Brian Lera on WNYC and for these last minutes of the show today we're finally going to acknowledge

that it's President's Day. We're going to wrap it up with a call-in for President's Day

maybe made extra special do the fact that we are in a presidential election year.

So here's the question.

When was the last time you were motivated to hit the ballot box, not by fear or hatred of the candidate you wanted to stop, but instead out of hope

for the candidate you wanted to support.

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And who was an actual president that inspired you and made you excited for the future of the country?

Has there been a president in your lifetime who you love, politically speaking, someone who you looked up to?

When was the last time you voted for somebody out of hope and out of respect for that person rather than oh my

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992 and we ask sort of obviously because our current situation

seems closer to the former than the latter for so many people. While many of you have texted or called in speaking in praise of President Biden

and his achievements while in office, I would reckon that many of you also have

questioned the strength of his candidacy. We did a segment on that last week with

an Atlantic writer who said, I don't want Trump to be president again no way but is

Biden the strongest candidate be at his age his manner of speaking how he's dealt with the ongoing situation in Gaza, some of you lack confidence in the

president's ability to take on another term or you don't like his policies.

And I know that those of you who feel that way, many of you plan on voting for Biden anyway,

because the alternative, another four years of Trump and the chaos and various forms of awfulness that you think he would bring are deeply unappealing.

But this makes me wonder,

listeners, what is it about a candidate that tells you they'd make for a great president?

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