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
New Open Thread is HERE…
This is simply remarkable?
For four long years you have been Joe Bidens staunchest supporter.
You excused his flubs, vigorously applauded his successes and then as his deterioration was plain for all to see blithely explained it all away.
Finally ,when some of us here joined the call for his withdrawal,you continued to support his candidacy,going so far as a scant 48 hours before his standing aside to confidently write,” Joe ain’t going anywhere.”
Now a few days before his leaving office you pen a screed that could easily have been the work of his biggest critics!
With friends like you?
Biden didn’t need any enemies.
Unsurprising though.Your well known propensity to attempt to rewrite your opinions after they prove to have been totally wrong is a hallmark of of your ramblings.
I repeat the answer to this point u keep making……
I voted FOR Joe Biden who IS a good man and has been a good President
I have pointed out that he HAS DONE more in 4 years than Trump will probably do in Eight
Biden’s problem’s where in PERCEPTION as I HAVE continually mentioned here…
Afghanistan started the ball of BAD press and set in a bad optic ….
Then efforts to undo Trumps immigration fucks up’s got NO effort to counter the Abbott exports of LEGAL migrants…..
Optics again
Biden efforts get buried with no comment
AGAIN
Biden clean’s up Covid , student loans, infrastructure and getting the country back internationally….
But WITH NO SCREAMING HEADLINES
Just with the DAILY TRUMP CRYING AND WHINING DOMINATING…..
Not media shy Joe Biden
The guy HAS DONE a good job
But nobody knows it
They DO see a convicted felon marching along with the press in tow while ole Joe sits in his office wondering why people don’t see what he’s done…..
Yeah…Riiiight!
Morning folks….
David Brooks ,NYT columnist and sometime Republican,says most billionaires are Democrats.I have no knowledge of that one way or the other.
However, I will note that every Republican tax cut is heavily weighted toward these same billionaires.
Accordingly, if Brooks is right?Then these billionaire Democrats are smart as Hell!Figuratively ,they are telling these Republicans,” Gee thanks guys,now go f*** yourself.”
Good Afternoon….
Joe has just about 24 hours on the government payroll….
The final pardon list isn’t out yea?
Good Morning on the celebration of Martin Luther Jr ‘s Life and Struggle’s….
On this same day we have change in American President’s
The irony of King, Harris, Biden and Trump is Striking!
We Will see how things Go
No play by play here on Trump first day back
Just a view …,
Of a convicted criminal as the President of the United States and his flunkies
WAIT……
The next act begins ❗️😳
Donald John Trump IS NOW the American President again……
Lord have Mercy…….
The second ride begins….
The country has a felony Leader….
Who knew?
Brooks is REALL damn Smart?????
Donald Trump IS RICH….
Money is GREEN….
It ain’t Democratic or Republican…
I’ve been saying THAT about Trump here for YEARS….
More on the point of MY post above….
Once known for his comfort under the spotlight during his long pursuit of the White House, Biden seemed almost allergic to wielding the social-atmospheric powers of that office after he finally got there….
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Why Biden felt he couldn’t apply that same pressure is a question that will hang over both his presidency and the Middle East itself. But part of the explanation may simply be that it wasn’t in his character to put the screws on.
As Tom Malinowski, the former congressman from New Jersey, put it: Biden “believed in our values but not our power. Whereas Trump believes in our power, but not our values.”
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“I look back on Biden as the most successful domestic president of my lifetime given the degree of difficulty he faced. . . . Even on foreign policy, he had great values and goals and management of our democratic allies,” said Malinkowski. “But he was lousy at dealing with thugs—including thugs who pretend to be our allies—and it tarnished his legacy and America’s global standing.”
More…
Yes we all know how uh “ right” you always are .
Silly
What an awful inaugural address, full of vanity, megalomania, vindictiveness, grievances and threats and devoid of generosity, kindness, charity, knowledge , intelligence or common sense.
Pop quiz for bright eighth-graders in 2027:
Does Mount McKinley border the Gulf of America?
Does ending vaccine mandates improve public health?
How do higher tariffs decrease the price of goods?
Morning people…..