Posted on 08/21/2021 10:29:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For most of the past week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis of his young administration, the president who won the White House on a promise of competence and compassion has had trouble demonstrating much of either.
The chaos in Kabul and his own conflicting messages have left Joe Biden struggling to assert command over world events and seemingly more intent on washing his hands of Afghanistan than expressing concern over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding on the ground.
The tumultuous endgame of Biden’s withdrawal has undercut some of the most fundamental premises of Biden’s presidency — that unlike his erratic, self-absorbed predecessor, he brought foreign policy seasoning, adults-in-the-room judgment and a surfeit of empathy to the Oval Office.
As he has all week, Biden made assertions seemingly at odds with reality. His description of a smoother evacuation contrasted with the continuing confusion at the Kabul airport, where flights were halted for hours Friday until they resumed late in the day. His claim that there was “no question of our credibility” with NATO allies belied the deep frustration in European capitals. And while Biden hailed the “degree of precision” of the operation, he could not say how many Americans were still in danger.
Biden’s stumbles have been particularly striking given that the longtime senator and former vice president brought more experience in national and international affairs to the White House than any newly inaugurated president in more than three decades. But his aides maintain that Americans will look beyond the turmoil of recent days to the bigger picture.
The Biden team’s cold political calculation is that the outrage expressed by the Washington political class and the ghastly images shown by the national news media will have little lasting effect on Americans who will soon forget the messy departure.
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The test is over for competence. He Failed dismally
The “testing” was over years before election day
F-
When, ever, was Biden know for competence?
Seriously, who are they kidding?
Biden is dishonest and has dementia. But is his dementia really a part of his dishonesty. Is he faking dementia? Is he reaching for the sympathy card? Does he get a kick pretending to be sick like a kid who can fool their mom to not go to school? I wonder. Maybe he is the JOKER! Some evil super villain with a clown car full of incompetent officials. They are all a bad joke! It is one tasteless joke after another to bring the country down to its knees. General Milley wearing his LGBTQ colors, open borders to let in criminals, no energy independence, lockdowns, inflation... even a huge rise in the price of gas for their clown car. Yes, incompetence as malevolence on display. Biden is the JOKER.
And we need a millionaire superhero like Trump and a new Boy Wonder to set things right.
Testing?
Wow.
Stolen elections have consequences.
Well, at least the times can be happy there are no more late night tweets from the competent one as opposed to this dimwit.
They wanted Trump out and would have have cared if Mao was running against him.
If you knew the first thing about this nasty piece of work, you darn sure wouldn’t go to him for empathy.
Boy, a humor section in the NYT.
Oh, wait. They’re serious!
“Competence” and Biden should never be in the same sentence. And the “empathy” was Hollywood scripts, NY TV studio photo-cops and total BS propaganda that Joe was just a lunch bucket working guy who feels for the average person. More hilarious humor. His lunch bucket had bribe money-—unless his son Hunter filled it with cocaine as part of a drug buy and didn’t tell Dad.
The NYTimes reports what the CIA wants you to understand.
As Tucker Carlson says, “somethin’s up.” When will the Democrat leadership start to flip in public? Biden get the Cuomo treatment?
“ When, ever, was Biden know for competence?
Seriously, who are they kidding?”
Biden is very competent at influence peddling, for which he was chosen to fill this position.
The NYT knows that.
But the jig is up. They’ll go full bull now. The FDA will give in, demolishing it’s credibility for all time, the Biden admin will ignore the civilians in Afghanistan and all who have any power to prevent the audits will be pressured to turn. As in leave the guns take the cannoli.
When you lose the NY times.
The New York Slimes claims to have competence and empathy.
They are lying sociopaths and vicious propagandists.
That picture of biden makes me laugh Everytime.
Then I realize it’s not a joke.
But I still laugh.
Absolutely correct !!
He’s a total failure.
This is what democrats stand for him and Pelosi .
VOTE THEM OUT ,!!!!
https://youtu.be/lhckuhUxcgA
There is going to be a correction. Always happens through out history.
When it comes, the traitors at the Slimes will not escape justice.
IMO, this piece is not all bad. Those who get spoon-fed their news from NYTimes/Yahoo, imo, don’t dig deep enough, and will take what they read for face value. This article is a negative message of the Biden admin. It gives the sheeple a bad feeling about Biden.
Or am I missing something here?
some of the most fundamental premises of Biden’s presidency — that unlike his erratic, self-absorbed predecessor, he brought foreign policy seasoning, adults-in-the-room judgment and a surfeit of empathy to the Oval Office.
Early Trump hate in this NYT article
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