Despite frustrations, we feel Biden’s loss

My friends who voted for former President Joe Biden are frustratingly stuck between his presidential accomplishments, his shoot-himself-in-foot moments since leaving office and his recent cancer diagnosis.

Biden’s administration gave us the CHIPS Act to bolster’s America’s semiconductor manufacturing and research, the Inflation Reduction Act and a bi-partisan Infrastructure Law. That’s a short list, but safe roads and bridges come in handy. They benefit everyone.

I once handed an attendant my change, or threw it into a toll basket. No one ever asked me who I voted for before I could enter the toll road. No flashing red lights screamed “NO ENTRANCE: YOU VOTED FOR THE PARTY THAT DIDN’T BUILD THIS ROAD.” Medicaid and disease research help people who need it regardless of their political affiliation. That’s one thing the Biden administration understood.

I’ve blown hot and cold on Biden over the years and wish he had exited the 2024 race sooner. But he and VP Harris brought relative calm to the nation in 2021. He didn’t end our “national nightmare” a la President Gerald Ford after Watergate, but Watergate was another animal — a more-tame one, it turns out.

Our current president often reminds us of Joe Biden’s shortcomings every chance he gets. Even our current economy is deemed Biden’s responsibility — just the bad parts, of course. “presidential” and “petulance” are now synonyms.

Congrats to the 2024 Election winners. You won, Joe Biden’s gone and y’all got what you wanted. Now, hush.

Jim Newton

Itasca