Trump's firings of the IGs should have remained in the headlines, but Trump always finds a way to distract the news away from his scandals.
So we have a president that is unfit for office, but we have a flawed challenger in Joe Biden. Joe's stuttering problem is coming back and it is hard for us to tell if his age is affecting his mental abilities.
This morning, the death of Annie Glen got the attention of the news away from Trump, at least for a moment. She also had a stuttering problem which was made famous in the 1983 movie,
The Right Stuff.
As her obituary revealed, Annie had much accomplishments apart from her famous husband. Her life story can allow us not to be overly concern about Joe's handicap.
Joe Biden is at his best when he talks about how he came back from personal tragedies. He addressed his stuttering problem in this video we showed in one of our meeting three months ago.
Biden refers to the movie,
The King's Speech, where King George VI learns to overcome his stuttering to rally the UK at there start of WWII.
If elected, Joe will have to undo the damage of both Trump and COVID-19. He will be facing a bigger problem than when Obama took office at the start of the Great Recession. Can a president with a speech handicap do the job?
I am reminded of a fourth stutterer from
I Claudius, an old TV mini-series
about the early emperors of Rome. Claudius, a member of the royal family, was assumed to be an idiot because of his speech problems. Yet, he was drafted to replace the hated overthrown Emperor Caligula because there was no one else. But Claudius turned out to be a good emperor because of his handicap, not in spite of it.
I have my doubts about Joe, but he is our only alternative to our Caligula, Donald Trump. I have decided to stop listening to Joe for signs of senility. I am going to follow what he writes, not what he says.
For starters here is his NY Times op-ed on the pandemic:
It is five weeks old and is still relevant.
