Here’s How Low the Bar Just Got Dropped for Joe Biden – Opinion

I’ve lost count of how often (and how far) the bar has been lowered for the current Oval Office occupant, nor do I have the hours it would take to list all the various ways it’s been done over the last 11 months.

One way that does come to mind, though, is how at the beginning we were treated to endless “reports” and various commentaries from The Usual Suspects on how President Biden was supposedly going to be “restoring” a “refreshing” respect between the White House and the establishment press corps after four years of the highly contentious relationship between then-President Trump and members of the mainstream media.

After Biden had been sworn in, it quickly became apparent that his promises to respect the freedoms of the press were empty. Journalists initially showed genuine frustration. But though there are still some grumblings, it’s gotten to the point where reporters have seemingly just given up, and are now simply characterizing days where Biden doesn’t address them as “press-free” days. Some news outlets have even started describing what Biden is doing as merely part of a “low-key media strategy.”

But most recently, we’ve stumbled upon what may be the lowest bar drop on behalf of the Biden administration to date. Former Obama-Biden team member Steve Rattner, an economic analyst on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program who in 2009 was the head of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, weighed in yesterday, suggesting that though Biden’s numbers have tanked here at home, at least his “leadership” has restored “foreign sentiment towards the US”:

.@JoeBiden’s poll numbers may have dipped domestically, but happily, foreign sentiment towards the US has rebounded sharply under his leadership. cc: @MorningConsult pic.twitter.com/1dwDW2nFdj

— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) December 7, 2021

Seriously? Like, is there any more of an irrelevant factoid about a president than how he’s done in terms of allegedly getting other countries to view us more favorably? If there is, I can’t think of it.

Side note: Were Afghans interviewed for the poll? I suspect they’d take a far different view of the United States right about now than the other countries seemingly have.

Joe Biden’s prominent supporters have been reduced to making meaningless stats about how other countries view us. I mean it’s like they’re saying, “Hey, the people Biden is supposed to be representing can’t stand him, but at least people in foreign countries think he’s the bee’s knees.”

Yawn. You can’t forget when those same countries are afraid of us and begin to respect our power. This is something that happens when Republicans are president. With any luck at all, we’ll see exactly that in 2024. Until then…

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