Commentary

The shoe is on another foot – his – and President Biden doesn’t want you to see it as many of us do.

Surely, you will recall how candidate Biden criticized President Trump for being a “cheerleader for the nation” during the pandemic. 

“I don’t want to be Mr. Gloom and Doom,” President Trump said during an ABC News interview, “I’m not looking to tell the American people … when nobody really knows what’s happening yet … oh this is going to be so tragic.  I want to be a cheerleader for our country. I want to be optimistic.

“We have to be warriors,” he said, “we can’t keep our country closed down for years … we have to do something,” while conceding what the country had gone through “the worst attack we’ve ever had.”  He wanted a calm citizenry, not one in panic.

FAST FORWARD to the Biden administration’s view of foreign policy.  No more America first.  We’re returning to a coalition of our allies to form a consensus when a bad actor surfaces.  He is confident that his global togetherness style of foreign policy is the answer to solving sticky issues.

As Biden was leaving the stage after his Wednesday press conference, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins fired a question regarding his confidence in changing the behavior of Russian President Putin.  She was questioning the optimism of consensus.

Visibly rattled, Biden returned for a face-to-face encounter with Collins.  “What the hell?  What do you do all the time?  When did I say I was confident?”  Perhaps he didn’t specifically use that word, but he repeatedly refers to the coalition of allies working together being the answer to solving world problems.

She asked a fair question.  Does he seriously believe that if the rest of the world reacts to Putin’s antics, diminishing his standing in the world alone will change things?

When Collins questioned how the meeting with Putin could be considered constructive since the Russian president denied the cyberattacks, denied human rights abuses and refused to say Alexei Navalny’s name, Biden walked off, saying “if you don’t understand that, you’re in the wrong business.”

“It was a dark day for democracy. Indeed,” commented Andrew Stiles in the Washington Free Beacon.

“One of the most reiterated of the Biden campaign selling points was that he was going to bring dignity back to the office of president,” noted Stephen Kruiser in PJ Media.

“The aggression he shows when he goes after Collins could be attributable to his present diminished mental state,” writes Kruiser, “but Biden has always been a hothead with the press.  He’s not a bright man, and he struggles while thinking on his feet after being asked a question, whether its tough or not.  He gets frustrated and lashes out.  It’s a decades-long problem.

“You really didn’t see an angry old man lashing out, it was just an optimistic guy taking umbrage with the world’s cynical take on his rose-colored glasses approach. Not dignified by anyone’s definition of the word.”

On the tarmac preparing for his departure from Geneva, Biden apologized to reporters for “being short” with the last questioner.  Collins, appearing on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, said there was no need for Biden to apologize, and that she was just doing her job.  A far cry from what her response would have been if it were President Trump who had called her out.

Now we understand why Biden’s handlers limit his Q&A appearances with the press.  How embarrassing it is to hear Biden commenting that he will “get in trouble” if he strays from their plan.

 LAUGH OF THE DAY – Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe said, “I can’t think of a more successful trip in the 21^st Century than this one.”

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.