David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

The Ukrainians elected a comedian and now the whole world admires his statesmanship. Americans elected a "Statesman" and the whole world is laughing t him.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Funny how that worked. I hope i***t Joe comes home soon before he starts WWIII. What an embarrassment.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

About a quarter if the world is impressed by Zelensky...

The same quarter that thinks the West is heroic...

The second statement is correct....

Gatsby

It is interesting, how Democrats, and the Manure Spreader Media, have forgotten all about the 25th Amendment.

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

David, If you are writing about President Biden, you are dead wrong. Biden's leadership in both the c***d and Ukraine crisis has been amazing. I don't know if you are aware that the c***d problem may be over. We may yet suffer another new wave of a c***d variant, but for now, it is going down. The Ukrainian crisis is going better than expected. The Russians are in retreat, NATO has never been more united, Ukraine is receiving arms from NATO, with more to come, and up to this point, Russia is not using gas, biological, or tactical nukes.
The crazies from the GOP keep on blaming the President for inflation. Inflation is a world wide problem. Biden is doing all he can to fight inflation, but has no authority in any other country.
You really need to read a decent newspaper like the New York Time, or the Washington Post. As we used to say in New York about Fox News and other right wing papers, FAWGETABOUTIT!

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

The Russians are retreating the wrong way😂😂😂

Kevyn

If you look at poking numbers internationally you will find that Biden is well respected. His predecessor on the other hand was the butt of jokes.

David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

How many wars were started while Trump was President? How many Mideast peace treaties were signed while Trump was President? How much territory did Putin take while Trump was President? How many i******s crossed our border while Trump was President, compared to previous Presidents? And please tell me, what other Presidents presided over energy independence for us, along with reasonable energy prices? And last but not least, How many of Trumps policies did Biden reverse as quickly as possible? No one needs Fox News to tell us these things because those of us who live in the real world totally understand them.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

Sure would like to hear a quote from someone who has great respect for Biden, other than die hard "Progressives." As for jokes about Trump. shucks, he even jokes about himself, but he sure did accomplish great things. OH, I almost forgot. Trump was nominated for several Nobell Peace prizes.

David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

It is probably safe to say that even the countries who h**e us are impressed with the Ukranian President. You might try asking Putin.

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

It depends on which group you ask. Probably many in your home (China at the moment?) suffer severe penalties for criticizing the govt. Not the case in the US. I wonder if you teach this fact? Same thing in Canada right?

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

There you go, hope you don't get a head ache crying over reality. You don't have a grasp on it and you should.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Here's a "quote", albeit a long one...

By Randy Weir

Why do democrats still support Biden? Because they aren’t brainwashed by alt-right propaganda. If you ignore the f**e news and the h**e, Biden is actually far exceeding the greatest expectations anyone had. Let’s look at the facts.

In 2020, even right-leaning economists predicted the country would recover from the p******c faster under Biden than under Trump. But the most optimistic projections were that unemployment would stay over 5% until 2023. Under Biden, it dropped below 4% in 2021.

But let’s look at the background of that growth. Under Biden we saw the p******c continue to worsen, ending 2021 with the most daily new c****av***s cases since the p******c began. Any reasonable person would have expected the economy to worsen as the p******c worsened. After all, didn’t Trump blame his abysmal numbers on the p******c?

But despite the p******c worsening, Biden’s policies led to 85% of businesses and 95% of schools that closed in 2020 reopening in 2021. We also saw a record number of new business startups. Because of that, the economy created or recovered more than six million jobs, and we closed out 2021 with about 3 million more people in the workforce than at the end of 2019. The demand for workers drove the median wage up 10% as wage growth outpaced inflation by the largest margin since Clinton was in office. Consumer spending rose. Corporate profits rose. The Dow hit a record high seventy different days—which is a record itself, and we posted the best GDP growth in forty years. And again, we saw this record-breaking economic recovery despite a worsening global p******c! Oh, and he cut the deficit by a trillion dollars in 2021, and his 2022 budget calls for another trillion dollar decrease.

