Saturday 23 October 2021

Five Basic Mistakes Biden Has Made Since January

 For a guy who spent eight years as Vice-President.....you just stand and admire the landscape of today, and wonder how someone could make five mistakes of such magnitude.

1.  Hiring of 'lesser-people' to be cabinet secretaries.  It goes beyond Mayor-Pete.  Blinken as Secretary of State has been a hit-and-miss guy....meaning 50-percent of what he's done....is crappy work.  Garland as Attorney General?  He's continuingly digging himself deeper into a dead-end....meaning I don't see him in the job by the end of 2022.  

2.  The Afghanistan mess.  All he had to do....sign up to a plan, and let the Pentagon manage this to the bitter end.  The month of August?  A great demonstration of incompetence, and no one will stand up to take the blame.

3.  The Christmas-port business.  As President, you would expect him to walk in and say....'in 90 days, I want the Covid epidemic to wrap up and downsize.  I want the nation going back to normal business.'

In his mind, the epidemic won't conclude in 2021, and I seriously doubt that they can declare 'freedom-day' in 2022.  The port business?  You can view numerous experts talking about this....most don't see this resolved till mid-summer 2022, and some suggest zero potential to resolve anytime in 2022.  

4.  Hunter Biden.  If there ever was a moment when you needed to dump the kid and send the prosecutors after the 'kid'....it's now.

5.  Trillion-dollar deal.  There's a hundred problems with the draft bill, but it essentially goes to his chatter suggesting that 3-trillion dollars of funding....has zero-cost dollars attached.  He repeats this over and over, and each time....looks like a junkie on the streets of San Francisco on some 'high'.  If it was truly zero-cost dollars attached....why not make it a 20-trillion dollar gift deal?  

These are mistakes that President Obama would not have made, and it just leaves you wondering....what's new for mistakes in 2022?

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.