Newsmax: This was a checkmark news conference. I did it and I’ll see you in a few months.
That’s exactly what I said back thread.
Newsmax: This was a checkmark news conference. I did it and I’ll see you in a few months.
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Exactly. And reporters and questions arranged in advance. And reading from a teleprompter. Still ... surreal.
And yet, he rose to the occasion, mustering just enough cognition to make no huge blunders and to allow the media to cover for him — especially since practically no one was watching. The news media will all declare this a huge success.
Mark today as the high water mark of this Presidency. There is so much stuff hitting the fan even now; his poll numbers (never very good) are dropping; our adversaries around the world are not at all fooled and will take advantage; and the American people, even the left, have a reasonable sense of what’s going on. This buys Biden a few days, perhaps even 2-3 weeks. But he and his Administration are on borrowed time.