For the record, the man I want to eventually be our president is Republican and former Ohio Governor John Kasich. He’s direct, knows how to compromise, intelligent, tough if needed, and has something that is getting harder to come by: that being common sense. He finished third in the Republican primary in 2016. Hopefully, someday he will be first.

With that stated, I honestly don’t know what to say about the first presidential debate. It is literally beyond words. To say President Biden looked lost and confused would be considered kind to what some people have stated about his performance. Trump was Trump. Spewing nonsense. His claim of countries emptying their mental institutions and sending them here is accurate. The problem is it happened 46 years ago, when Jimmy Carter was president and Castro opened his prisons and asylums. Sorry, Mr. Trump, there is no such thing as an after-birth abortion. If a baby is killed after birth the mother, or parents are charged with murder.

The main problem is the mental condition of President Biden. I honestly couldn’t care less if he needs assistance on stairs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed assistance also and he didn’t do too badly as our president. But our president’s state of mind has now become the main focal point of this election, as it now should be.

The president’s performance at the after-debate rally was just as concerning. His wife, first lady Jill Biden, congratulated him that he answered all the questions as a parent would congratulate a third grader for a spelling contest. The president had a smile and look on his face that could be read as someone not knowing what was said but the people are cheering so I will keep smiling.

The person I honestly blame for this debacle we now face — choosing between a senile elderly man or a man with less than stellar morals and honesty — is the president’s wife. It is not possible that she did not see his decline. It was literally reprehensible the way she led him onto to the stage at the post-debate rally and talked down to him as if he was a stooge.

If she truly cares about her husband and this country, she should have the strength and wisdom to realize it is for the best for her husband to step aside and allow another candidate to take his place. Reports have it that she is fighting any thought of this occurring.

It is for the best that she learns sometimes it is best to surrender a lost cause.