Navy Joan Roberts with her mother Lunden Roberts

Dear Commons Community,

Maureen Dowd, in her column yesterday, offered advice to President Biden and his wife, Jill, to accept the fact that they have a seventh grandchild, who was fathered by their son, Hunter.  The child is Navy Joan Roberts, a little 4-year-old girl living in Arkansas who none of the Bidens have ever acknowledged.  Her mother,  Lunden Roberts, was a stripper.  Dowd comments:

“I have sympathy for Hunter going into a “dark, bleak hole,” as he called it. I have sympathy for a father coping with a son who was out of control and who may still be fragile. With Hunter, his father can seem paralyzed about the right thing to do.

But the president can’t defend Hunter on all his other messes and draw the line at accepting one little girl. You can’t punish her for something she had no choice about. The Bidens should embrace the life Hunter brought into the world, even if he didn’t consider her mother “the dating type.”

The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead.”

Excellent advice, Mr. President!

Tony

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