Even if you’ve never seen the movie “The Invisible Man,” and I wouldn’t blame you if you hadn’t because there really isn’t any of them that is good, you get the concept just from the title. You could probably describe the movie just from the title, or at least most of it. But the concept of an invisible man is sort of what Joe Biden is as President. Oh, he’s there – we can tell by how he’s screwing everything up – but when it’s important when the country needs a President, he’s gone. Perhaps a more apt description would be a lesser-known film: “The Man Who Wasn’t There”?
I’ve never seen that movie, but the title sure fits. Or maybe it should be “I wasn’t even in town that month”? Whatever title you slap on it, Joe Biden is as bad of a leader of the free world as he is at parenting. Two degenerate kids out of three, and that’s only because no one has bothered to look into the third. Good people can have bad kids, they don’t have bad families. Joe Biden does.
You could almost forgive it if he were at least mildly competent in his job. He’s not.
Actually, we don’t know if he’s incompetent or absent. When Iran tried to attack Israel (and “tried” is the right word – why are so many on the left and weak-kneed people on the right afraid of Iran, especially before they get the bomb?), original reports had Joe set to address the nation from the Oval Office. Then, they canceled that.
Maybe the weakness of Iran’s effort warranted not responding, but you can’t announce something, then bail on it – you made the call, after having spent years building up fear of Iran, and you’d better have something to say, if only to threaten them. But no, Joe went to bed and his staff tweeted out a weak written statement. For the State of the Union, they could find several hours to write, rehearse, record, and edit a video of the senile fool talking to movie presidents, but they couldn’t get 5 minutes for a video statement on Iran attacking Israel.
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“Earlier today, Iran and its proxies operating out of Yemen, Syria, and Iraq- launched an unprecedented air attack against military facilities in Israel. I condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms,” the statement read. It was released at 11:15 pm, hours and hours after the attack and long after Joe went to bed. Do you think his staff even ran it past him first?
That’s how Biden’s presidency has gone – something happens and they either release a written statement it’s unlikely he was a part of drafting, or they trot him out to read a statement he’s clearly never seen before, then make him run away before anyone asks him a question.
The written statement is usually about foreign policy because, as his friend and Obama’s former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously put it, Joe Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” The problem is, that Biden isn’t smart enough to know how dumb he is, he gets high on his own supply. They can’t have that guy out there even reading a statement because there’s a pretty good chance he’ll ad-lib and say something, well, Biden-y.
When they do let him play President, it’s usually on some economic data they’re desperately trying to spin as a win. In that case, they have to drag him out there quickly, just after the report on jobs, for example, is released so he can be on camera for the nightly news spinning their tale, but out of the room before anyone there reads the report and sees that previous months have been revised significantly downward or the “gains” were actually part-time work.
They can’t have him around reporters once that is known, possibly because he doesn’t know it himself.
White House staff doesn’t seem to tell Joe all that much about what’s happening in his administration and doesn’t really appear to care. He likes the trappings of being President more than the job. He’s old and lazy, but he doesn’t have to drive himself anywhere, he doesn’t have to sit in traffic, he’s got a luxurious private plane at his disposal and a helicopter to get him to it. With a simple phone call, he can have anything he wants to eat, go almost anywhere in the world, and he can pardon his friends and patrons, should the need arise (or the check clear).
It's a great life, and all you’ve got to do is “president” every once in a while. And, as Joe Biden has demonstrated, you don’t have to do it well, or even competently, and most of the time you don’t even really have to do it at all.
