SHORTLY AFTER  9 P.M. MONDAY, after three campaign stops in Pennsylvania throughout the day, our energetic president returned to the White House to introduce his newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, in a Rose Garden ceremony.  I thought it was fitting that Justice Clarence Thomas, who survived the confirmation hearings when Joe Biden served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, swore in Barrett.

ADMIRATION DASHED – Six years ago, I heard Admiral William H. McRaven deliver a memorable commencement address at the University of Texas. I recall directing friends to You Tube to the video of it.

He began his address, filled with his learning experiences from Seal training, began with the importance of accomplishing the first task of the day – making your bed.  When you return to the barracks after a miserable day of training with your bed made, “it will reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter,” he related

While his address was filled with better experiences, the address became known as the “Make Your Bed” speech.

I was impressed with McRaven, who had been a Seal for 36 years. I leaned that in addition to his interest in a strong defense, he was a small-government guy, pro-life and Second Amendment.

I was stunned when I read his recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he stated that he had voted for Joe Biden.

The same Joe Biden, who stood with Barack Hussein Obama when he apologized for America abroad, and showed little interest in America’s exceptionalism.

It turns out that McRaven is a globalist, who is more interested in what the world thinks of us than putting America first.  “Now the world no longer looks up to America,” he believes.

He obviously believes that Biden would have handled the pandemic and those western wildfires better than President Trump.

While claiming to be a national-anthem-standing conservative, he believes in the Marxist founded Black Lives Matter movement.  Are we to believe that his belief in climate change is limited to the simple fact that there have been cyclic changes for thousands of years?  I think not.

“If we fail to choose the right leader, then we will pay the highest price for our neglect and shortsightedness,” he concluded.

Returning to the transcript of McRaven’s address, he noted, “Changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it.  So what starts here (the University of Texas) can indeed change the world.  But the question is, what will the world look like after you change it?  Well, I’m confident that it will look much, much better.”

Thank you for your service, Admiral, but I have more confidence in another Texan, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who wrote of Biden, “I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” and added in his memoir that Biden “had some issues with the military.” 

KAMALA MIMICS HILLARY – Remember how Hillary Clinton used to defuse a reporter’s question that she couldn’t or didn’t want to answer?  She would throw her head back and bellow a big laugh.

Kamala Harris emerged from isolation to appear on 60 minutes Sunday with Norah O’Donnell.  When O’Donnell asked Harris if she would bring all of those progressive policies into a Biden administration, she said “I will always share with him my lived experience as it relates to any issue that we confront.”

Pressing Harris whether that would be from a socialist or progressive perspective, Harris paused before cracking up in an “insane Joker laugh,” as commentator Ben Shapiro described it.  “No, no” she continued to say while laughing.

BIDEN APPEARED CONFUSED during an online fundraising event Sunday, and seemed to need an assist from Jill.  It happened while appearing remotely on the party’s “I Will Vote” concert that included John Legend, Dave Mathew, Cher and Pink, he was attempting to make the point that character was on the ballot.

“What kind of country we’re going to be,” he began, “Four more years of George, ah George, gonna find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected, we’re going to be in a different world.”   Jill appeared to prod her husband, saying “Trump.”

“I GOT YOU BABE” – Oh, how Cher has changed since those fun-loving “Sonny and Cher Show” days of the seventies.  During a Saturday Biden-Harris campaign appearance in Las Vegas, she told the audience, “I’ve seen what has gone on.  I’ve seen how we’ve changed as a group of people – especially women.  I see that was so ignorant too.”  “Was?” remarked Mike Miller of Red State.  Saying that she’s known Joe Biden since 2006, she claims he’s got the “great, great attributes.  He is honest, he is truthful, he knows what he’s doing, he is smart.  You can’t build anything unless you build it on truth.”

Then, seemingly aware of the questions surrounding Biden’s ability to handle the duties of president, Cher says “I mean he’s not gonna come with no one – he’s coming in with the best people, and they’re ready to work.”   What she’s saying is that with Biden you are electing a placeholder.

She accused Trump of “ripping the guts out of America,” and “if he got four more years, we wouldn’t recognize it.  We wouldn’t have any of the freedoms we have; I don’t even know if we’re gonna be able to get the freedoms back.”  She didn’t explain what “freedoms” she was referring to.

LAUGH OF THE DAY – During Cher’s campaign appearance for Joe Biden in Las Vegas, I’m sure she really impressed supporters when she said, “He’s got this idea to make jobs where no jobs before.  You know, he’s got this idea how to make jobs where there were no jobs before.  I don’t know if people – they’re good jobs.  They pay well. And I’m sure if people care what kind of a job as long as it’s honest, pays well, and it doesn’t kill you.”

May God continue to bless the United States of America.