That’s just the economy though. At the beginning of 2021, avowed obstructionist Mitch McConnell said, “One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration.” So how did that work out? About six weeks after his inauguration, Biden passed his stimulus with bipartisan support. The Senate unanimously v**ed to make Juneteenth a national holiday, and almost unanimously passed a bill to toughen penalties for h**e crimes against Asian-Americans, which had sharply increased following Trump’s “China v***s” rhetoric. The Senate agreed on a deal to prevent government shutdowns. Biden passed his historic infrastructure bill with bipartisan support. And his first Supreme Court nominee is expected to be confirmed within days.

Biden gets criticism for Afghanistan, but look at what he inherited. Trump undermined the legitimate Afghan government by holding private talks with the Taliban to determine the future of Afghanistan after the American withdrawal. Trump promised and secured the release of 5,000 Taliban terrorists over the objections of the Afghan government, including more than 150 that were on death row, and 44 who were involved in high profile attacks against US forces, including the deadliest attack of the entire occupation. Trump then committed to a withdrawal date about 100 days after he knew he’d be out of office, presumably hoping Biden’s first 100 days would be consumed by the withdrawal. Then days after losing the 2020 e******n, Trump announced that before he left office he would draw our troop presence in Afghanistan to its lowest since the conflict began. This was met with so much opposition that Congress—including the Republican-controlled Senate—passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which in part barred the Pentagon from removing any troops from Afghanistan before Biden’s inauguration. Trump vetoed the bill, Congress easily overrode that veto, then five days before leaving office, Trump violated the Act by illegally withdrawing the troops anyway. Biden was able to successfully delay the withdrawal by four months, and despite one terrorist attack that originated from outside the country, 2021 saw the third fewest American casualties of any year in the conflict, surpassed only by 2020 (when all operations essentially ended in February because of the p******c) and 2001 (when we were only there for three months). How could any reasonable person have expected our withdrawal to go this well following Trump’s deliberate sabotage of our operations there?

Another thing Biden gets criticized for is high gas prices. But look at the background on that. In April 2020, at the beginning of the p******c lockdowns, with gas prices at their lowest of his presidency (but still higher than the lowest under Obama), Trump declared that low gas prices were bad for America and promised to work to increase them. He threatened to withhold the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia if OPEC—the world’s largest oil producer—didn’t agree to to slash production by 25% for two years to drive up prices. The resulting global oil shortage drove America’s average gas price up by 52% over the next year, landing them on par with prices before the p******c, despite the continuing lockdowns. One might expect that once the country started to reopen under Biden that prices would rise even faster. But instead, over the next ten months, prices only increased by 22%—rising about half as fast as before Biden’s stimulus went into effect. And despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine causing prices to briefly rise again, the average price per gallon still peaked below the all-time record set in 2008.

In short, by virtue of following the worst President in modern history, Biden inherited a cluster of mistakes and messes like no President has ever had to manage before. And despite a divided Senate and his predecessor’s intentional sabotage, Biden oversaw the fastest economic recovery in history, passed landmark legislation, and ended America’s longest war while cutting Trump’s record deficit in half. And he did it all during the same p******c the former guy blamed for his own failures.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/?msclkid=650a0630ad1311ec8de99f3053321df4

Excerpt: "Indeed, some of history’s most vilified figures have been nominated for the prize. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was nominated twice: in 1945 for his effort to end World War II and again in 1948 by a professor from the Czech Republic. And f*****t Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was nominated in 1935 by two law professors, one from Germany and the other from France. (Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 — the nomination was later withdrawn — by “an anti-f*****t member of the Swedish parliament who never intended his submission to be taken seriously,” according to Nobel archives.)"

Also: "Trump has been nominated, but that’s not the “big thing” he makes it out to be. There are 318 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 — 211 are individuals and 107 organizations."

BTW, Trump never won a Nobel Peace Prize...but, read the entire link/article.