Column By Mike Bibb
Personally, I can’t imagine President Joe has gone shopping for at least the past four years.
Excluding, a quick run to a local ice cream store.
As a result, he has no idea what things cost, used to cost, or how much they’ve gone up.
As President, he doesn’t have to worry about such mundane matters. His staff takes care of those incidental chores.
Besides, he’s a “Scranton kid” who’s made it to the Big Time. Took 50 years to do it, and a few changes in political ideologies and hundreds of truth benders along the way, but now, he sits on top of the world.
No time to mess with shopping lists – even if he could remember to write one.
Recently, in a CNN interview with Erin Burnett, on May 5, 2024, Joe discussed economic issues and repeatedly proclaimed the magnificent performance his administration was doing in bringing us back from the brink of Trump’s catastrophe.
When confronted by the reality costs of nearly everything had significantly increased during his term in office, Joe admitted that might be so, but at least people had more money to spend.
There seemed to be a several-second pause in the interview as Burnett appeared puzzled by his explanation. As, I’m sure, most of the viewing audience was equally mystified.
Let me see – Joe knows groceries, fuel, interest rates, rent, insurance, Big Macs, and just about everything from A to Z has gone up, but that isn’t too bad because everyone now has pocket-fulls of cash and credit cards to max out.
How could it possibly get any better? More importantly, how could his disconnect get any worse?
Well, in Joe’s mind, I guess it doesn’t. He’s been isolated from the real world for so long, and immunized to the difficulties most of us experience daily, that he has no idea what goes on outside the Washington Beltway.
Dependent upon the deceptive advice of his staff, enhanced by an enamored press, Joe can ride around in the Beast (his specially equipped Cadillac limousine), gaze at service station’s gas prices rising several nickels a week, stop for a $5.50 double-dip chocolate chip cone, a treat for the driver, and a few snacks for the Secret Service guys, and still spend less than a hundred bucks.
Then, go on TV that evening and boast that “Bidenomics” is working better than expected.
However, when news editors and commentators of the liberal media begin to have doubts about Joe’s competency, as reflected by numerous opinion polls, that’s a pretty good indication things are beginning to unravel in the Oval Office.
Political hype and scripted theatrics can only fool the folks for so long. Especially, when what they see and hear doesn’t sync with what Joe’s been telling them.
The alibi Joe is “an elderly man with a poor memory” may be a clever excuse in some kind of court proceeding, but it’s a poor substitute in trying to persuade the voting public into believing they haven’t been intentionally deceived all these years.
After living through the Biden Administration, I would imagine any person with a functioning brain can easily distinguish the differences between what Joe heartily tells us he’s done, as opposed to what he’s done.
If you think Joe’s a cognitive mess now, give him four more years – and, we’ll all be in the same boat!
