By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

A curious thought entered my noggin this afternoon as I watched the nation’s next president roll out his health and human services team for public review.

Joe Biden sounded so cotton-pickin’ presidential today. He sounded reasonable. He was careful. Circumspect. Cautious. Articulate. Knowledgeable about the challenges that await him.

The strange thought was this: Why is such a statement from a leading politician even worth mentioning? It’s because of what we have endured through four years of the idiocy that pours routinely out of Donald John Trump’s pie hole.

I have heard others say much the same thing as they, too, have watched President-elect Biden reveal his team. He has done so in careful increments. He speaks to us like a politician who actually cares to communicate with an entire country. He speaks of others’ suffering. Biden tells us repeatedly he will surround himself with aides and advisers who tell him what he needs to hear, not limit the messages to what he wants to hear. Joe Biden made that point once again today, with crystal clarity. 

You see, this is the kind of thing that were he coming after a normal president wouldn’t be worthy of any comment. Except that he isn’t. He is following an individual who has no sense of the gravity of the job he inherited. Trump has no historical knowledge of the office he occupied. Trump sees all relationships as transactional and communicates that perspective to us daily.

Donald Trump has done seemingly the impossible: He has turned something that should be routine into a cause to celebrate.

Therefore, I am cheering the pending arrival of a president who speaks to us the way the duly elected leader of this great nation should speak.