Letters to the editor July 21
Tester’s loyalty
The timing of Sen. Jon Tester’s bold election year announcement that he now urges Joe Biden to end his campaign is almost comical.
Where was Tester when Biden opened up the borders?
Where was Tester when Biden jammed through his budget-busting “anti-inflation” bills by one vote?
Where was Tester when Biden turned our military into a useless woke force of DEI incompetents?
Where was Tester when Biden turned his bureaucracy lose on American business, and dismantled the backbone of our oil and electricity infrastructure?
Tester was side by side with Biden virtually every step of the way. Now that the senator is finding himself at electoral risk for the damage he and Biden have done to this country, he suddenly bails out on his mentor and close friend.
Oh, such bravery we are witnessing. What strength and strong character Tester is demonstrating to his constituents back home. What a strong leader he is.
But he is also demonstrating his deep loyalty to the man he so slaveishly followed for the last four years, with a knife in Biden’s back.
That shows me a total lack of character.
Montana deserves better.
— Scott Matthews, Polson
God bless Joe Biden
God Bless Joe Biden. No kinder message has ever appeared on a billboard. This one, located on the Blackfeet Reservation, is prominently displayed alongside U.S. 2, just after leaving Browning heading west toward Glacier National Park.
Whether a supporter or critic of our president, whether a believer in the God described in the Torah, the New Testament or the Koran — or in no such God at all — we should all hold President Biden in our highest esteem every day as he publically ages before us.
I am among those who believe history will judge him as one of our best presidents. But just as many of us have had to make the difficult decision to take the car keys away from an aging parent, it’s time for uncle Joe to turn in the keys to the Oval Office.
Ideally they won’t land back in the hands of the most disgraceful man who ever worked there.
Of course Joe has made mistakes: allowing Clarence Thomas to go to confirmation by the Senate without hearing corroborating testimony on Anita Thomas’ allegations; his vote to allow the use of force in Iraq. Those are among the most egregious that come to mind. But they shouldn’t tarnish all that he has done for his country.
Stepping aside would be his second-to-last courageous act. His greatest may be what he can do for his troubled son Hunter. But for the fact he is a child of the most powerful man in the world, in an era of divisive and destructive politics, Hunter would likely have never come to the attention of federal prosecutors for a crime rarely, if ever, adjudicated.
Joe has the power to pardon his son. No parent should begrudge this most powerful gift a president, ironically a father, could give his son. It would be an amazing act of grace.
— Roger Hopkins, Columbia Falls