Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror with NATO and European leaders, visit Poland and fumble enough rhetorically to conceivably make the situation worse.
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” and yes, I want him gone, you likely want him gone, most of us want him gone, but this was a president sounding as if we were looking to rule Russia, not just defeat its efforts in Ukraine. He said we would respond in kind if Russia were to use weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, a frightening elevation of that kind of evil warfare. In talking to U.S. troops in Poland, he indicated they would soon be going to Ukraine, meaning it would be our war.
That was hardly the end of it, and maybe you wonder if these muddled moments prompted a psychotherapist to say he “is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president.” No. Those remarks were aimed at Donald Trump when he was first taking over the presidency.
