In Jay Ambrose’s shallow opinion piece (“Time for Biden to hang it up,” The Columbian, Feb. 17), he mentions four times how Biden is “hiding” or staying “out of sight,” and that Biden is conducting “quiet campaigning” like it’s a bad thing.
Most Americans want a president who is working hard behind the scenes rather than one who holds frequent rallies with no purpose except to stroke his own ego. When Trump was president, he campaigned nonstop, even going so far as to submit the Form 2 declaring his candidacy for 2020 — on his Inauguration Day. No other president has done this, and it enabled Trump to raise money every day he was in office.
Ambrose also repeats Robert Hur’s lies about Biden’s forgetting when his son died or he was vice president, but Hur, knowing he had no legal leg to stand on, merely saved his political allegiance to Trump.
Even George F. Will, another conservative columnist, says Trump “is evidence of America’s retreat from seriousness.” It’s time for Ambrose to stop reaching so hard for evidence that it’s time for Biden “to hang it up” and to acknowledge the constant chaos Republicans bring.
