Letters to the editor for Jan. 23
Press conference fiasco
President Biden' recent press conference was a dumpster fire, train wreck, belly flop, hot mess of a press conference! From bragging about getting more votes than any president in American history and then claiming voter suppression (you can't have it both ways Joe) to accusing a female reporter of asking a stupid question (If Joe were a Republican the Democrats would be accusing him of being sexist) to accusing anyone opposing his agenda to be racist! But, when President Biden said that a small incursion into Ukraine would be tolerated the President of Ukraine became outraged. So, now we have an international crisis on our hands. Some in the mainstream press actually praised President Biden for standing at the podium for about 2 hours. What they totally miss is the stupidity, absurdity and downright foolishness that came out of President Biden' mouth during all that time. I now know why President Biden doesn't give press conferences often. His mental decline and absurd rhetoric is not for public consumption. And lest I forget the vaunted White House press neglected to ask about the Southern border, or crime in Americas streets. The 2022 midterms can't get here soon enough. God help America.
Brent J. Lewis
Cedar City
Biden, Romney have common failing
Both President Biden and Senator Romney are activated by an understanding of religion that might best be described as Christianity Lite.
They feel called to seek unity, never be judgmental, be a loving neighbor to all, and take a soft-shoe approach to knotty public problems.
Biden and Romney do not want to alienate anybody, because they believe that everybody can ultimately be talked into Christianity Lite. They can’t. Christianity Lite is a place where forgiveness takes place without repentance, everybody just loves each other without accountability, and friendly service to others is all that matters in life. The powerful will never go there.
Both Biden and Romney need to learn how to speak truth to corrupt power. Biden can never just sweet-talk trust-violating corporations into good behavior. He has to identify them as the blood-sucking, greedy hoodlums that they are, and obtain consensus to bring them into line with Constitutional priorities.
Romney needs to read the words of ancient prophets like Isaiah, who criticized those who “join house to house, that lay field to field till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.” Miserly treatment of the poor is the basic policy of Romney’s Republican party today.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross
This article originally appeared on St. George Spectrum & Daily News: Letters to the editor for Jan. 23
