Letter: Biden unable to provide cogent response to press

The questions from the press range widely regarding inflation and corruption and legislation, issues which are intertwined so tightly they are thought by many to be one and the same, one ball of wax.

This Gordian knot of politics is beyond an ordinary man's ability to address, let alone unravel, but President Joe Biden, as Alexander the Great did with the original knot, cuts swiftly through the problem. Biden answers each question, whatever its subject, with the dull edge of his intellect, pummeling it with a series of slurred syllables, and he does this with such apparent sincerity and facility that the modern press, like the oracular priests of old, is lulled and awed into involuntary belief.

For example, a query has to do with Taiwan and what the United States might do if China invades it. Biden might launch into a history lesson regarding Saipan, and of how ferocious the battle there was during the Second World War.

The press processes his muddled answer and files out of the White House briefing room, gritting its teeth at how dastardly Republicans must be to upset such a lucid leader as Biden.

Patricia Gbur

Wood Dale