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Biden finally gave credit to Trump. Whatever you may think about the COVID vaccines this was quite the admission.
For President Biden, it must have stung a bit. He was elected in large part because he wasn’t former President Donald Trump, especially regarding the pandemic. Now Biden had to invoke him in a speech exhorting Americans to vaccinate and boost, precisely because the pandemic is very much still with us.
“Let me be clear: Thanks to the prior administration and our scientific community, America is one of the first countries to get the vaccine,” Biden said, before taking credit for the initial rollout of the shots.
Then he mentioned Trump by name. “I got my booster shot as soon as they were available,” he said. “And just the other day, former President Trump announced he had gotten his booster shot. It may be one of the few things he and I agree on.”
Sometime after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the American public stopped grading Biden on the “not Trump” curve. As the omicron variant spreads rapidly at the same time families are traveling and gathering for the holiday season, the media is starting to follow suit.
Biden faced tough questions after his speech. “Is it a failure that you don’t have an adequate amount of tests for everyone to be able to get one if they need one right now?” one reporter asked. “Mr. President, what’s your message to Americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing?”
The president did not appreciate these queries. “Come on,” Biden shot back. “What took so long?” He said no one could have predicted the speed with which omicron would transmit, even though his own government seemed pretty alarmed about it when it banned travel from South Africa a few weeks ago.
“If I had told you four weeks ago that this would spread by — a day-to-day basis it would spread by 50, 100 percent, 200 percent, 500 percent, I think you would have looked at me and say, ‘Biden, what are you drinking?’” he told reporters.
This has become a pattern with Biden. When things go badly, whether it is along the border in Texas or at an airport in Kabul, he insists that no one could have anticipated or avoided the problems being associated with his policies. This is despite ample evidence of such predictions of dire consequences in real-time.
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For President Biden, it must have stung a bit. He was elected in large part because he wasn’t former President Donald Trump, especially regarding the pandemic. Now Biden had to invoke him in a speech exhorting Americans to vaccinate and boost, precisely because the pandemic is very much still with us.
“Let me be clear: Thanks to the prior administration and our scientific community, America is one of the first countries to get the vaccine,” Biden said, before taking credit for the initial rollout of the shots.
Then he mentioned Trump by name. “I got my booster shot as soon as they were available,” he said. “And just the other day, former President Trump announced he had gotten his booster shot. It may be one of the few things he and I agree on.”
Sometime after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the American public stopped grading Biden on the “not Trump” curve. As the omicron variant spreads rapidly at the same time families are traveling and gathering for the holiday season, the media is starting to follow suit.
Biden faced tough questions after his speech. “Is it a failure that you don’t have an adequate amount of tests for everyone to be able to get one if they need one right now?” one reporter asked. “Mr. President, what’s your message to Americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing?”
The president did not appreciate these queries. “Come on,” Biden shot back. “What took so long?” He said no one could have predicted the speed with which omicron would transmit, even though his own government seemed pretty alarmed about it when it banned travel from South Africa a few weeks ago.
“If I had told you four weeks ago that this would spread by — a day-to-day basis it would spread by 50, 100 percent, 200 percent, 500 percent, I think you would have looked at me and say, ‘Biden, what are you drinking?’” he told reporters.
This has become a pattern with Biden. When things go badly, whether it is along the border in Texas or at an airport in Kabul, he insists that no one could have anticipated or avoided the problems being associated with his policies. This is despite ample evidence of such predictions of dire consequences in real-time.
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