To the Editor:
Re “Biden Is Taking Steps Toward ’16, Supporters Say” (front page, Aug. 2):
The most qualified and accomplished—Joe Biden, John Kerry and Al Gore—are not yet running for president this time, and may well not run again. That says a lot about the sorry state of money, focus groups and media-driven politics today.
Mr. Biden could run unabashedly on the stellar Obama record—a record, despite 24/7 bashing from some media outlets, all Republicans and some Democrats—that stands second to none since Lyndon B. Johnson, or maybe since Franklin D. Roosevelt, a record that Mr. Biden as vice president had no small part in effecting.
JOHN E. COLBERT
Arroyo Seco, N.M.
Note from KBJ: I see that Arroyo Seco has a village idiot.
