What a knucklehead! If MSNBC clown Jon Meacham believes anyone in their right mind would suggest Biden has “immense skills,” he is insane. Maybe he’s good at lying, but the man continually messing up war, and claiming that’s not the case is ridiculous!
On today’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski noted “Churchillian similarities” in Ukrainian President Zelensky’s visit to D.C., and Biden speechwriter Meacham agreed, and then passed the FDR/Churchill vibes on to Biden:
“I think President Biden has led with immense skill throughout this crisis. It’s reminiscent of the senior President Bush during the first Gulf War, and then back to the great World War II leadership. And I say that without, people can mock that, perhaps, but David [Ignatius] can check me on it. The way he’s managing these alliances, the way he is trying to enable America to project power without going too far and yet without falling short.”
Yeah, I doubt Churchill would agree… I can’t see him surrendering a secured country like Afghanistan over to terrorists.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: The impact on Republicans should be pretty powerful. I think, also, it’s a chance for Volodymyr Zelenskyy to really show Americans and tell Americans personally from his heart that Ukrainians are fighting and dying for the safety of the world, ultimately.
And Jon Meacham, your thoughts? Is this solidifying any Churchillian parallels here?
JON MEACHAM: Hmm. Absolutely. With a great sense of theater and a great commitment to the hard, hard, hard work. Unimaginable work for most of us, of defending your country from a superior power. Zelenskyy is very much acting in the Churchillian tradition. Churchill didn’t come to the United States during World War II until December 1941, after both Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States. It was at that point that FDR said to him, we’re all in the same boat now. And it was a boat that, like Zelenskyy, Churchill had been in, largely alone, since the spring of 1940.
And we had been fighting this battle that we’re fighting again. I think this is the thing to think about today, and tomorrow, as people watch these events. This is one of our oldest and most difficult battles in the United States. It’s between engagement in the world, and isolationism. The false sense that because of our, the gift of geography of the United States of America, that somehow we are, to paraphrase Churchill, not involved in the agonies and the triumphs of the Old World. But we are.
And I think President Biden has led with immense skill throughout this crisis. It’s reminiscent of the senior President Bush during the first Gulf War, and then back to the great World War II leadership.
And I say that without, people can mock that, perhaps, but David can check me on it. The way he’s managing these alliances, the way he is trying to enable America to project power without going too far and yet without falling short. And that’s, in many ways, of course, the great test of diplomacy. And I think that will bring all of this top of mind in the next 24 hours.