By Jim McCraw

Joe Biden took the oath of office just two weeks after the Capitol riot, the previous president’s attempt to steal the election, and he has been fighting an uphill battle ever since.

First, he has been fighting a Republican opposition that has, over time, become obstructionist, pure and simple.  

Second, against not one, but two variants of the Covid-19 virous. With a razor-thin majority in the Senate, he ran into obstruction over Build Back Better and voting rights. Then inflation hit gas stations and grocery stores.  Last week, the stock market tanked after months of bull-market performance. And it’s all Joe’s fault. Just ask the Republicans, whose only idea and platform for 2024 is to re-elect Donald Trump.

The last president who had to deal with a pandemic was Woodrow Wilson, more than a century ago, when the population was 105 million, and there was no radio, no TV, no internet, and no CDC.  Now, with 330 million citizens and modern communications, Biden faces conspiracy theories keeping a large chunk of the population unvaccinated. 

On top of all the other negatives piled on the Biden administration comes Vladimir Putin with territorial claims against Ukraine. Biden’s loudmouth predecessor didn’t have anything like this heaped upon him in his Year One, and he didn’t do anything constructive anyway. The American public needs to cut Joe Biden some slack, and it sure would be nice if some Republicans stopped their obstructionism and help get things done.