[PD (subscription req'd)] By Editorial Board, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer[Pathetic, but typical...I couldn't read much past those four bullets.]
- Integrity matters.
- Honesty matters.
- Leadership matters.
- Compassion matters.
Donald Trump is America’s first president to embody none of these qualities, and for that reason above all others, we ask that you vote for Joe Biden to become president of the United States in January.
It’s not that we believe Biden is a terrific candidate. We don’t. The Democratic Party has once again failed to give the nation the inspiring nominee we need, a leader for a new age.
We believe, however, that Biden would offer much-needed compassionate leadership in a country wracked by anxiety and fear, as well as a devastating pandemic.
We have other reasons for endorsing Biden over Trump, as we articulate below, but the nation’s top priority must be replacing a president who repeatedly has lied to us and placed his personal interests above those of the people he was elected to serve.
The presidency is at the core of the American identity. We rely on the person who holds the office to see what is best in us and envision our brightest future, to be to an example for our children. We are so much better than the people our current president sees. Our future should be much brighter than the dystopia he believes we inhabit.
Let’s begin a discussion of the issues with leadership. When the nation needed it during the most deadly pandemic in more than a century, our president lied to us about the severity of it, failed to heed the scientists in his employ to effectively battle it, refused for months to wear a mask as an example to the citizenry and left the states to fend for themselves.
A nation long known for the quality of its health expertise performed more poorly than just about every industrialized country on the planet....