Biden's Current Problem

Biden's handlers are clearly taking note of recent polls, and I assume other internal surverys are showing a perception that he's isolated and out of touch. So we see him getting out of the White House, in this photo with sleeves rolled up and jacketless (and I assume his greeters were informed of this dress code prior to his arrival), on the go.

The problem is that when he does this kind of thing, there's always the off key note -- in this case, the cheat sheets in his back pocket, in the Delaware dignified transfer op, the compulsive watch checking. And his eyes are always just slits.

He has Hillary's problem, the more people saw of her, the less there was to like. In his statements from the White House over the past week, he's been angry and callous, mostly refusing to answer questions. Apparently next week, he's going to start haranguing us about COVID again.

It isn't enough just to make him more visible when even the photo ops go wrong.

In early August, I was noticing that nothing was happening, maybe because everyone was on vacation. That changed in a hurry. Over the past few days, I've noticed we've been back to nothing happening again. I don't think I should get too comfortable with that.