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Biden* Is Back at the G20, and the Embarrassment Continues
Quote:Joe Biden is back at the G20, this time being hosted in New Delhi, India, and it wasn't long before the embarrassment started.
The president faced criticism prior to the trip after stating that had "a lot going on" when challenged on why he still hadn't visited East Palestine, OH. What he has going on doesn't seem to be helping the United States, though.
Things started off with a repeat of something that seems to happen to Biden every time he meets with world leaders. Namely, he gets confused while appearing for just about any photograph.
It's not even really the bit of confusion that strikes me the most about that clip. Rather, it's just Biden's general feebleness. He walks like you'd expect a nursing home resident to walk, being led into position by the President of India. Even his attempted smile for the camera is just odd. He constantly projects as someone who isn't all there.
But that's not really the embarrassing part. Rather, it was Biden's introduction of and interaction with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
I keep suggesting to the president's handlers that they need to bar him from ever trying to pronounce anyone's name, and they just won't listen. Regardless, the abject confusion shown by Biden is just a bad look for the United States. If he can't read his notes, stop putting him in positions where he has to read notes. "At any rate, I'm gonna stop there" needs to become him just not starting at all.
Now, let's get to the interaction between Biden and the Saudi crown prince because as a matter of coherency in U.S. foreign policy, it matters.
A handshake is a handshake, but this one happened with a lot of history behind it. One of Biden's primary foreign policy planks was standing up to Saudi Arabia. On the 2020 campaign trail (what little the president was on it), he made proclamations that Mahommed bin Salman was the "pariah" of the world. That was related to the Democrat Party's opposition to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
So what changed? The Saudis are still cozying up to Russia and screwing us on gas prices. Khashoggi is still dead. Did Biden just forget about all his rhetoric?
That's not to say the American alliance with the Saudis shouldn't be maintained. It is to say that the president should be more coherent and consistent in how he approaches it. Not doing so makes the United States look weak and timid. Biden can either approach the Middle East from a realpolitik position or rant and rave about his supposed moral clarity. He can't do both.
Nevertheless, there's a lot of G20 meetings left so this is likely just the beginning for Biden's less-than-stellar performance.
Link
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/10/biden-goes-over-the-edge-in-vietnam-with-softballs-confusion-and-dog-faced-pony-soldiers-n2163634
Quote:Joe Biden was in Hanoi on Sunday, meeting with Vietnam's Communist Party leader, General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng.
After the meeting, he made some remarks and took a few questions from the press. We probably don't even have to say anymore that it didn't go well, you can just assume that there are going to be big embarrassing issues.
Biden started in confusion about whether it was evening there (it was).
I think he was trying to make a joke about "Good Morning, Vietnam," which was a famous Robin Williams movie, not a "famous song." And maybe that's not the best movie to bring up when you're in Vietnam. As my colleague Andrew Malcolm observed in his post about Joe Biden's visit, Biden said his Afghanistan withdrawal would not be as bad as the Saigon panic, but then it was.
But that was the good part. It was all downhill from there once the presser started. Although to be fair, it's not much of a presser when he limits it to five preselected reporters that "they gave me here."
God forbid that he have the free-wheeling extensive press conferences that former President Donald Trump had, he has trouble with just these few pre-selected reporters And you can see him with his prepared notes, getting those ready, so he can read answers off them. Can we ask again who the "they" are that telling the man who's supposed to be the leader of the free world what to do?
It got worse when he got confused about whether he had called on the people he was supposed to.
"I'm just following my orders here," Biden said. If you listen closely, you can hear people laughing.
"Staff, is there anybody that hasn't spoken yet?" Biden asked. He then snapped at someone he hadn't called on who wasn't on his list, "I ain't calling on you."
His policy comment on China is going to have more people wondering if he's compromised or just clueless about the threats posed by China.
That pretty much says it all right there. He doesn't want to keep them in check, and he hasn't. Which is why they have been so emboldened in their actions against us during his time in office.
Then Biden seemed to forget that he was on camera and at the podium and wandered out of frame.
Then he got lost in the middle of this answer about global warming, even though he was reading from his notes. He still couldn't get it right.
"How can I say it?" he said. " "I think we can triple the renewable capacity for as it relates to global warming by the year 202030. 2030." What year was that? And what does that even mean, tripling the renewable capacity for global warming? Whatever he meant to say, that wasn't it.
He admitted to one reporter he'd have trouble even with softball questions.
Even five questions were too much for him. By the end, he was going off into "dog-faced pony soldier" land. This is truly embarrassing.
He's talked about this before, but no one can find the film that he's talking about. Just another one of those things brewed up in the fertile imagination of Joe Biden. What a rambling mess.
Watch as his staff cuts off the press conference even as he's still answering a question from the podium, that's how bad it was going. I don't think I've seen this before, cutting him off mid-word. The staff knew that he was completely off the tracks at this point, and they moved to step in. Then they play music to get him off the stage and cover up anything he might be saying.
Somehow, with Biden, it always manages to keep getting worse. Unfortunately, this is happening on the world stage, and it's endangering our national security.
Even the Liberal Press Noticed How Insane Biden's Vietnam Presser Was, and Democrats Are in Trouble
Quote:As RedState reported, Joe Biden gave a presser for the ages in Vietnam on Sunday. This time, it wasn't just his senility and references to "dog-faced poney soldiers" that raised eyebrows, though.
Instead, the big shocker was seeing Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, walk out to take the mic from Biden mid-sentence, even as he was trying to answer more questions. To make things even more awkward, the president then remained on the stage, rambling away. No one could hear him, though, because of the aforementioned taking of his mic.
It was bad. It was really, really bad. It was so bad that even CNN couldn't ignore what happened, and some of the framing in the liberal network's report is very telling.
However, the president lingered on stage, responding to additional questions about what he said to Chinese Premier Li Qiang before he was interrupted by the press secretary.
Throughout the presser, Biden acknowledged the demands of the whirlwind trip, joking at one point, “These five-day trips around the world are no problem.”
Minutes before Jean-Pierre ended the press conference, Biden had delivered a lengthy answer that involved a rambling explanation of why he uses the phrase “lying dog-faced pony soldier” in an attempt to explain his feelings about politicians who deny the existence of climate change.
Yes, that is CNN describing Biden as "rambling" while noting that the trip appeared to have taken a mental and physical toll on Biden. Keep in mind he's only been on the road for three days, and he travels in the world's most luxurious airplane in the world. When even the left-wing press can't spin the president's obvious senility, that says something big.
They can't let this guy be the 2024 nominee. They just can't. I know Democrats have no good options, with Kamala Harris, one of the most unpopular politicians in modern history, waiting in the wings. But what do they do when Biden has multiple episodes on the campaign trail next year? How do they explain that away when whoever the Republican nominee is appears to be far more capable in comparison?
I understand the goal of Democrats is to make the election a referendum on Donald Trump and January 6th, but even that strategy has its limits. Letting Biden be the nominee is playing with fire, and it's just asking to get burned. Ironically, while Republicans are going hard after the president, the best scenario is probably that he remains at the top of the ticket. If he's going to keep deteriorating at this rapid rate, it's going to be very hard for Democrats to make the case that he can handle another term. Never mind that the economy is likely to be even more in the toilet by election day.
As I've said before, they should have just let Gavin Newsom take the spot. I can't stand the guy and I think he's been absolutely horrific for California. But from a purely political standpoint, he would have much better appeal in 2024 than Biden. That ship appears to have sailed, though. It's Biden or Harris, and both are nowhere near a sure thing to win.
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[NEWS] Biden* Is Back at the G20, and the Embarrassment Continues
