Endorsement: Why Joe Biden deserves to be president of the United States

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San Diego Union Tribune

Since Donald Trump began his bid for the White House in 2015 with an appalling speech in which he warned of Mexican rapists and drug dealers preying on the United States, he has been a one-man assault on norms of decency and democracy. For more than five years now, our nation has been subjected to his almost daily displays of incivility, dishonesty and hostility to large categories of Americans. But it’s not just the president’s behavior that has been awful. Many of his policies on vital issues have been both mistaken and dangerous.

That he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus and are showing symptoms of COVID-19 after months of the president minimizing mask wearing and mocking mask wearers changes none of that — although the Trumps, like all infected Americans, deserve everyone’s wishes for good health.

An unprecedented series of events in American history have led us to this moment.

The question today isn’t Trump’s health. It’s his fitness for office. On the single issue that is the biggest existential threat to humanity — climate change — Trump has denied science and pulled the United States out of a global accord with the potential to seriously address the perils of greenhouse gases warming the planet.

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1. Deserves? More like clean up for the Party of Idiots.

Biden does not deserve what we need him to do for a second time. Clean up the Republican mess that has to be addressed again.

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2. Oh Cool.. San Diego Union!

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3. I don't know if "deserves" is the right word.

There a big mess, not just in aisle 6, for him to clean up. And he helped clean up the mess the last R pResident left behind.

We should be thankful he wants to do it.