True. He by now would have closed the US Embassy in Ukraine and handed the keys to Putin. After all, the Ukrainians also let him down on this Biden dirt dig.

Except this thread is about Biden...no??? Who gives a rat's a** about Trump Chuff? For the record, I have doubts about Trump's intellect as well. But why deviate from the topic because it suits you to do so? Start a new Trump thread if you can't get your head around Trump's former presidency. I could care less about him but clearly you are obsessed with him. Even on the BIDEN thread...

People like you make him relevant. Others, like me, prefer to move forward. But you cannot help yourself can you Chuff? Reveals much more about you than about me or Biden for that matter. Care to comment on Biden's presidency? (Not to state the obvious Chuff...but this would be the thread to do so!)

Exactly who is off topic and delusional?

Are you saying that Biden is not impaired cognitively Marton? Really?? Okay so here is video of Biden in 2009 in his farewell Senate speech, notice NO STUTTER and he speaks well - cognition intact and contrast that to today? Your comments reveal your bias and lack of objectivity...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?283385...rewell-address

But keep trying to persuade yourself that Biden is cogent and his only issue is his so called "stutter"! Unbelievable on all levels, but then again, not surprising coming from you.

Here is another c-span link in 2015, again no stutter, he ad libs effectively and please contrast that to his teleprompter speeches today.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?324394...mism-terrorism

Maybe you need to research more and from different sources perhaps Marton? C-span is as objective as it gets...

Also off topic, nothing about Biden.

Still this boring serial defamation of Biden's mental condition.
Please try to move away from such a playground level of debate and give us some rational discussion about Biden's policies and actions.

According to polls released this week

• “A majority of Americans (57%) support vaccine mandates to slow the spread of coronavirus, and 2 in 3 support vaccine mandates in at least one situation.”
• “More than 3 in 5 Americans support the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act, up a net 6 points from October.”
• "Expanding access to early voting: 65% support, 23% oppose"
• "Making Election Day a federal holiday: 61% support, 26% oppose"
• "Expanding same-day voter registration: 56% support, 30% oppose"
• "Expanding access to voting by mail: 55% support, 35% oppose"

Considering his policies is far more interesting and worthwhile than finding fault with how he looks on TV.

Agreed - not to mention that even younger presidents (Bush, Obama) have always aged severely with the extreme pressure of the role. Biden was already showing his age before he won the presidency.

Funny enough, Trump was the only one that didn't seem to age. Probably helped that he didn't take it all too serious ;-)

He was also a one term president that didn't give a fudge about the pressures and focused only on his fame/image - which has been his full time job since the 80's.

This and buckets of orange paint.

So if the approval of policies is there, but generic approval of Biden and intemd to vote for Congress is so poor - wouldn't you agree that the Dems have a massive messaging problem?

I don't deny that.

But this is America, where the image of somebody (or something) is at least as important as the actual person (or thing)...

I think that applies to some Americans (and people in general), but not all. I think that more intelligent people realize that someone's physical appearance is not necessarily a genuine reflection of who they really are. Quite often, it's really just "smoke and mirrors." It is rather pathetic, though, the way some people try to celebritize (that's not a word, but it should be ) the role of the President. But considering how shallow society has become in general, I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise.

One of the things I really do appreciate about Biden, though, is that he's not "eating up" the attention that the role of President brings him. He seems to be much more focused on the actual job itself, and he's not using his role as President as a means to try to demonize others (playing the finger-pointing game) and isn't trying to empower himself by further dividing the nation and encouraging hatred in order to fuel his support base. I have a lot of respect for the ways he's been handling the Presidency in that regard.

So the 1 year anniversary of the worst 1st year in presidential history was yesterday and nobody here commented on it. I guess what is happening with Trump is still much more important. (TDS is strong on the EF)

He gave a terrible speech to at least try to take a victory lap, but it failed. It was rambling, incoherent and he even managed even to give away a part of the Ukraine to Russia. (I guess those Burisma checks to Hunter didn’t clear this month :P )

https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/bidens...tter-disaster/

It was not a speech but a press conference in which he answered many many questions and for the 10 mins I saw of it seemed prepared, eloquent and sharp.

The Ukraine bit was indeed surprising but then also credible in my eyes. No one believes the same massive response is coming for a "small excursion" as for a full blown military invasion. Drawing red lines here is something that can quickly backfire.

Did you watch it or just read the NY Post article?

Shocking that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted with the GOP against the voting rights Bill, they could have achieved the same result by simply not turning up to vote.

Hope they will face successful Primary challenges, not that it helps Biden.

