Is this the best of our options?

Before I go too far, I want to make one thing very clear:

I am a convinced democrat.

I didn’t see much of the presidential debate on June 27th.

Afterwards, I looked at the highlights (if you can call them that).

I consider myself a pretty stoic person when it comes to the debate, but I saw what was coming… a contest between presidential candidates who are unfit for the office. I just didn’t have the courage to do it. I must have had the foresight… I was absolutely right!

Biden’s performance was apparently incoherent at times and very embarrassing. And listening to Trump’s alternate reality speech is a nauseating exercise for me. Trump seems incapable of telling the truth and tends toward the sociopathic. Where the hell is Mitt Romney when you really need him?

Are these the two best candidates the United States of America has to offer? Jon Stuart, comedian and political satirist, joked that he would contact a real estate agent in New Zealand. I’m thinking of Ireland. The land of Saint Patrick and nothing but green. It actually sounds like heaven at the moment.

See you in Galway.

Paul Foks, Winter Haven

Voice of the People (23 June 2023): The US Supreme Court has lost its integrity