Comforter-in-Chief? Not Really
He repeatedly checked his watch at the dignified transfer ceremony.
by Debra J. Saunders
September 5, 2021, 12:01 AM
Before he became president, stories about now-President Joe Biden phoning friends and even strangers to offer comfort after deaths in their family were legendary.
Having endured the awful deaths of a wife and baby daughter in 1972 and elder son Beau in 2015, Biden was, in news-speak, “shaped by grief.” Politico‘s Michael Kruse called grief Biden’s “superpower.”
The quick-with-a-hug Biden entered office as a seemingly natural “comforter-in-chief.”
Something has changed. Biden’s halo of compassion lost some sheen August 29 at Dover Air Force Base when he talked privately to the families of 13 fallen service members who died in Kabul.
During the dignified transfer ceremony, Biden was caught on camera repeatedly checking his watch.
Later, after Biden approached grieving family members to offer his condolences, many said that his remarks lacked authenticity.
“I was able to stand about 15 seconds of his fake, scripted apology and I had to walk away,” Cheyenne McCollum, whose brother Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum died in the terrorist attack, told Fox and Friends.
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