As you age, your ability to react quickly tends slow. That’s not a rap on anyone older, that’s just a fact of life that we all will have to face at some point. But then we’re not all the alleged leader of the free world where it may be critically important to not be slow to react, but rather to be able to understand what is going on around us without note cards and to be able to coherently speak.
Joe Biden is in Germany for the meeting of the G-7 — where Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States get together to talk about common concerns. The war in Ukraine is one of the topics on the agenda.
But during the meeting, video picked up an embarrassing moment that hit right on that topic I was talking about — that failure to react in time. The leaders are looking for photographers to capture a group shot. Everybody in the room notices quickly, and they turn toward the photographers. You can hear them shouting, yet, still, Joe doesn’t react. Finally, Biden must be alerted by the German leader.
“Joe? “Joe? pic.twitter.com/k0vw3yRHMC
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 27, 2022
“Joe? Will you just turn a bit?” Olaf Scholz has to say. Joe finally comes around.
Now the problem is that this isn’t just a one-time thing. Boris Johnson introduced South Africa’s president to Boris Johnson at last year’s G-7 meeting. Biden interrupted to say they needed to recognize the “president of South Africa,” despite Johnson just doing that. Johnson raised his arm several times in order to silence Joe.
Joe Biden insists that Boris Johnson already brought the South African president to a G7 summit.
Read the latest from the G7 here: https://t.co/LLt2KjJhOE pic.twitter.com/mjwKvbvDo6
— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 13, 2021
This is embarrassing. The problem with this type of event is that it’s not Biden’s people in charge of it, so his people aren’t able to manage Joe as much in this environment and the problems can be even more glaring. They even had to hand him notecards to help him understand when he must sit down and thank whom, making it seem like they are trying to hold his hand at each step.
Unfortunately, this failure to react quickly or correctly isn’t just in situations like this — we’ve seen it across the board when it comes to Biden’s reactions to a range of policy problems — from the debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan to his failure to acknowledge inflation for a long time or how his actions contributed to it.
It’s why his polling numbers are in the basement and why a massive number of Americans don’t think things are going well.
The new Real Clear Politics average has him at his lowest average polling ever now — at 39.1 percent approval, 56.4 disapproval.
Biden’s net approval rating – the gap between approve and disapprove – is at a new record low. pic.twitter.com/Gykvfiy7CH
— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) June 26, 2022
That’s a drop from two weeks ago when he was 39.3 percent approval and 55 percent disapproval.
I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen numbers like this in my life — with such massive amounts. Usually, if you have 60 percent thinking something, that’s a lot, with today’s divisions. But if 81 percent of Americans think things are going badly, that’s massive.
Only 19% Americans feel things are going well😬 pic.twitter.com/dQ3pVccaAR
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) June 26, 2022
That’s a stake right through any hopes Democrats have for the midterms.
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