How The Townhall Went

 I tried to watch the Biden-townhall event early this AM, and it's pretty odd....YouTube does have various clips, but they are 'cut' and mostly 3-to-4 minutes only.  So after a good bit  of effort....I finally found the 74-minute CNN-Biden-townhall event.   You can view it here.

So I'll offer four observations:

1.  The two-minute talk over his trillion-dollar deal?  It just didn't sell.  On used-car chatter....I'd give him a '2' out of a '10'.

2. Peppy?  Well....yeah, he was a bit peppy.  More than normal?  I doubt it....Joe seems to get some surge of Adeline with these townhalls.

3.  It's just odd....the number of fact-checkers who appear in the hour or two after the townhall....from both left and right.  Must have been at least ten differing fact-checker views.  If you added up all of these....must have been twenty different Joe-moments which crapped out one way or another.

4.  If I were rating President Biden on incoherent statements (just that alone)....there were probably fifteen-plus moments where he just seemed 'out-of-it'.  Some were just comical moments that I suspect he added for comic-relief (which Joe is probably one of the worst at handling this type of humor).  It's like he's a modern-day version of the 1960's Bob Hope......trying to tell the same type of joke, and no one under 80 years old is laughing. 

All a stage event?  Well....he can't do reporter Q-and-A sessions anymore, without goofing these up.  So he needs the CNN-type episodes where the questions are carefully formatted to fit what Joe can handle.  

What I generally expect for the next twelve months....probably every couple of months....CNN will do a public service open forum like this, and at least allow the public to get some feeling that Joe can answer questions.  Maybe you'd like for him to answer more difficult questions....but this is basically all that Joe can handle.  Just accept that.  If you hated the Trump Q-and-A sessions....you probably don't like the CNN-Joe sessions either.