Kamala Harris and Josh Shapiro for President and Vice President
A Winning Team to Defeat Trump-Vance
I write from our house in Lewes, Delaware where we are neighbors with the Bidens who live on the Rehoboth side of the Gordons Pond Bike Trail. The President has made a wise decision to exit the race for the White House, and his support for his Vice President to be the Democratic nominee to be President is a wise and politically astute decision.
There were questions about the Vice President early-on, but she has grown in the job, is an effective communicator and someone who has the energy and drive to take the campaign against the doddering felon Trump and his partner, J.D. Vance, a man who wants a national veto of all abortions, who wants to impose Christian Nationalism, who wants to abandon our ally Ukraine and let Putin seize it as he starts his campaign to re-enslave Europe. Harris has and will confront Trump and his inexperienced and wildly radical V.P. choice. Trump has a record of supporting losers as candidates, and he may have outdone himself in selecting Vance, a man who lies almost as frequently as Trump and who wants to impose a government that controls women’s bodies, imposes religious tests, and is willing to give Putin a free hand in seizing not only Ukraine, but also other European countries that Putin may desire.
Harris will be a strong voice on protecting women’s reproductive rights, she will fight to maintain our strong political and military support for Ukraine, she will work hard to strengthen worker’s rights and promote union representation and she will work hard to reduce the vast inequality in opportunities and income among the U.S. population and see that the wealthy individuals and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Hopefully, she will seek an increase in contributions of the wealthy to the Social Security Trust Fund.
Hopefully, she will also work to expand the Supreme Court to 13 Justices, impose term limits on Justices and adopt a Congressional Canons of Ethics enforceable against the Justices by the public.
Who will Ms. Harris choose as her Vice-President? My recommendation and support goes to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro would be our first Jewish Vice-President. He is a man with a strong Jewish faith who not only practices the rituals but also implements Jewish ethics in his life. Naturally, he supports Israel, but he has criticized some of the excesses of Netanyahu and his far-right wing ministers. He supports aid to our ally Ukraine and its Jewish president Zelensky. Unlike Vance, Shapiro believes we should aid Ukraine to extract its country from Putin’s relentless attacks and death experienced by the Ukrainian people.
Shapiro was a neighbor of my wife in Rydal, Pennsylvania, and she recalls Mr. Shapiro coming around to introduce himself to his new neighbors as soon as he moved into his house. He was then seeking election to a County Commissioner seat which he won, in the strong Montgomery County, PA. He then went on to be elected Attorney General of Pennsylvania and was extraordinarily effective as Attorney General. Then he was elected Governor of Pennsylvania. He has been effective, efficient and highly competent in his position as Governor.
Josh is 51. John F. Kennedy was 43 when elected President. Josh is seasoned and well balanced unlike flip flop Vance who first hated Trump before he loved him for personal gain and ambition.
Mr. Shapiro is reliable, clear headed, and a quick study. He can serve admirably as Vice President and as President if the need and opportunity arises.
And a BIG THANK YOU to President Biden for an extremely wise decision to pass the torch to a new generation of Democrats who can effectively lead the nation. President Biden will retire with a positive record of many accomplishments, a record comparable to F.D.R. pulling the nation through the depression and conducting successful war against Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito and Tojo of Japan.
President Biden retires after 50 years of public service as a Senator, Vice-President and President. The nation owes him a huge debt of gratitude.
Now let’s get going and defeat Trump-Vance and reduce them to the dustbin of history.
At least Trump has sometimes recognized true talent. Here is Trump’s check to Harris re-Election as AG campaign
Thanks - exactly as I see things. I would like to see Biden treated as the great human he has always been, revered for his service & his wonderful accomplishments as prez. He has pulled the country out of the doldrums of the trump era, given us hope again & shown us what the system is supposed to be doing - our business ! Now it's time for somebody young & energetic to lead us into a new fresh era to help us forget & finally put away the horrors of the trump threat & the Repubs desire to turn us all into low wage slaves ! I'm a Brit so my natural desire is for Biden to now get a Knighthood, or at least the American equivalent, and then be held as one of the available political advisors for our next prez to tap as needed for all that experience to not be lost. Thank you Joe for all that devoted service !