Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election campaign is being hailed as an act of great patriotism, of putting the national interest over individual political fortunes.
Patriotism and ambition need not stand opposed; they can and should come together, as they so often do among the men and women who seek power or who seek to retain it.
It is no disrespect to Joe Biden to recall that before finally deciding to end his re-election campaign, he tried hard to avoid doing so.
“I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America’s future, all merited a second term,” he said in his Oval Office address.
Only when the polling and the money started going wrong did he yield to what now seems inevitable.
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