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NJCher

(37,183 posts)
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 03:18 PM Jul 13

LTTE re Biden to Washington Post

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, I’m 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 Post’s 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. Doesn’t 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 Trump’s deranged rants and outrageous lies? Have they become so “ordinary” that The Post’s writers won’t call him out for a performance that insults the office? I guess it wasn’t “news” like Biden’s fatigue-plagued performance.

The Post’s 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. Johnson’s 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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usonian

(12,316 posts)
3. I am sure that they will love the "reviewers" standing over their writers with loaded machine guns.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 03:50 PM
Jul 13

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
You might get it.

Desert grandma

(1,031 posts)
4. At least The Post published the letter.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 03:53 PM
Jul 13

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!!


PatSeg

(49,534 posts)
6. Great letter to the editor!
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 05:38 PM
Jul 13

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)
7. The comparison to Johnson is apt. In my view he was one of our greatest presidents
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 05:59 PM
Jul 13

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?

sop

(11,078 posts)
9. LBJ's decision to step aside was precipitated by more than just "Democrats hounding a sitting president."
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 06:12 PM
Jul 13

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.

calimary

(83,443 posts)
13. Thank you for posting this, NJCher.
Sun Jul 14, 2024, 12:45 AM
Jul 14

Just a freakin’-ass crazy day.

I can’t believe we are where we are.

wyldwolf

(43,891 posts)
14. I remember a time on DU when...
Sun Jul 14, 2024, 11:05 AM
Jul 14

... 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.

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