Quote:It seemed like someone decided on Friday that it would be a better idea to send Joe Biden around to local stores in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, area, rather than having him go off on a confused speech.

I don't think that was a smart idea. The more situations that put him in contact with people, the more likelihood you have of him having a problem because of his confusion. But, truly, either way they're going to have a problem because it's Joe.

It started off badly.

As Joe left the first store, he found out exactly what Pennsylvania voters think of him when someone shouted out, "You're a loser."

Then there was this video, which frankly scares me for a couple of reasons. This guy in a bike store is telling Biden where to go, and you can see him touch Biden and hold him back from going forward, it's not clear why. But check Biden's eyes, it's concerning how bad he looks.

Biden seems to be looking at the ground at one point, maybe looking for the mark they sometimes have him stand on. But if you look at his face, he looks frightened or completely confused as to what's going on. That is not good.

It's not clear exactly what he says here, it sounds like, "I work for the government in the Senate," as RNC Research says, Democrats crashed the comments and claimed he was saying that he works for the governor and the senator who were with him.

But, that would be wrong too.

Then reporters tried to ask him about Iran and the airstrikes the U.S. took against the Houthis. "I've already delivered the message to Iran. They know not to do anything," Biden claimed.

The reporter asked what if they continue anyway, even after the Thursday night strikes. Biden says we will make sure that we respond. But you'lll notice he's bending over at the end of the video. His focus isn't on Iran or the Houthis, but talking to the blonde girl.

The reporters ask it he has confidence in Secretary Austin, he says "I do." Then he whispers to the girl.

He seems to say, "I'm sorry, how you doing" and then something else I can't make out, as reporters continue to ask him questions. She even seems to move a little bit away from him.

"Was it a lapse in judgment for him not to tell you earlier?" he's asked about Austin.

"Yes," he replied.

Then he claimed that we are not in a defacto proxy war with Iran, "Iran does not want a war with us."

But even after helping proxies against us, Biden still released money to them so, truly, how is he putting them off of war?

He was asked,"Are you willing to call the Houthis a terrorist group?"

Then, he said, "I think they are." Well, then why did you delist them as a terrorist group and embolden their actions? Now, he's saying he gets it, after he already messed up.

But even thought he seems to be having difficulty hearing and understanding what's going on, when he offered to pay for coffee for the few people there, he grouses that he might have to pay $6 for it.

He finished up, completely confused, as two workers tried to explain things to him.

Quote:We saw a bit of an odd sight in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Friday, with Biden staff running Joe Biden from store to store, engaging with workers in informal settings, rather than giving a formal speech, that he was bound to mess up.

Turns out this is a part of a new strategy to make him look more relatable and translation: not as old.

Biden, these people said, is taking advice from confidants who’ve suggested he try a more casual approach in public to try to ease one of voters’ chief concerns about his 2024 candidacy: his age.

That means more informal remarks, unannounced stops at diners and appearances in social media posts and on podcasts, as well as fewer ties and Rose Garden ceremonies. The series of subtle shifts, which aides say they’ve proposed to him in multiple conversations over the past few months, are meant to signal that Biden is more youthful than his 81 years might suggest.

Either they're trying to buffalo the media and the public, or they truly believe this. I'm not sure which is worse. Taking off a tie doesn't make you look younger, it isn't the tie or the clothes -- it's the incoherence in the product they're trying to sell. And that will still be there, tie or not.

Listen to this, it's delusional:

“His superpower is his authenticity,” another campaign adviser said. The adviser stressed that Biden’s re-election effort is seeking to put more of that side of him on display in the next 10 months before Election Day.

Aides, who describe him as the “ultimate extrovert,” hope the efforts will also give Biden a boost. They say he often leaves a room with more energy than he had going into it and note that he has prided himself on being a self-described “tactile” politician.

“Campaign Biden is the best Biden,” said Scott Mulhauser, who was deputy chief of staff to Biden, then the vice president, in the 2012 campaign. “Moments like these, in particular, are a terrific reminder of how genuine he is, just how much he loves interacting with folks on the trail and discussing the issues that matter — and how great that is for him and for the campaign.”

Authenticity? Genuine? Biden is constantly telling falsehoods, making up things that aren't true as easily as he breathes. If he were great at campaigning, they wouldn't have hidden him in 2020 and they wouldn't have spent all this time restricting media from access to him now.

They have spent so much time cutting him off from the media (who are generally friendly), but now they're going to run him out to all sorts of informal meetings with random people in situations that they will not be able to control as tightly as speeches. Do they really think that's going to rehabilitate the public's perception of him?

In their first full run of this on Friday, it turned out to be a dismal failure, as I reported. He got confused, a heckler called him a "loser," and he made some kind of weird approach to a girl.

This video is perhaps the best example of the folly of this new strategy. They kept running him around in all kinds of different locations. That requires him to adapt to those things. He looked frighteningly confused as a bike store worker tried to direct him. The worker even appeared to touch him to hold him in place, as Biden seemed to look down for his mark to hit.

This is supposed to be the leader of the free world. This is scary.

Then there's the other problem that's going to keep coming back and biting them: the creepy behavior with girls, including when he sniffs them.

So they're just going to increase the possibility of these things happening? They're going to expose his age to us more?

They going to have far more to deal with than the mistakes in the speeches, if they continue with this.