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No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised to read that I want President Joe Biden to succeed as he trudges through his term in office. I hope it is just his\u00a0first<\/em>\u00a0term \u2026 but that remains an open question, to be crystal clear.<\/p>\n

I am not going to presume that the president will even\u00a0seek<\/em>\u00a0a second term, let alone that he\u2019ll win election to another four years in the White House.<\/p>\n

He came into office promising to (a) end the pandemic, (b) restore the \u201csoul of the nation\u201d and (c) get our economy moving again. I am going to give the president credit for achieving one of those ambitious goals and part of another one.<\/p>\n

The economy is stronger than many of us seem to believe it is. Polling suggests Americans remain concerned about the economic track we\u2019re on. I am unclear as to why there remains such uncertainty and angst. I know about inflationary pressures; we\u2019re feeling them in our North Texas home, too. The job numbers continue to sparkle, unemployment continues to decline and we\u2019re buying more goods and services.<\/p>\n

The national soul restoration remains a work in progress. Sadly, we\u2019re still being infected with disinformation peddled by Biden\u2019s immediate predecessor. The Big Lie still has legs, although most of its limbs have been cut off by the judicial system that keeps undercutting POTUS 45\u2019s efforts to undermine the integrity of our electoral system. Biden, though, has sought to return the United States to its role as leader of alliances and protector of civil liberties around the world. He\u2019s done well in that regard, dispensing with the gratuitous criticism of our allies.<\/p>\n

Yes, the pandemic remains a problem. But its drag on our national psyche is dwindling right along with the infection rates, the hospitalizations and the deaths from COVID infection. States are relaxing their mandates on masks and other precautions. I am not heeding Texas\u2019s relaxation efforts. We are still masking up and are still keeping our distance from those we do not know.<\/p>\n

I am continuing to pull for President Biden to keep up the fight and to score more successes as he moves along through his term. You know already he wasn\u2019t my first choice to defeat the man who held the office for four previous years. Then he became the Democratic Party nominee in 2020 \u2026 and I was all in.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0remain\u00a0<\/em>all in. Keep the faith, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

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No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised to read that I want President Joe Biden to succeed as he trudges through his term in office. I hope it is just his\u00a0first\u00a0term \u2026 but that remains an open question, to be crystal clear. I am not going to presume that the president will … Continue reading Still pulling for POTUS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[2503,2505,9882,9261],"class_list":["post-50638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-joblessness","tag-joe-biden","tag-national-soul","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50639,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638\/revisions\/50639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}