TheWiseOldFart

I underestimated President Joe Biden. He is in my top five list of our nation’s greatest presidents. (I have to take a closer look at that sentence; I’m not sure that out of 47 presidents, five of them could be considered “great.”) Unlike any of his predecessors, he displayed the courage to simply “do the right thing.” First, he pardoned his son who was convicted of crimes which are seldom prosecuted. Right-wing politicians conducted a real “witch hunt” into Hunter Biden for years, and I commend a father, who happens to be our President, for his actions. Second, yesterday the President acted with admirable compassion and common sense. “President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.” Add to this part of the story the irrefutable fact that the media ...