Commentary
Biden
President Biden’s criticism of Israel’s approach to the war against Hamas, calling military operations in Gaza “over the top,” and saying that the suffering of innocent people has “got to stop,” came after he returned to the lectern while leaving his address to the nation on the special counsel report on his mishandling of classified documents Thursday night.
It was during this return that he referred to President El Sisi of Egypt as the president of Mexico that again called attention to his memory problem.
But it was the “over the top” comment that struck me, wondering how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would take that.
Asked about in during his appearance on Fox News Sunday, Netanyahu responded in a true political fashion saying, “I don’t know exactly what he meant by that,” when he certainly viewed it as a slam against his determination to defeat Hamas.
He’s also likely to be aware of the reports that Biden often refers to him as an a**h**e.
CAL THOMAS, the 81-year-old syndicated columnist, writing in his Monday opinion piece, reminded readers of Theodore H. White, the biographer known for his books on JFK and Nixon called, “The Making of a President,” suggesting that were he alive today, he might title one about President Biden, “The Unmaking of a President.”
“The deplorable state of the president is obvious to all but those who are desperately hoping to drag him across the finish line in November,” he wrote.
“I’m wondering,” he added, “if he can make it to the end of this term and whether America’s enemies see an opportunity to do things they would probably not do it a fully functioning president were in charge.”
Of course, I thought, all he has to do is tell them, “Don’t!”
RASMUSSEN REPORTS that 29 percent of likely voters think the country is heading in the right direction. Who the hell are they and what are they thinking? At least some of those surveyed have determined they were wrong because a year ago at this time, 35 percent believed we were on the right track.
IN MY FEBRUARY 10, BLOG, “It’s Time to go Joe,” I was again critical of First Lady Jill Biden for supporting his candidacy, knowing as she must, that he is unfit mentally to be president of the United States.
After Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report of his investigation of President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, the first lady not only felt obligated to respond, she did so in a fundraising e-mail saying:
“Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 doing more in an hour that most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy, and vision. His age, with his experience and expertise, is an asset and he proves it every day.”
The president likes to say, “Watch me.” We do, and we see a man who stumbled physically and mentally, a man who had the need to take more vacations in a year than most Americans do in a lifetime.
IT CAME AT NO SURPRISE that an ABC News/Ipsos poll following the report found that an incredible 86 percent of Americans believe he is too old to serve another term.
NOT WIDELY REPORTED was Hur’s comment that a juror “would conclude” that this (the garage) was not where a person should intentionally store what was “supposedly considered to be important classified documents critical to his legacy.”
YESTERDAY, speaking to a conference of county legislators, Biden mocked the finding of the special counsel by making a joke. “I know I don’t look lit it, but I’ve been around for a while. I do remember that.”
Trump
IN MONDAY’S RASMUSSEN REPORT an online survey of 740 likely U.S. voters revealed that former President Trump was most respected as a leader with 42 percent of the respondents. Biden received 21 percent, Obama 17 percent.
Among Republicans, 73 percent identified Trump as the leader they respect most. Democrats were divided between 44 percent for Biden and 30 percent for Obama.
Interestingly, men (25%) are more likely than women (18%) to name Biden the leader they respect most. In fact, more women voters prefer Trump (43%) or Obama (22%) to Biden.
THE VOTE OF WOMEN – “I would say Susie Wiles, a top Trump campaign advisor, is right now the most important woman in American politics,” wrote Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, adding “Who is she in a deep way? What drives her? What does her rise foretell?”
Stay tuned.
Another woman, Toni Holt Kramer (no relation) presides over the support group Trumpettes USA. Once a supporter of Hillary Clinton, she recently said, “It was time for me to consider what is best for the country. I’m convinced this man needs to be president.”
She was the organizer of a grand event at Mar-a-Lago Saturday, “A Golden Evening for a Golden President,” in which attendees paid $850 to $2,500 apiece.
APPEARING AT A GET OUT THE VOTE RALLY in Conway, South Carolina, former President Trump said, “The Biden Department of Justice let crooked Joe off the hook for some of his other egregious crimes, including his brazen theft of classified documents long before he was president.”
Refuting Biden’s claim that the documents were safe in lockable cabinets in his Wilmington, Delaware home, Trump called attention to Hur’s description of the torn boxes strewn over Biden’s garage.
In Hur’s report he referred to the Afghanistan documents located in a “badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil and synthetic firewood.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
