{"id":6935,"date":"2022-12-08T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:19:02","slug":"at-80-joe-biden-is-getting-it-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/at-80-joe-biden-is-getting-it-done\/","title":{"rendered":"At 80 Joe Biden Is Getting It Done"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike McNair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By M. Mike McNair, EdD, Publisher, The Buckeye Review<\/strong><\/em>
\nGuest Column<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For all the surveys being touted about so many people not wanting Joe Biden to seek re-election, I point to the same survey\u2019s predicting a red tsunami in the midterms.\u00a0 The surveys were vastly overstated and colossally wrong.\u00a0 No doubt the same junk science is being applied to the surveys that news outlets are using to report most people surveyed do not want Biden to seek re-election.\u00a0\u00a0 To that and to them I say\u2026read the room.\u00a0 Read the midterm results. And read the successes.<\/p>\n

We can be proud when he speaks on the world stage. We are confident he will not embarrass the United States. This is in stark contrast to the unpredictable guffaws of Donald Trump\u2019s appearances.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s tawdry appearance in Helsinki in 2018 is seared in the international community\u2019s conscience as he cow-towed to the Russian leader and threw the American Intelligence community under the bus.\u00a0 And his giving a pass to American Nazis at Charlottesville VA in 2017 with his \u201cnice people on both sides\u201d quibble was disgraceful.\u00a0 This was long before the extortion of the Ukrainian president for political gain, which led to his first impeachment.\u00a0 But this is not about Trump.<\/p>\n

President Biden said America is back two years ago when he was elected.\u00a0 Since then he has been incredibly successful legislatively.\u00a0\u00a0 Keeping his commitment to build from the middle out rather than the top down has been consistently applied in decisions as well as legislation.\u00a0 Honoring the direction of the nation and uniting NATO and the western coalition has been a safety message that gives comfort to a watching world.<\/p>\n

Internationally the globe needs America\u2019s economy to be stable and its direction to be certain.\u00a0 The inflation that is raging is a global issue affecting all economies.\u00a0 So too are the global tensions with Vladimir Putin\u2019s offensive against Ukraine, Xi Jinping\u2019s obvious intentions toward Taiwan, notwithstanding the U.S. leadership and Kim Jong-un\u2019s sabre rattling on the Korean Peninsula.\u00a0 Not to mention Iran and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Domestically, the real Infrastructure bill will have deep and long positive implications in states both red and blue.\u00a0 The American Rescue Plan funds, too, have a wide reach around the nation.\u00a0 Witness the health initiative launched in this edition of the Buckeye Review about the Youngstown Health Department.\u00a0 It will likely be a model for other communities to make health care a priority.\u00a0 Imagine that.\u00a0 Expanded health care amid an international health crisis that is still reverberating through the economy.<\/p>\n

Republicans are gladly spending the ARP and Infrastructure Bill funds and taking credit for the flow of cash while they voted against it.\u00a0 Hubris!\u00a0 Then turn around and blame the cash flow for the soaring inflation.\u00a0 Which, by the way, is not true. The inflation Reduction Act, which both reduced the deficit and reduced health care costs for seniors on insulin, was huge.<\/p>\n

Due to the tendency to be a little skittish about age, even those close to the president completed understated his recent birthday as he turned 80 years old.\u00a0 But there are many octogenarians functioning at high levels and, if we\u2019re honest, we hope we all can do the same.\u00a0 Obviously, there is a sunset on our vitality and longevity, but his predecessor and the GOP leader is not much younger.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure who is saying Biden shouldn\u2019t run, more importantly, why not.\u00a0 The Democratic Party is passing the leadership torch in the House of Representatives to a younger group of leaders.\u00a0 The seniors are not leaving.\u00a0 Their experience and wisdom are valued, needed.\u00a0 In the multitude of counselors, there is safety.\u00a0 But at the helm, clearly America and the world needs a longer tenure of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

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Ed. Note:<\/em> M. Mike McNair, EdD, is publisher and editor of the Buckeye Review.\u00a0 In 2018 when the Vindicator became extinct, the Review became the valley\u2019s oldest publication, serving the general market of\u00a0 Youngstown-Warren, generally with particular emphasis on the\u00a0 African American community, since 1937.<\/em><\/p>\n

A former member of the Youngstown Rotary, he has served the valley in multiple roles including, Communications Supervisor for Youngstown City Schools; executive pastor; Founder of 100 Black Men, a mentoring program;\u00a0 relationship coach and clinical counselor.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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