Joe Biden leaves the Oval Workplace the identical approach he entered it: in a foggy state of delusion.
On Monday, Biden defended his overseas coverage legacy throughout a speech on the State Division, arguing the USA is stronger on the worldwide stage and its enemies are weaker.
“I come right here to the State Division to report back to the American individuals on the progress we’ve made within the final 4 years,” the outgoing president stated, “in our overseas coverage, in our presidency.”
He added that, throughout his 4 years in workplace, American alliances have been strengthened and argued that the USA “as soon as once more is main, uniting international locations, setting the agenda, bringing others collectively behind our plans and visions.”
His handle got here three days after Biden held a uncommon press convention within the Oval Workplace and instructed reporters that, had he not dropped out of the race after a stumbling debate efficiency, he “would’ve overwhelmed Trump, may’ve overwhelmed Trump. And I feel that Kamala may’ve overwhelmed Trump, would’ve overwhelmed Trump.”
Biden’s lack of self consciousness is a shocking phenomenon. On what foundation does he make such a declare about his prospects? Democrats pushed him off the ticket exactly as a result of he trailed Donald Trump by a large margin, they usually feared a November landslide. As for Kamala Harris, did the president sleep by the 2024 election, when Trump swamped his vp, who misplaced each swing state?
Harris even ran as a surrogate of Biden, telling voters she would have executed nothing in a different way.
As for his overseas coverage revisionism, the president’s boasts are risible. His botched withdrawal from Afghanistan despatched a message of weak point and emboldened our adversaries. Biden was impotent within the face of Putin’s Ukraine assault, and China has been flexing its muscle mass with minimal consequence. In the meantime, Iran and its proxies launched an assault on Israel, resulting in a full-blown disaster within the Center East.
Solely after Israel aggressively asserted itself and its proper to exist — ignoring fixed criticism from a Biden White Home seeking to appease progressives and terrorist sympathizers — was Iran uncovered as a paper tiger. Hezbollah and Hamas at the moment are considerably diminished, it’s true — for that, Biden can thank Israel for turning a blind ear to his personal recommendation.
Biden gained election in 2020 by 4 factors, and Democrats had slim edges within the Home and Senate. But he satisfied himself that he had gained an enormous voter mandate and will govern as the following FDR. The outcome was a return to Carter-era inflation, $5 a gallon gasoline, hovering rates of interest, a extra harmful world and a failed re-election bid — irrespective of how a doddering and delusional Biden hopes to spin it in any other case.
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