Subject: Re: The age problem
albaby1: The President has a marginal - at best - role in legislation.

Am I mistaken, or do presidents no longer have veto power? And are presidents no longer able to influence legislation, say, like Biden did with the Infrastructure bill?

But sure, you can go ahead and vote for the guy who says he'll get the trains to run on time (or build the wall and get Mexico to pay for it, or secure the border with EOs) even though he failed to do so when he held the office the first time around.

Me, I'm going with what George Stephanopoulos said when opening his show this morning:

Until now, no American president had ever faced a criminal trial. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment for retaining and concealing classified documents. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment or a state indictment for trying to overturn an election, or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two other states for the same crime. No American president ever faced hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for business fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse.

Until now, no American presidential race had been more defined by what’s happening in courtrooms than by what’s happening on the campaign trail. Until now. The scale of the abnormality is so staggering, that it can actually become numbing. It’s all too easy to fall into reflexive habits, to treat this as a normal campaign, where both sides embrace the rule of law, where both sides are dedicated to a debate based on facts and the peaceful transfer of power. But that is not what’s happening this election year. Those bedrock tenants of democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War. It’s a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens.

Sorry, albaby1, but this ain't no normal campaign.