Drawing The First Presidential Debate

It was difficult in many ways

First off, they did not shake hands.

Last night’s debate was hard to watch. One man lied repeatedly with bombastic, arrogant statements, the other man stumbled with strong, ethical ideas.

Biden had some very good lines, but he delivered them too fast, sometimes stumbling over his words and in a raspy, weak, monotone voice. Even if the words were good, they had little impact. Trump made up so many things — including that he never said there are good people on both sides — it was alarming. Even more than usual. He tried to rewrite history about the pandemic, January 6th, he blamed Biden for Oct 7th attack in Israel, and claimed Putin respects him. He painted our country as a nightmare, which I know was hard for Joe to hear because he loves our country so much. Every criticism lobbed at Trump was turned around and just thrown back at Biden. He said hateful things. Trump acts like a five year old spoiled child.

There were times when Trump said things so preposterous, you could see Joes’ face showing outrage, but then he didn’t respond with any force. Usually. A couple of times he did.