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Sharon L Fullen's avatar

When I hear people griping about Biden’s age, I wonder if they were deprived the wonder and joy of having grandparents. I lived in awe of the experiences my 4 grandparents had lived through. Listening to them tell their stories, was like living through our country’s past. My two grandmothers lived long full lives filled with hard work and joy.

My dad’s mother lived and I do mean lived a full life until she was 105. Her memory was better than mine. She could remember every detail including the postman’s name when she was five. She grew up near the Canadian border on a dairy farm in Minnesota listening to the very first radio broadcasts. Her stories of our country’s history were better than reading any history book. She was very excited about politics and she hated Bush Jr. When he won, she was pissed. She said, if she’d had a better walker she be going to Canada. And I never doubted her.

But my favorite thing was her long stories about former Presidents like my favorite FDR during the depression, his fireside chats, the Japanese internment camps and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The things she said about Hitler are burned in my memory. She was a child of German immigrants so it was personal. Authors documenting the wars and the news events from around the world could never really match how it felt to live through it.

Well, this rambling is my way of telling voters that putting their trust in Biden is far less frightening than reelecting the worst president in history. The experience Joe has gives him such depth in dealing with the potential horrors awaiting us. I only wish Grandma was still here she’d set you straight. But it is better that she never knows how her beloved country has fallen into despair and the evil events she lived through have reared up again. She’d be watching the election night returns with the TV up loud. And if need be, she’d help me cope with history repeating itself.

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Jackie Ralston's avatar

"The first shots of the 2024 battle for the presidency have been fired by the two oldest humans ever to suffer self-delusion at the country’s expense."

Oh honey. You really need to get out more.

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