Wonder what Biden's next move will be? I suppose he could write an Executive Order to do the same, likely it would eventually fail in court but by then the 22 elections would be over.

I watched most of it last night, and I agree 100% that it seemed well-prepared, eloquent and sharp (as you phrased it so well). I know there are people here who will disagree with me, but I really like Biden's attitude. You can tell that he's trying his best to not "fuel the fire" when it comes to division between the left and the right. I think it's also all the more clear that he is very much focused on the real issues that the role of President of the US brings and is doing his best to ignore the bulls*** and not be distracted by it.

I did stay up and watch it, couldn’t get through all the way because it was just so bad at the end. (Also I had to get up early) I don’t consider it a press conference if all you are doing is calling on pre-selected reporters from publications of choice. Imagine the outrage if Trump called reporters from Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, Breitbart and maybe 1 from CBS News.

I agree, the first few minutes were rather on the eloquent (for him) side. Not too many mistakes and it seemed the thoughts were organized. It quickly devolved even before he went to the questions.

Several points were infuriating....like when he said during Trump’s time the shelves were 91% stocked and now they are 88%. It’s just minimizing a clearly visible issue in the US.

Blaming large companies for the high prices when they are due to his actions is also beneath the pale. His plan is to encourage basically a splitting down of meat producers into smaller distributions with no scale.....not sure that will lower the prices.

The whole lying that he compared large amounts of Americans to George Wallace (his old buddy) Bull Connor (who nobody under 60 really knows) was also egregious

There were the weird moments too when he would just ramble and conclude “I probably shouldn’t be telling you that” or completely losing his train of thought. My feed was buffering a few times and I honestly did not notice a difference.

So yes, 10 minutes were ok. I think that’s all he can muster at the moment. It’s just not enough for a president.

So the bar has been set so low now that it's considered a success if President Biden can get through a press conference without having a senior moment

I'm not sure how the President's first year could have gone much worse. Will inflation overtake his approval rating?

Well, I think our biases also have a way of shaping our perceptions. If you think Biden has dementia or is incompetent (or want him to be incompetent), you're going to perceive him that way and subconsciously look for things to validate your biases. For example, one loss of a train of thought or one stutter somehow becomes a sign of dementia, when the fact is, anyone at any age can lose their train of thought and particularly when they're nervous and speaking to a large audience and trying to focus on answering multiple questions and trying to remember what a question was that had been asked five minutes prior to you speaking about a different subject. (Many of the reporters there last night were asking multiple questions at once). I think Biden was doing his best to be succinct and on-point but also trying to be careful to not say anything that could easily be blown out of context, since clearly that is something that people who do not like him are good at doing.

I do think Biden's hands are tied in many ways when it comes to supply chain issues, and the fact is, that is something that many other countries are experiencing in the world right now, including an increase in gas prices, inflation, etc. So to blame those things on Biden is basically ignoring the fact that it's not solely an American-issue. Biden isn't a magician and doesn't pretend to be, but I think he showed last night that he's doing his best to try to resolve these issues according to whatever means is within his power and that he does care about any Americans who are suffering or struggling financially. It's not like he can just waive a magic wand and force companies to charge less, and the price of gas, etc. is not something that he controls directly. I think his comment about meat and meat prices was in reference to him trying to put a stop to the biggest meat companies having a monopoly on meat prices and that perhaps more competition among a larger variety of companies will equate to more competitive pricing.

Well, there is clearly nothing that Biden can do that you would approve of. When he gives a nice, coherent press conference, rather than acknowledging it for what it is, you choose to find a way to only find fault with it and continue your nonsense about him having dementia because well, it's much easier to do that than to acknowledge the fact that someone who actually has dementia would not be physically able to give a press conference like that.

If Trump was President right now and inflation was occurring (and it would be), would that be Trump's fault as well? Inflation in Europe right now and in other parts of the world.. Is that also Biden's fault?

If trump was president right now, Jim Acosta would have been screaming the whole conference....Mr President, what are you doing about the inflation. CNN would have a live ticket tracking the inflation to the hundredths place. So, if Trump were president, he would be blamed for it absolutely....

As for gas prices, nobody formed Biden to kill the Keystone Pipeline and other pipeline projects that would have ramped up domestic oil production and made it difficult for OPEC to come in and start to take advantage of the current conditions and lower production.

Inflation, pouring trillions of dollars and wanting to pour more and more trillions with BBB is surely not a good step to curb it. Even if that money has not yet been fully spent, it's coming and anticipation can drive inflation. So can not encouraging people to get to work but stay at home and collect their free government money. The ones that do want to work but choose not to be vaccinated he basically told to F-off. (again, great uniter)