Thursday 20 August 2020

Hold Fire On Engraving Biden's Nobel Prize

When Barack Obama became American President, such was the relief after the foreign policy debacles of George W Bush, that a Nobel Peace Prize was shoveled towards him although there were many calls for this to be taken back when he turned out to be if not as war mongering as his predecessor, happy to continue what he inherited and start a new war in Libya.  
With that in mind you can expect whoever takes over from Donald Trump to be applauded just for not being Donald Trump but for all his faults, Trump has not invaded or started any wars with anyone.
He may be an abhorrent human being on almost every level and easily the most inept American President i have ever in my lifetime, his reaction to the Coronavirus pandemic was as bad as it could be and there are 170,000 and counting less Americans wedged between Canada and Mexico because of it, but what he does there has no consequences to those of us not under his rule.
Withdrawing from the Paris Accords, the Iran deal and leaving the WHO during a pandemic to try and shift blame away from his own inadequacies have an effect worldwide and apart from Putin in Russia, it is hard to think of any other World Leaders who will be hoping he wins a second term in November.
If he does lose then the new President will be Joe Biden, a man who i know very little about but whenever i see him he looks like he is about to either fall asleep or has just woken up.
To make up for his low energy, his Vice President pick seems more upbeat but again i know nothing about her either but both have been described as centralists and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't seem over enamored with the Democrat choice and she is about the only one who caught my eye out of the Democrat Party members. 
For all those who assume there are not enough Americans who will look at Trump's record and think he did a good enough job to get another four years, just a warning that we assumed that all John Kerry had to do was turn up to take the White House keys off George W Bush in 2004, but Bush got sent back for another term so i wouldn't be engraving that Nobel Prize with Biden's name just yet.

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