gefen, Boca Raton
Biden’s patriotic duty
Wake up and smell the coffee, Joe.
Your pitiful and embarrassing debate performance should encourage you to step down and allow a formidable nominee to oppose Donald Trump, whom you have called our nation’s greatest threat to democracy.
If you are deeply concerned for the American people, it’s your patriotic duty to give us a viable alternative to this danger. There is a limit that party loyalty can be relied on after the truth of your inability to lead us becomes clear.
To recall John Kennedy’s words: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
It is difficult but the time has come. Show real courage and step down, before you wind up electing Trump.
Len Axelrod, Boynton Beach
Too easy on Trump
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash have handed Trump the keys to the White House. Where were the debate rules that applied to answering their questions? They allowed Trump to respond with lies and innuendoes.
They brought up food prices, which I doubt any President can do anything about. I was born in 1942 when a loaf of bread was 19 cents but I still buy one for 99 cents at Aldi’s or Walmart. Prices go up — it’s a fact of life.
What about the stock market reaching record heights, or that gas prices and inflation have gone down?
The moderators never demanded that Trump answer questions posed to him.
I hope CNN is not moderating a second debate, if there is one. (I live in Palm Beach County, home to two moronic U.S. senators, an idiotic governor and a convicted felon running for president).
Rosanne Gordon, Boca Raton
Hang in there, Mr. President
It seems that the disgraced, serial liar, twice impeached, sexual molester, fraudster, election denier, insurrectionist can have supporters stick with him no matter what. Joe Biden has had one bad debate performance, and we should disregard him and demand another candidate?
Biden has done more for the country than the orange man. I’ll take a good old man over a old con man any day!
Hang in there Joe. I believe that in the end, the American people will do the right thing, just like last time.
Michael Di Domenico, Coconut Creek
Change the theme music
It looks like the Democratic Party realizes it has dug itself a hole from the debate. Maybe they should change their theme song before their convention. I would suggest “Send in the Clowns” or “The Party’s Over.”
Dane Hancock, P.E., Fort Lauderdale
