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Roof: Let’s review Biden’s record as he departs

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George Roof is a resident of Magnolia.

I suppose I shouldn’t be that surprised that the Daily State News used the Saturday before Inauguration Day to have its editorial page filled with the canonization of Joe Biden, while exposing those with Trump derangement syndrome. I usually take that with a grain of salt, as the snake pit above the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal surely seeks sainthood for him. However, the histrionic ramblings of Arthur Sowers pushed my last button (“Did Trump really have any ‘great projects’?”).

The fact that anyone with a modicum of education would even associate the name of Adolf Hitler with a president of the United States is not only repulsive, but it shows the death throes of any hopes of uniting a country. I understand the intent, but it takes a really mentally sick person to invoke that name, as common decency should prevail.

I was further upset by his factoid that 154 historians decided that Biden was in 14th place, ahead of Ronald Reagan and Woodrow Wilson. That little tidbit should tell you a lot. I’m assuming those “experts” include the 51 intelligence agents who decreed that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian collusion.” As of the last figures from the Department of Labor, there are 2,699 professional historians in the United States; Mr. Sowers’ source only represents less than 6% of that total. Yet he wants to extol the number of Americans who think our last election was altered? That number was a bit over 33%.

I’m a “transplant” to Delaware, but I arrived here the same time Joe Biden appeared on the political scene. In those 52 years, he was surreptitiously thought of as the clown of Congress. Ten years ago, Robert Gates, the sitting secretary of defense under two presidents, remarked that Biden had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue for the past four decades.

Let’s start with his “achievements” during only the last four years:

  • He completely shut down the U.S. economy, allowing persecution of churchgoers but opening bars.
  • He discharged 8,000 highly trained and qualified military individuals for refusing to take an untested shot.
  • He opened the U.S. border, which allowed over 2.5 million known illegals to enter, with estimates as high as 11 million.
  • He issued over 100 executive orders against those of Donald Trump, including “remain in Mexico.”
  • He prematurely withdrew from Afghanistan, which led to the death of 13 military members, and later said he had no regrets. Who can forget him checking his watch as those remains came off the plane?
  • He initiated the “American Rescue Plan Act” and the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which made inflation skyrocket to nearly 4%.
  • He claimed to have instituted record new employment when he’d simply reclaimed the jobs that he’d previously shut down.
  • He gutted the defense budget, giving China the chance to meet and exceed American strength.
  • He appointed a Supreme Court justice with no qualifications other than being a Black female.
  • He sent the Department of Justice and its George Soros-backed district attorneys on a nationwide witch hunt against Donald Trump.
  • He refused to allow our military to take out the ragtag Houthis, who continue to snipe our Navy and allies.
  • He actually encouraged the second Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • He sidetracked congressional approval by sending billions of U.S.-paid-for defense equipment to Ukraine.
  • He reacted slowly to Hurricane Helene devastation but immediately to the California fires.
  • He just declared, like Nicolas Maduro, that the Constitution should have a 28th Amendment added without proper process.

I’m just as partisan as anyone else, and my emotions run high on lots of issues, but using the newspaper to inflame an already disjointed society does nothing other than breed radicals. Whether Mr. Sowers likes it or not, the American citizenry of our democratic republic has decided that the communist agenda of the Biden administration has ended. In a historic election that reelected a president who had lost his previous bid, Donald J. Trump has become only the second man since Grover Cleveland to regain office in nonconsecutive terms. Thanks to many open-minded, objective Democratic voters, he won the Electoral College and the popular vote, and his policies secured both the House of Representatives and the Senate. May God bless America.

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