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I’ll start by giving President Biden some credit. I know that may surprise some of you, but he should be commended for standing there for nearly two hours taking questions from reporters. The extended nature of the news conference, which marked the end of his first year in the Oval Office, was clearly done in response to the concerns many have about the president’s mental and physical fitness. It also was an obvious attempt to change the narrative after the numerous failures of the administration which have sent his approval ratings down the trash chute.
However, while, he may have some stamina, everything else on display was arguably more concerning to the American public. The president was remarkably dishonest during the press conference on a number of topics. At one point, he tried to gaslight the American public about what he said during his angry speech on voting rights in Atlanta.
The speech was totally divisive, bitterly anti-Republican, suggested that any of us who didn’t agree with his election bill were racist. I mean, there was no other way to read that speech. And what worries me about it is, I don’t know, to what extent Biden believes his own lies, that when he tells us these things, he’s totally, really being honest.
I’m not sure what’s worse: that the president of the United States could lie so blatantly, or that he could possibly believe what he was saying. Many presidents have lied, of course. Bill Clinton is an excellent example of that. But hearing Biden share so many falsehoods in his news conference was disconcerting. His secretary of state is already on an international clean-up tour after Biden’s remarks about Russia and its possible invasion of Ukraine. But it’s seriously time to wonder if things are only going to get worse as the White House gets more desperate to turn things around.
That could create even more problems for our country.
