Commentary
It’s statistically inconceivable that there are not a great many people as tired as I am of President Joe Biden’s compulsion to put on the airs of the tough guy, the back alley scrapper who has fought his way up against all odds from the streets of Scranton all the way to the White House.
Everybody can and should respect that this president had more modest socioeconomic roots than some others: the founding presidents from Virginia and Boston, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, the Bushes, Trump, and even Jimmy Carter. But this president hasn’t had a longer or more difficult climb up the rickety ladder to his great office than many who have preceded him in it, including Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama….