Joe Biden Regrets …Not ‘Flashy’ Enough and More…….

I agree….

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I agree his fighting against making money hurt him in the end…….

I will add?

His thinking like a backgrounder US Senator …NOT a US President that uses ATTENTION to dominate the media….

Earlier this month, in remarks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Mr. Biden spoke about his long-held belief that the key to strengthening the American economy is through bolstering the middle class. But he paused just long enough to touch on a story that he has shared countless times as a candidate and office holder. “For 36 years, I was listed as the poorest man in Congress,” he told the crowd with a laugh, before adding, “What a foolish man.”

Given the current atmosphere, the joke carried the sting of bitter truth. The billionaires are at the White House gates, ushered in by voters who were again siding with a wealthy man whose politics are antithetical to Mr. Biden’s….

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Aside from joking about his wealth, Mr. Biden has openly stewed over one of Mr. Trump’s flashier — and apparently effective — stunts as president. During the same speech at Brookings, Mr. Biden said he had been “stupid” not to sign his name to Covid stimulus checks that were distributed to Americans early in his term. Mr. Trump emblazoned his signature on checks distributed after a relief bill was passed in the spring of 2020.

Mr. Biden and his advisers learned a little something from Mr. Trump’s tendency to scrawl his name on things. By 2023, signs touting infrastructure projects “funded by President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law” began popping up around the country. But those had little political impact compared with a signed check. Already, misleading stories are circulating on social media about Mr. Trump possibly bringing stimulus checks back in 2025, despite the fact that the president-elect has not detailed plans to issue more money…

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And while his administration has acknowledged mistakes during the chaotic and deadly troop pullout in Afghanistan in 2021, Mr. Biden does not regret pushing forward with the withdrawal….

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The decsion to follow Trump’s intial move from Afghanistan WAS a mistake and cost HIM and other countries….

image…The New Yorker….