By Michael P. Riccards

President Joe Biden’s family is beginning to look like Eugene O’Neill’s dysfunctional Irish American group of losers.

He has, of course, tragically lost his first wife and first daughter in a car crash just as he was elected to the U.S. Senate at the tender age of 29+. His second wife, an attractive woman, left her blue-collar husband for better pastures  and ended up as First Lady. She insists that everyone call her Dr. Jill, based on her EdD, and she teaches English at a community college near D.C.

Biden’s son Hunter is a genuine trouble maker. He has used his papa’s reputation to attach himself to foreign governments and foreign businesses and has exploited  the family name shamelessly. The same is true of Biden’s one brother, who has joined Hunter on the gravy train with a name. Biden’s younger brother expressed sympathy at their brother’s illness, and within the inner circle, the family call him a drunk who  never visited Joe anyhow.

Biden, meanwhile, is feeling a sense of betrayal from the Obama wing of the Democratic Party. First Obama would not let him run in 2016, saying it was Hillary’s turn. Biden was thus put on the back burner four years later in his life span. Now he is obviously suffering the effect of memory lapses. He even called the heroic president of Ukraine “Putin.” That would be like FDR calling Stalin “Adolph Hitler.” Embarrassing, but also maybe dangerous.

Luckily, the Republicans nominated Donald Trump, who became the one-time martyr of Pennsylvania. Trump insists that his near-death experience will not change him. He will still be as nasty as before. Thank God, he was spared. And he added to the ticket the 39-year-old hillbilly from Ohio who insists that our political and social problems come from single cat ladies who refuse to breed and who infect America with their ridiculous feminism. Kamala Harris fits the description to a “T.” We haven’t heard a guy talk like that since the death of Bluebeard.

This nation has four bad years ahead, so we better say our prayers, raise up our kids, and produce some good literature. Here in Florida, a politically conservative woman has approached a school board insisting that a comic book or graphic novel contains oral sex and must be driven from the school libraries. How she found that novel is anyone’s guess.

Michael P. Riccards, a former college president, is the author of 30 books, including “A Republic If You Can Keep it.”

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