Posted on 08/16/2021 9:09:28 AM PDT by Magnatron
After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything, the Biden argument was that the country badly needed a steady hand on the tiller -- someone who had been there and done that. Someone who didn't need training to do the job. Someone who was exactly the opposite of the guy currently in office.
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Seven months into his first term, however, Biden is faced with nothing short of a crisis of that competence, beset on a number of fronts with developments that it appears all of his experience and know-how didn't prevent.
The glaring example is, of course, the rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in the wake of Biden's decision to pull American troops out of the country.
In announcing the end of the American military commitment in Afghanistan just over a month ago, Biden had proclaimed that "there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States in Afghanistan." Except that over the weekend, images were beamed back to the United States of helicopters airlifting people from the parking lot of the US Embassy in Kabul. And on Monday morning came even more devastating images: Afghans clinging to an American plane as it took off from the country.
The overwhelming message? The situation was totally and completely out of control -- and neither Biden nor his top foreign policy advisers could stop it. While the crisis in Afghanistan is front and center in this reexamining of Biden's competence argument, it's far from the only data point in that conversation.
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Because it likley wouldn’t pass !
Not passing it would be more politcally damaging then not doing it. After 2022 it maybe be a different story.
So far, Chairman Zho has made Jimmy Carter look like a solid leader.
I don’t think Cillizza’s characterization of Trump as incompetent in everything is going to age very well. It was Biden’s team, and they alone, who decided to renege on the Trump agreement. That agreement was certainly more competent than anything Biden offered and far more competent than what has actually happened.
Heard on the radio that Kammie was put in charge of the withdrawal on April 25,2021.(Can anyone verify?)
They’re throwing her under the bus, I see.
In fact, I’ve been saying on Twitter that Biden may not last till the end of this week. When the Establishment Media wants him out....
John McCain used to say if you want to clear a room bring Joe
They managed to attack Donald Trump in the first paragraph so the censors allowed the rest of the article...
It really set the stage, didn't it? I read a couple more, while seething. They just won't quit.
Oh man! When CNN gets frosty you are toast.
“After four years of Donald Trump’s incompetence in, well, everything”
CNN no longer wants to be considered a news organization?
Jimmah Carter is smiling; he’s no longer “the worst”.
So did I. Nothing is more incompetent doing a job than CNN.
This “facing a crisis of competence” bologna has been going on since the 1950’s.
Joe Biden to Andrew Cuomo: “Hold my beer”
Chris Cillizza lied about Trump and Russia for four years. He’s not a journalist.
> It’s more like an attack on Trump again <
Yeah, they couldn’t resist writing that first sentence. Trump has NOTHING to do with whether or not Biden is competent. But they just couldn’t resist taking a swipe at the Donald. It’s in their DNA.
because they are on his side.
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