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It's only 4 paragraphs, so I'm including the whole letter. Link is below, but you might hit a paywall.
I love the remark about Nixon being a small-time crook.
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A 75-year-old liberal, Im the child of two liberal parents. Because my mother was a columnist who became the lead editorial writer for the Houston Post, I have always looked first to the opinion pages. I grieve to see The Posts Editorial Board and op-ed writers succumb to the deadly liberal habit of eating our own.
After three years of superb governance that restored our standing in the world and gave us the best economy in decades, President Biden had a bad night at the debate. Doesnt The Post owe its readers a sense of perspective? Instead of taking a breath, cutting him some slack for a day or so, The Post rushed like lemmings to call for him to step down. Where was commensurate coverage of his unworthy opponent? Has The Post become so inured to Donald Trumps deranged rants and outrageous lies? Have they become so ordinary that The Posts writers wont call him out for a performance that insults the office? I guess it wasnt news like Bidens fatigue-plagued performance.
The Posts writers might be too young to recall the last time Democrats hounded a sitting president into stepping out of the race. But they should consider how Lyndon B. Johnsons withdrawal gave us Richard M. Nixon. Nixon was a small-time crook whose criminal activities were preschool antics compared with those of the felon who might take the presidency next. And, in those days, there were honorable, patriotic Republican lawmakers who persuaded Nixon to resign. Not one such person will represent the GOP in Congress next year.
Elections are always a choice between flawed human beings, each of whom could form a government. Biden has done that admirably. Is The Post really ready for Project 2025?
Susan Barnes, Newport, R.I.
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spooky3
(35,571 posts)BootinUp
(48,333 posts)usonian
(12,316 posts)BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
You might get it.
Desert grandma
(1,031 posts)I am beginning to sense that the corporate media structure has underestimated the strength of the grassroots back- lash they were inciting with their "Biden Bashing". They vastly underestimated the power of an enraged and engaged electorate. We are enraged and engaged!! Go Joe!!
Native
(6,091 posts)PatSeg
(49,534 posts)And thank you Washington Post for actually publishing it. It doesn't undo all the damage that has been done, but at least it is something.
Stinky The Clown
(68,292 posts)What more might he have gotten done? We never got to find out. Instead we got a crook.
Imagine what pushing Biden out will get us?
soldierant
(7,638 posts)The second letter is good also. That's as far as I've gotten at this point.
sop
(11,078 posts)Opposition to the war at the grassroots level was tearing the country apart, Johnson's Great Society programs were unpopular and violent race riots in big cities were all over tv news every night. Then a few weeks after announcing he wasn't running, MLK and RFK were murdered. It's no surprise Humphrey lost so badly to Nixon. Joe Biden's situation is much different; the people trying to take him down have no justification, other than a poor debate performance.
wendyb-NC
(3,658 posts)That Letter is so true. It is a must read for all voters.
Joinfortmill
(15,774 posts)Joinfortmill
(15,774 posts)calimary
(83,443 posts)Just a freakin-ass crazy day.
I cant believe we are where we are.
wyldwolf
(43,891 posts)... any mention of the left forcing LBJ out of the race gave us Nixon (and other similar things) was met with incredulity from the JPL. In these times, we should all look to the party's past for clues on just how certain actions can lead to unintended consequences.