From the right: Frantic Bids To Save Old Joe “There is something almost comical about the frantic effort to ensure the Democratic Party nominates Biden as soon as possible,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty of “plans to hold a virtual roll call” ahead of the Aug. 19 convention. After Biden’s poor debate performance and “flailing interviews with George Stephanopoulos and Lester Holt,” it’s “a sterling example of rewarding failure.
” They’d have us believe there’s a “sharper, more energetic, clearer-speaking Joe Biden hiding behind the curtain waiting to emerge,” when he’s plainly “losing his ability to communicate, and still looks old and doddering.” He “mumbles a lot, offers thought and sentence fragments, and apparently can’t read off the teleprompter as well as he used to.” Foreign desk: Biden’s ‘Incoherent’ Appeasement President Biden’s top goal — to “avoid inflaming” the Mideast — prompts Joshua Muravchik at The Wall Street Journal to ask: Is Biden “capable of thinking clearly” about US interests? After all, “authoritarians perceive such timidity as appeasement”; Israel is facing “perhaps its most perilous moment since its 1948 War of Independence,” particularly from Iran, and hanging it “out to dry” would be “disastrous for U.
S. interests.” So how does Biden “envision blocking Iran? With military action? Without inflaming the Middle East?” Can the prez “square his ‘ironclad’ commi.
