Editor,

As most of you who subscribe to the Biddeford Journal know, Andy Young writes frequent editorials for the newspaper. During the George W. Bush years, Mr. Young was very critical of the president’s policies, especially the decision to send American forces into Iraq.

In the last two years, during the Donald Trump presidency, Andy has been strangely quiet about Trump — until the Sept. 11, 2018 edition of the paper. In that article, he suggests that anyone who voted for Trump should admit their mistake in order to “free” themselves of such a grievous error.

Well, I voted for Trump. Many times during his presidency, I’d have preferred that he say things differently or say nothing at all regarding an issue or a person. I was aware he was a perpetual “skirt chaser” for much of his life. I suspected he “over-promised” on some issues. I was not alone in my concerns of Trump. Yet, he won the election, having gotten the electoral college votes from 30 of the 50 states. My aletrnative to having supported Trump was to vote for Hillary Clinton. In my estimation, she would have been a disastrous president.

If Mr. Young had a more balanced point of view politically, I would not be as critical of him. Where was he during the Obama administration, seldom heard? Did he have anything to say about the Obama administration: 1) cutting back on our military, 2) doubling our deficit, 3) forcing down our throat a health care law that is unaffordable and driving insurance carriers out of business, 4) the Bengazi debacle or 5) drawing a line not to be crossed by Assad, just to name a few. If he did write about them, they didn’t show up in my copy of the Journal Tribune.

Mr. Young apparently likes quotations. Here’s an anonymous one for him. “You cannot correct your mistakes by pointing out the mistakes of others.”

Robert D. Haggett

Biddeford

(Editor’s Note: Since the November 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, columns written by Andy Young critical of Donald Trump have appeared in the Journal Tribune on Nov. 15, 2016; April 5, 2017; Aug. 24, 2017; Feb. 28, 2018; May 15, 2018; June 23, 2018; and Sept. 11, 2018.)