Posted on 05/24/2022 10:45:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Friedman’s ultimate takeaway: Biden has been exceptionally good at managing our march to the brink of World War III.
The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman — yes, the Thomas Friedman — ended his most recent and very bland column this week with the declaration that he had “left my lunch with the president with a full stomach but a heavy heart.”
Friedman no doubt left his meeting full and heavy. The article he churned out after his very important meal with President Biden is beyond bloated. Although Friedman said their conversation was off-record, he was gracious enough to tell his readers what he ate and how he “felt” about the encounter. In other words, it’s a typical Friedman column— practically useless.
His ultimate takeaway: Biden has been exceptionally good at managing our march to the brink of World War III. (It was apparently an epic failure that, unlike Biden, Donald Trump couldn’t goad Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine much sooner.)
“What I felt afterward was this,” wrote Friedman. “For all you knuckleheads on Fox who say that Biden can’t put two sentences together, here’s a news flash: He just put NATO together, Europe together and the whole Western alliance together — stretching from Canada up to Finland and all the way to Japan — to help Ukraine protect its fledgling democracy from Vladimir Putin’s fascist assault.”
Well, if that doesn’t make your heart soar with patriotism, I don’t know what will, FOLKS!
The only problem with that Olympian achievement Friedman credits to Biden is that it’s not true. Even if it were, which one of the people who voted for him feels that it made her life any better?
Setting aside that Ukraine isn’t a member of NATO, and thus is, in theory, owed nothing by the alliance, Biden hasn’t shown any degree of remarkable leadership there. He cut off our Russian energy imports, but our tried and true allies in Germany did not follow suit.
Biden requested that our reliable friends in Poland send fighter jets to Ukraine. Their response: No thanks! Great Britain sent their prime minister to Ukraine for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Biden sent his wife. (I believe we shouldn’t be sending Americans to war zones where our national interests are, at best, ambiguous, but so long as we’re talking about leadership…)
The rest of Friedman’s article is a list of excuses for why Biden has been a suck of a president.
It’s Trump’s fault: “a movement by Trump and his supporters … is not propelled by any coherent set of policies, but rather by a gigantic lie…”
It’s Democrats’ fault: “House Democrats also sullied one of Biden’s most important bipartisan achievements — a giant infrastructure bill — by making it hostage to other excessive spending demands. The far left also saddled Biden and every Democratic candidate with radical notions like ‘defund the police.'”
It’s America’s fault: “[W]ith every passing day, every mass shooting, every racist dog whistle, every defund-the-police initiative, every nation-sundering Supreme Court ruling, every speaker run off a campus, every bogus claim of election fraud, I wonder if he can bring us back together. I wonder if it’s too late.”
I’m sure Friedman, a writer at America’s most important newspaper, truly enjoyed his lunch with Biden. It must have made him feel really special to be invited to the White House by the president of the United States.
But it’s time for him to admit what the rest of us have known for a long time now: Biden is an embarrassment and it’s not because of circumstances out of his control. Biden is the circumstance that needs to be controlled.
Thomas Friedman is full of crap at all times.
Posted already -
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4065804/posts
He gave Joe Biden (JB) a BJ for lunch. Which makes me think, what is a backwards BJ because that is what JB is.
Eddie the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey is full of crap.
Oh, I thought maybe it was because Joe’s adult diaper exploded!
Ol’ Tommy needs to wipe the drool off his chin.
I think he went in that way, may have even left some behind!
It’s bad for Dems beyond their worst nightmare if they have lost Friedman.
That ain’t drool.
Cowpies are of more value than Friedman’s learned opinion on anything. Being wrong a thousand times doesn’t mean he’ll ever learn.
“Ol’ Tommy needs to wipe the drool off his chin.”
It isn’t drool.
L
Two pants left lunch with a full load. Their effect on the world economy is a brown smear.
Friedman went there full of crap, so why should he be expected to leave there not full of crap still?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.