I like Pete Buttigieg. I like Elizabeth Warren. I may even like Andrew Yang.

But I shall caucus for Joe Biden.

Pete has better charisma and ability to create a personal connection with the audience than any other Democratic candidate, the most I have seen since Barack Obama. Elizabeth understands that we need to take this country back from the overreaching of corporations in many segments of our culture. Andrew connects with the younger generation with ideas that will become policies in the future.

However, I believe Joe, if he wins the Democratic nomination, will win and become president.

I saw Joe in person in 2008, and he gave the most cogent answer regarding how to deal with the various factions in Afghanistan. Despite the current stereotype, in the two times that I have seen him in person this caucus season and the multiple performances he has given during the debates, I think that he continues to give cogent answers to the questions of our day. His experience, his character, his decency, his fundamental ideas and his history of personal tragedy all have molded him into an ideal president.

It will be a national tragedy if the obscene Ukrainian attempt to smear Joe’s reputation creates the taint that leads to his defeat in the race for the Democratic nomination.

What I have learned from the Trump Administration is that much of the bad or good that is done under one’s administration is dependent on the president’s advisors and cabinet selections. I believe that, with his experience and wisdom, Joe shall choose individuals who will chart a new course for our country in a way that the majority of our countrymen and women will support. I can see Pete, Elizabeth, Amy, Cory, and Kamala as worthy candidates to consider for high offices within the administration.

Controversially, I believe Joe should only have one term as president. Our country is getting younger. I would have Joe spend the next four years molding the younger generations of leaders in how to run a presidency and, more importantly, resetting the way a president acts and conducts himself or herself as president.

I believe Joe’s time as vice president, senator and an individual who has gone through tragedies has created a true gentleman who can lead and inspire our nation and the next crop of presidents (Democrat and Republican).

From a health-reform policy standpoint, I believe he has the same goal as all the Democratic presidential candidates, that being universal health-care access. I believe as I said in a previous blog entry that such a goal should be achieved incrementally instead of by revolutionary destruction of our private insurance model. I think with the correct advice that Joe can accomplish that goal.

I look forward to caucus night. It should be a fascinating experience.