In the last days of his one term Presidency Joe Biden confronts his failure to understand that the American Presidency REQUIRES SELLING…
Not just making hard decisions…..
You can even be a crook…
It don’t matter….
Americans WANT STRONG President’s Regardless….
Joe?
You NEVER deveated from being a Senator and Vice President…
Jobs that have ya in the background….
You became President of the United States of America….
Quietly….
No News Conferences….
No feeding the Media….
That was NOT enough…
NOT projecting YOURSELF AS President….
OUT LOUD….
The guy ya beat for years ago
Figured THAT out
After his whining and crying about his loss
He made SURE he got the attention ya gave up Joe….
“President Joe Biden said a key regret of his four years in office was not taking more credit — and reminding voters — of his administration’s accomplishments, including infrastructure and Covid relief spending,” CNN reports.
Said Biden: “The mistake we made was — I think I made — was not getting our allies to acknowledge that the Democrats did this. So, for example, building a new billion-dollar bridge over the river, we’ll call it the ‘Democratic Bridge,’ figuratively speaking.”
He added: “Talk about who put it together. Let people know that this was something the Democrats did, that it was done by the party. That’s different than me writing a check and me signing a check and saying I did it.”
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“The people closest to President Biden were well aware that he had changed. He talked more slowly than he had just a few years before, needed to hoist himself out of his seat in the presidential limousine and walked with a halting gait,” the New York Times reports.
Said Biden strategist Mike Donilon in 2022: “Your biggest issue is the perception of age.”
“They rearranged meetings to make sure Mr. Biden was in a better mood — a strategy one person close to him described as how aides should handle any president. At times, they delayed sharing information with him, including negative polling data, as they debated the best way to frame it. They surrounded him with aides when he walked from the White House to the waiting presidential helicopter on the South Lawn so that news cameras could not capture his awkward bearing.”
“They had Mr. Biden use a teleprompter for even small fund-raisers in private homes, alarming donors, who were asked to provide questions beforehand. They came up with replacing the grand steps that presidents use to board Air Force One with a shorter set that led directly into the belly of the plane. They chastised White House correspondents for coverage of the president’s age.”
Note….
On the age question ….
Optics….
Donald Trump is only a few years younger then Biden…
But he projects NOT as stiff guy, who hides from the press….
BTW?
The Governor of Texas is in a wheel chair and he’s got no trouble flexing….
image…WHYY
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