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Something Is Wrong with the President
National Review ^ | August 19, 2021 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 08/19/2021 12:17:25 PM PDT by billorites

On the menu today: The transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos dropped, and the president’s incoherence, insistence that he was incorrectly briefed, denial that he was warned by his military advisers, and oddly low profile in the past week raise troubling questions about his ability to perform his duties.

What’s Going On with President Biden?

After making no public appearances for four days — during a major foreign crisis — President Biden read a 20-minute speech off a teleprompter on Monday afternoon and took no questions. He immediately returned to Camp David. He had no events on his schedule Tuesday. On Wednesday, he gave another 20-minute speech about vaccine boosters off a teleprompter from Camp David, and again took no questions. Also on Wednesday, the president sat for an on-camera interview with George Stephanopoulos that did not go well. According to the White House public records, Biden has had two phone conversations with foreign leaders in the past ten days — one with Boris Johnson and one with Angela Merkel.

As of this writing, Biden has no public events on his schedule for today. He is scheduled to receive the president’s daily briefing from the intelligence community and meet with his national-security team. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, he is scheduled to return to his house in Delaware today.

This is a highly unusual schedule for a president during a foreign-policy crisis. Yes, a president can perform his job anywhere, whether it’s Camp David or his own private residence. But Biden is barely appearing in public, not saying much of anything when he does, not answering any questions outside of his lone scheduled interview, and sounding angry when he did face questions from Stephanopoulos.

Biden began the interview by insisting that the intelligence community

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To: billorites

Wonder if they thought biden would be functional for 2-4 years.
Hope so..hope their plans are getting all screwed up.
Harris must be a mess or they would have had her take the reigns.
Which may have been a major mistake as well. Hope so.

I doubt pelosi is up to the task either.


81 posted on 08/19/2021 12:55:11 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: billorites

Joe Biden will die of natural causes prior to December 25, 2021. In on the pool before anyone else.


82 posted on 08/19/2021 12:55:40 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I wouldn’t be surprised if they want to get him back home so that he’ll be in familiar surroundings. People in his condition probably do better cognitively in very familiar environments.


83 posted on 08/19/2021 12:56:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
I wouldn’t be surprised if they want to get him back home so that he’ll be in familiar surroundings. People in his condition probably do better cognitively in very familiar environments.

Maybe petting the dog helps him.

84 posted on 08/19/2021 12:57:28 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: billorites

Where’s Jill???


85 posted on 08/19/2021 12:58:26 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: billorites

Biden can’t handle the truth — or the job.


86 posted on 08/19/2021 12:58:31 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: qaz123

Remember, most of the clowns at NR are bots or useful idiots, descendants of the ex Communists/Trotskyites who surrounded Buckley. They never completely get over their worship of power and love of money to be gotten in the implementation of the Managerial Revolution which morphs into a new form of Fascism.

N.R has few if any totally principled Conservatives supporting a free market, small businesses, small government and the Constitution.

Exceptions at NR noted.


87 posted on 08/19/2021 12:58:31 PM PDT by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: billorites

Stealing an election and installing a potato brain puppet has consequences.


88 posted on 08/19/2021 12:58:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Engedi

Me too. Still haven’t heard any questions why Biden’s nose was all marked up and discolored the day he gave his Afghanistan briefing. I have recalled other presidential vacations with plenty of photos. Reagan on his ranch, GHWB in his off shore boat, GWB, at Kenebunkport, Clinton’s dancing under a waterfall (hilarious) Obama in Hawaii, golfing, Trump golfing (although he never took a real vacation). There has not been one shot of Biden vacationing,


89 posted on 08/19/2021 12:59:04 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: cgbg

I read the whole thing—he sounds like a senile fool

************

He’s not much worse than Milley and Austin. Did you see that debacle of a press conference yesterday. Word salad was the only thing on the menu.


90 posted on 08/19/2021 1:00:10 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: billorites
the press made this senile empty suit strawman and now don't know what to do...
91 posted on 08/19/2021 1:00:11 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: billorites

the important questions from GS were pre-arranged .
any ‘anger’ from Biden was staged.
everything is staged

everything
that includes unpleasant questions


92 posted on 08/19/2021 1:00:49 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: MagUSNRET

Those who cared for the declining elderly wrestling with severe cognitive and memory loss recognize these frustrated bursts of anger. Normally it’s just a sad turn of events, but here it’s downright scary.


93 posted on 08/19/2021 1:01:38 PM PDT by topfile
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To: MagUSNRET

Those who cared for the declining elderly wrestling with severe cognitive and memory loss recognize these frustrated bursts of anger. Normally it’s just a sad turn of events, but here it’s downright scary.


94 posted on 08/19/2021 1:01:52 PM PDT by topfile
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To: RayChuang88

Yep. Female, minority, veteran, and seemingly reasonable.
Maybe her reasonable talk was the problem.

Before anyone lectures me, I know her voting record.


95 posted on 08/19/2021 1:02:12 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RayChuang88
Why didn't they push Tulsi Gabbard?

IMHO, Tulsi while being liberal in many of her views probably loves her country. She also probably is not an evil pedophile that they could control.
She probably would not sell out her country.

96 posted on 08/19/2021 1:02:14 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: amihow

Precisely.....Nothing but clones of Kristol and the other Country Club Republicans that love to vacation on the Vineyard and call Democrats some of their closest of friends.


97 posted on 08/19/2021 1:02:28 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: billorites

Why?? We’ve known for years zhao biden is quite possibly the stupidest human on the face of the earth.

Is anyone really surprised by what’s gone on since January 21?


98 posted on 08/19/2021 1:03:55 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Fungi

I don’t know about that, but the Church of Rome exhumed John Wycliff’s body after being buried for 44 years, so that they could burn his corpse for being the man who first translated the Bible into English language so that the Catholics couldn’t hide the truth so easily and the people could find out for themselves what the Bible really said. Talk about sick, twisted vindictiveness.


99 posted on 08/19/2021 1:04:47 PM PDT by Old Yeller (We're a nation of surprisingly talented people run by the least talented of us.)
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To: billorites

Joe is cued up by the Carlisle Group. https://www.tcgrecruit.com/
He is doing their job: dismantling the USA


100 posted on 08/19/2021 1:06:55 PM PDT by Broker (Truth & Transparency & Equal Justice)
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