Biden's first press conference was a 'whole lot worse' than most media will tell you

last night we talked again about how u.s president joe biden had not given a single press conference since his inauguration in january more than 60 days without facing the media properly and we discussed his problems with a surge of would-be migrants on the mexican border as we previewed his first white house press conference which was imminent well it happened last night and it was a whole lot worse than most of the media will ever tell you first up border protection and instead of admitting that abandoning donald trump's border wall and taking a softer stand on immigration was encouraging a rush on the borders president biden proffered another reason people are coming because i'm the nice guy that's the reason why it's happening that i'm a decent man or whoever's phrased that you know that's why they're coming because no biden's a good guy wow now not only is that very lame it also doesn't seem to explain the increase in potential immigrants and rush on the borders that the trump administration was trying to deal with does anybody suggest that there was a 31 increase under trump because he was a nice guy and he was doing good things at the border yeah it's kind of confused isn't it and inconsistent on a crucial national policy issue then again perhaps it's not surprising when you consider how long the president spent in the senate we should go back to a position in the filibuster that existed just when i came to united states senate 120 years ago 120 years ago he's not that old now since the press conference pictures have emerged of cheat notes the president had on hand some were noting key issues and facts fair enough and another one with photos of the journalists and their names with numbers pinned alongside them presumably in order in the order in which that they were going to ask their questions but this didn't seem to help joe biden much i had a card on this i was going to give you the statistics but you probably know them that it used to be that uh that what this ladies and gentlemen is the leader of the free world i hope you feel secure i think the leader of the free world needs to be robust and sharp and this is alarming we want to work together or they're decide that the way in which they want to proceed is to uh is to uh just uh um now former president donald trump was watching this and he noticed the sharp difference between this unsteady but polite episode and the constant sparring he endured and sometimes enjoyed with journalists well they were strange questions and they were asked in a very uh interesting way it was like softballs like you're throwing softballs up and it's just a different world it's nobody's seen anything like it you know it you know it better than anybody you cover it so well and it's uh it's very sad to watch actually they're they're feeding them questions they're easy questions i noticed peter ducey didn't get to ask a question today and there could be no difficult questions uh and they're ready to rip the microphone away if somebody did get a little bit testy and you know he just looked the whole thing is ridiculous you know it and so do i but biden incredibly suggests he might be a candidate again in 2024 my predecessor oh god i miss him um no an answer is yes my plan is to run for re-election surely he jests a grateful nation holds its breath a grateful world perhaps the poor bloke knows that if he admits this early that he won't run again he'll be a lame duck from the start so we get this fast if you do run will vice president harris be on your ticket i would fully expect that to be the case she's doing a great job she's a great partner she's a great partner and do you believe you'll be running against former president trump oh come on i don't even think about i don't i have no idea you can say that again now i don't want to be too unkind here i love elderly people i hope to be one myself someday but this is the most important man in the world and at 78 he does not appear to be up to the task certainly when it comes to this sort of public advocacy so the best way to get something done if you if it holds near and dear to you that you like to be able to anyway i'm we're going to get a lot done this is no joke and just because you're glad trump is gone doesn't mean you have to cheer for biden these are dangerous times with a pandemic still ongoing china belligerent and aggressive economic uncertainty around the world we need strong leadership from the u.s and surely there is nobody in the u.s australia or any other liberal democracy who could draw any comfort from that sort of performance except perhaps for the vice president kamala harris i guess

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Published: Fri Mar 26 2021