Biden Stands By Kabul Evacuation, Laughs When Confronted With Poll Suggesting Majority No Longer See Him As “Competent Or Effective” BY TYLER DURDEN for Zero Hedge
There was a remarkable moment in Biden’s press conference on Sunday afternoon. Asked by a CBS journalist Ed O’Keefe – who had to obsequiously preface his question by saying “I am sorry, I am just the messenger” – what Biden thinks about the first full post-Kabul poll which found that a “majority of Americans no longer consider Biden competent, focused or effective” the president laughed, denied seeing the poll and cited various statistics about the total number of dead and wounded in Afghanistan, read from a notecard, oblivious of the fact that the question did not refer to the overall strategy of withdrawal from Afghanistan which a majority of Americans approve, but his bunged retreat which has left thousands of Americans in harms way, not to mention leaving Afghanistan a smoldering mess.
“I haven’t seen that poll,” @edokeefe asks President Biden to respond to a new CBS News poll that suggests Americans mostly disapprove of his handling of Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/5O6bk0qm4b
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 22, 2021
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Biden’s response: “I think that history is gonna record this was the logical, rational and right decision to make.”
History maybe, but Americans certainly not: as CBS prefaced its own poll, “Most Americans have wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan for a while, and most still do. But not like this.”
As a result of the botched withdrawal, the poll found a sharp hit on qualities the public saw a positive like competence, focus, and effectiveness — now those are each at least slightly net negative.
Obviously, the catalyst for Biden’s plunge in the polls was his handling the withdrawal, where mainly Democrats backing him here and a substantial drop since July.
