The Washington Examiner recently reported that Joe Biden is on course to spend more time away from the White House than any of his recent predecessors.
Biden has spent more than a quarter of his first year in
office in Delaware, typically on weekends, and has continued that trend in year
two.
Biden has spent an estimated 188 full or partial days away
from the White House, with 130 spent at his Delaware properties, 52 at Camp
David, and six in Nantucket.
If that pace holds, Biden will spend roughly 553 days away
from the White House over his first term.
How does this record compare to previous US Presidents?
President Donald Trump spent 381 days away from the
White House while in office. Obama spent 328 days away during his tenure
while George W. Bush spent 1,020 days away from the White House for his two
terms. Bill Clinton was away for 345 days during his tenure.
These numbers are irrelevant perhaps because the burden of the
Presidency always prevails, irrespective of the physical location.
Vacations must never be scoffed at. All humans, irrespective
of the job they do, deserve a break from their daily rigmarole. A weekend
getaway or an occasional vacation for a week or two is needed to refresh the
mind and body.
For a President, spending time away from Washington often
provides valuable time to ponder over complex issues and contemplate innovative
solutions. A change of location often lends a fresh perspective. It also
provides an opportunity to interact freely with advisors in a relaxed
atmosphere without being suited and booted and away from the prying eyes of the
press.
The problem isn't only Biden is spending time away from
Washington.
The problem is also what he does in Washington.
When in the White House, Biden usually has few
events scheduled on his calendar.
These typically are meet and greets events with foreign
leaders. There are also scripted live addresses. Biden is frequently late for
live events, often by even an hour. When he does read his teleprompter he
sounds as if he is just discovering not just the content but words. He often
whispers, mumbles, and sounds incoherent.
Biden is seldom subjected to impromptu interactions with the
press. There have also been situations where the press rudely ejected from the
Oval Office as they are asking questions of Biden.
Upon taking office Biden pledged to be more transparent about
the activities within the White House. The White House publishes a daily log of
visitors. Can this log be trusted to be fully transparent? We know the answer
to that.
However, the NY Post reported that the same openness doesn’t
apply to Biden’s home in Delaware. No visitor logs are published.
This is particularly concerning owing to the Biden family’s
record of shady business dealings in China and Ukraine.
Equally concerning is Hunter Biden’s amateur artworks receiving astronomical
sums from anonymous foreign buyers. It is common knowledge that art
sales have been among the primary methods for money laundering.
The question remains are other shady deals being struck in
Delaware? Is national interest being compromised for Bidens’ gains? Who is
meeting with Biden or his handlers in Delaware? We will never know.
The lack of transparency of the occurrences when Biden is away
from the White House is more worrying than Biden merely being away.
We now focus on the output.
If the US was prospering and the world was at peace, nobody
would have grudged Biden even if he made Delaware his permanent resident.
But alas that is emphatically not the case.
Since Biden took office the citizen has been subjected to one
unprecedented crisis after another.
The struggle begins with economic woes, inflation
in the U.S. is at a 40-year high, resulting in soaring costs of
living. Just last month, unemployment rose to
5.950 million.
Those who are employed and can afford to survive the record
inflation are suffering due to the supply
chain crisis. Even infants have not been spared, due to a shortage of baby formula.
Biden has also failed to protect the mainland. The U.S. border
is unguarded leading to a considerable influx of illegal migrants and
large-scale trafficking of illicit narcotics such as
fentanyl.
The crime
wave is rampant with shootings,
and gang violence is becoming a frequent occurrence.
Beyond the U.S., Biden's disgracefully hasty withdrawal
from Afghanistan left
that country volatile. It doubtless emboldened Russia to intervene
militarily in Ukraine and China
to make aggressive overtures toward Taiwan.
Biden frequently makes reckless claims about which the White
House has to walk back later.
Overall Biden has made the US appear as an empire on the verge
of drastic decline. He has also made the U.S. to appears as an unreliable,
and uncaring ally.
An objective study of presidential history may reveal Joe
Biden to be among the worst, if not the worst US President in modern
times.
Sometimes incompetent people can appear competent if they
surround themselves with able people. As Victor Davis
Hanson observed, the only common factors to all Biden appointees are
ideological rigidity, nonchalance, and sheer incompetence.
The only area where Biden is on track to surpass all previous
presidents is spending time away from the White House.
Taking repeated vacations while performing poorly at the job
and the nation suffering also makes Biden appears like an insensitive Nero-like
figure.
Biden's easy schedule in the White House and his frequent
absence prove what is obvious to everybody i.e. Biden’s rapidly declining
cognitive abilities have left him incapable of functioning as President. Those
running the show prefer to have him behind closed doors or at far away
locations. The lesser Biden is seen, the safer they feel. This is exactly how
they ran Biden's Presidential 'campaign'.
The is nothing short of outrageous. The US isn’t a third-world
totalitarian regime where a compromised puppet is installed via rigged
elections while the deep state run the country by proxy.
In a Democracy, supreme power is owned by citizens, which they
lend to their leaders in Washington.
As owners of the power, citizens have a right to know who is
using their power to run their country and who is responsible for all the
decisions that have placed them in unprecedented peril.
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