Waiting for a POTUS to do his job

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By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

While we watch Donald Trump remained fixated on an issue he cannot change, it is good to look ahead toward an era when we get a president who is committed to doing his job.

Joe Biden will take an oath on Jan. 20 to defend and protect the Constitution and to defend Americans against our enemies.

Our enemies must include a pandemic that continues to kill Americans every hour of the day. The total has zoomed past 300,000 and will only grow for the foreseeable future. Yes, we have good news on the way in the form of vaccines developed by two major pharmaceutical firms; medicine is being injected right now into the arms of first responders.

The current president, though, is quiet about all the misery we’re still experiencing. He instead is focusing on court challenges to an election he lost bigly. He has lost more than 60 court battles, including at least two of them before the U.S. Supreme Court; indeed, he has been rebuffed by the three justices he nominated to the nation’s highest court, proving once again the value of an independent federal judiciary.

Joe Biden will bring an entirely different approach to governing. Of that I am absolutely, utterly and completely certain. The president-elect has spent his entire professional life in public service. He is wired for the job he is about to inherit, unlike Trump, who is wired only for self-enrichment.

Trump never acquired the knowledge of running a massive government enterprise. It’s now an open question whether he even knew how to run a business empire he acquired with substantial financial help from his father.

Donald Trump has been AWOL since losing his re-election bid. The new man, Joe Biden, is hard at work crafting an executive branch of government worthy of the effort that awaits it.

I am one American who looks forward to the new guy taking charge.