Joe Biden’s presidency is reeling no matter how much he declares mission accomplished in Afghanistan.
Americans know better. The chaotic images from Afghanistan, the fact that hundreds of U.S. citizens were left behind, and Biden’s MIchael Dukakis in a tank moment — the glance he gives at his watch during a somber ceremony for 13 killed U.S. soldiers — paint a much different picture.
Biden’s poll numbers are collapsing and now endangering other Democrats.
Checking the time at any event is a long held no-no for a politician, as then-President George H.W. Bush learned at a debate against Bill Clinton in 1992.
But when Biden appeared to do it at Dover Air Force Base it felt especially disrespectful to the families of the dead soldiers who were gathered there — and to the country.
Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor, famously sat in a tank for a photo-op in Michigan during the 1988 presidential campaign, looking ridiculous in a helmet as the tank circled around a field. Reporters and others openly laughed, prompting Republicans to run a TV ad of the event mocking the governor.
Dukakis never lived down the event, and was crushed in the November election. Bush’s look at his watch during the debate helped him lose not just the debate but the election.
Even before the watch-checking incident, Biden’s polling numbers were tanking because of his handling of the chaotic and deadly troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
But now Biden is slipping and may never recover. A new poll by Saint Anselm College finds his support collapsing in the swing state of New Hampshire. Fifty-five percent of all voters disapprove of his job performance, numbers that are the same as former President Donald Trump’s. And 62% of New Hampshire voters now say the country is on the wrong track.
Even worse news, Biden’s high unfavorable numbers are hurting other Democrats down the ticket.
White House officials have made no attempt to even spin Biden’s watch-checking, and instead are hoping it just goes away.
“Well, I would say his message to all of the family members who were there, those who were not even in attendance, is that he is grateful to their sons and daughters, the sacrifice they made to the country,” Psaki said when asked directly if Biden looked at his watch. “That he knows firsthand what it’s like to lose a child and the fact no one can tell you anything, that there’s no words that are going to fill that hole that is left by that.”
Psaki’s awkward explanation didn’t satisfy critics, especially Republicans who have blasted Biden’s actions in front of the families of the dead soldiers and the flag-draped caskets.
And by the way, it’s insulting for Biden to keep claiming he knows what it’s like to lose a child. His son, Beau, died of brain cancer, not in the battlefield, and there’s no way for Biden to know what it feels like to have your son or daughter cut down in war. So just stop it.
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Those 13 HEROES did NOT need to die. Unlike beau, it was totally preventable.
And, he still has a son. Many of the parents of those soldiers do not.
Joe Biden’s son Beau Biden died of cancer.
And Beau Biden did not die because of somebody’s stupidity like these 13 killed U.S. soldiers.
This corrupt, demented, puppet president has no honor or respect for anything but himself.
He has no soul, so why would he CARE! He probably only WENT to that ‘welcoming home of the caskets’, because he was TOLD To do so…
Its later than you think, Joe.
It may be a ‘symbol’, but that’s all it will be. I just don’t see enough patriots in office, having the SPINE to oust him, whether via invoking the 25th amendment, or via impeachment.
Was this actually published in the Boston Herald? For the first time in my life, I’m proud of my home-state newspaper!
Biden always pretends he has somewhere else pressing to be when he’s in a situation he doesn’t like. It’s probably a career long tic – 50 years of exiting from messes he’s made, questions he can’t answer. Just a glance at the old watch and a brisk exit to somewhere “more important” that’s a date with an ice cream cone now.
or maybe he was checking on the time, cause he needed his next pill..
That picture needs to be run on every newspaper and internet site during his next run for president. People needs to be Reminded of this during election time.