{"id":3603,"date":"2022-04-02T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/were-all-stuck-picking-up-after-this-biden-dud-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T00:21:10","slug":"were-all-stuck-picking-up-after-this-biden-dud-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/were-all-stuck-picking-up-after-this-biden-dud-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"We're all stuck picking up after this Biden dud – New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Don\u2019t underestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f–k things up,\u201d President Barack Obama once reportedly said of Joe Biden<\/a>. But even Obama might be surprised at how close this ability of Biden\u2019s has already come to bringing the world to disaster.
Back when he was running in 2019, the worst thing Biden would do was to ramble on about what a \u201cbad dude\u201d Corn Pop<\/a> was back in the day, telling crowds about his run-in with this likely fictional figure. Back then, as the vice president rambled on, his crowd rambled too, wandering around happily and talking among themselves while the crazy old guy<\/a> kept blathering on stage.
But last weekend, Biden rambled on a more important stage \u2014 in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. And this time he was talking about an even worse dude than Corn Pop: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Once again Biden went off script. But this time, the whole world was paying attention. For the person in charge of the world\u2019s largest nuclear arsenal<\/a> was talking about the future of the man in charge of the world\u2019s second-largest nuclear arsenal. At the end of his remarks, the president said of Putin, \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power.\u201d
So there we were, within a month of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/a> America had started off with a light-touch response. And now the US president appeared to be calling for regime change <\/a>in Moscow — something no American president advocated even during the worst days of the Cold War.
You can easily feel for Jen Psaki & Co.<\/a> at moments like this. For there is now a whole White House team dedicated to following Biden around with a pooper scooper, trying to clear up just such messes. In recent weeks, this squad has had to explain Biden\u2019s remarks to US troops in which he suggested that they were soon going to Ukraine.<\/a> They also had to clarify that when the president said America would respond to any Russian use of chemical weapons \u201cin kind,\u201d <\/a>he did not mean that America would use chemical weapons against Russia.
But the off-script line in Warsaw was Biden\u2019s worst F-up so far. And it was interesting to see the speed with which the White House scooper team<\/a> was deployed. Immediately after the president\u2019s remarks, the White House said the president\u2019s words did not mean what they meant. They then walked back Biden\u2019s comments. But the president himself would not. 
\u201cI\u2019m not walking anything back,\u201d<\/a> he said, claiming that his comments were merely \u201cexpressing the moral outrage that I feel.\u201d
Ordinarily, if a president keeps demonstrating that he cannot remain on script about issues that could lead to nuclear conflict, people start talking about invoking the 25th Amendment<\/a> to the Constitution. Except that in the current case, it seems arguable that this would only make things worse.
After all, were that to happen, the world would then be graced with President Kamala Harris<\/a> — perhaps the only person in America who can make Joe Biden look fully on top of his brief.
Before Biden went to Poland, Harris made her own trip.<\/a> At one point she announced, \u201cI am here, standing here.\u201d To ensure this was the case, she looked downwards, as though determined to do her own research. \u201cOn the northern flank,\u201d she said, before her voice began to tremble and she started playing with her face. Something seemed to suggest to her that perhaps she wasn\u2019t on the northern flank. \u201cOn the eastern flank,\u201d she corrected herself, looking at her feet once more. Perhaps she was hoping to find something in the topography to confirm exactly which flank she was on. At this point, her voice began to quaver and she started to cover her nose. \u201cTalking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank,\u201d she went on, voice wavering.
Close Kamala-watchers know what these strange tics mean. They mean that the vice president doesn\u2019t know what she is talking about. Her voice generally starts to waver whenever she is about to either hyena-laugh (as she did in Poland when asked about refugees) or whip up one of her best word salads,<\/a> as she did again in Jamaica this week. All are signs of being far out of her depth.
But it is the same with Harris\u2019 incompetence as it is with Biden\u2019s. Most of the US media spent so much time berating the last administration<\/a> for incompetence that they seem to believe that \u2014 having eased Biden into office \u2014 they cannot now admit that he is doing anything wrong. 
This week, Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy asked the president about his most recent mis-speaks. This is the same Peter Doocy whom, in January, Biden called \u201ca stupid son of a bitch,\u201d <\/a>to zero outrage from the rest of the usually easily offended US media.<\/a>
When Doocy asked Biden about his gaffes, Biden doubled down. He claimed that \u201cnone\u201d of his recent gaffes<\/a> even \u201coccurred.\u201d So that was that. The next question came from the usual court press, who offered Biden a question he preferred. \u201cYou have more foreign policy experience than any president who has ever held this office,\u201d this courtier started off — a view that Dwight Eisenhower, among others, might have contested. But Biden likes this sort of question. Still he dismissed it because the journalist went on to ask again about his \u201cremain in power\u201d remark. \u201cYou have so much experience,\u201d the journalist kept on. 
\u201cNobody believes I was talking about taking down Putin,\u201d<\/a> Biden retorted angrily. This despite the fact that plenty of people \u2014 including those in front of him \u2014 clearly thought otherwise.
What can be done about this state of things? We live in a country where both the commander-in-chief and his vice president don\u2019t know where they are going and seem often unsure of where they are. More competent members of the administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken,<\/a> seem to keep in the background because those in the foreground keep humiliating them.
All we can hope for is that the midterms change<\/a> the calculus of power in this country. And that if the most senior leaders in the land are determined to go off script at the cost of nuclear war, at least Congress and Senate might be among the growing number of bodies available to clean up after them.
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