How did we get so lucky?
Out of the 200 million or so people in the United States, we can choose between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, AGAIN, to be President because the first time was so much fun.
This is the first rematch election since Eisenhower and Stevenson in 1956.
Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower defeated Adali "Yes that's my name" Stevenson by a landslide in 1952.
The Democrats didn't want to nominate Stevenson, and Stevenson didn't want to be the nominee. However, Harry Truman talked both into it, and Eisenhower won in a landslide, even though his running mate was Richard Nixon, whom we would all get to know better.
When 1956 came around, Stevenson decided he really wanted to be President and ran against Eisenhower again.
Stevenson's running mate was Estes Kefauver (pronounced: "Key-Faw-Fer"), so you can imagine what a charismatic duo those two were (see below). The only person I know (besides Old Man Manis who was a Yellow Dog Democrat) that voted for Stevenson-Kefauver was Ritchie Cunningham*. But he did it to impress Pinky Tuscadero.
Trump has the opportunity to be the first president elected to non-consecutive terms since "Big Sexy" Grover Cleveland in 1892.
Cleveland won in 1884, lost to Benjamin "Ben-Ben" Harrison in 1888, and then defeated Harrison in 1892.
Trump and Cleveland are similar in several ways.
One, both are from New York. Two, both are workaholics. Three, both are rather husky.
That's about it. You can't go back to history and say that it is repeating itself because Cleveland was popular for his time. One of my grandfathers was named for him—good old Grandfather Big Sexy.
Trump thinks he is popular, but you don't see anybody naming their newborn sons after him.
As I have noted before, Biden's biggest problem is his age. He is 81 years old. He looks, walks, talks, and acts like an 81-year-old man.
His recent State Of The Union address was pronounced a success because he walked to the podium and seemed to know where he was at.
To the relief of his smarty-pants crew at The White House, he didn't veer off the prepared remarks to tell the country that nickels used to have bumble bees on them, and when you needed change for a quarter, you told the man at the cash register that you wanted five bees.
The thesis of his State of The Union address was, "if you think it is bad now, just wait till fat boy gets back in." He offered no solutions or ideas except not to listen to Republicans.
Trump responded to Biden in real time using filters on Instagram showing the President and Vice President with googly eyes which of course, raised the level of political debate in this country.
What can you do if you don't like either candidate? Well, there's always a third party.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is running on the platform that his last name is neither Trump nor Biden.
Kennedy is not as charismatic as his father or uncle. He is not into vaccines, and he thinks Big Pharma is running the country. But his wife is cute.
My suggestion is to pray. A lot.
*Before you say it, I know Ritchie Cunningham was not old enough or real enough to vote in 1956.
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