Joe Biden may be down, which is not surprising considering what he has accomplished in a little over a year. He badly botched the nation’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Of course, he was distracted by Omnicom from which almost as many Americans died of COVID in 2021 as had died in 2020. He also managed to inflate the economy to a level not seen in almost 40 years, and he even further divided an already divided country.
I could go on, but it will suffice to say that his approval rating, which in the 30’s, has not gotten much of a boost from his uninspiring state of the union address or his reaction to events in the Ukraine.
Had his predecessor had been anyone other than Donald Trump, Biden’s approval rating would be somewhere in the teens.
It may also be true that if Joe Biden weren’t president, Dr.Jill Biden would have him spending most of his days in some sort of senior day care program. But don’t count Joe out. He is the president, and he truly believes that history will remember him as the G.O.A.T. (the greatest president of all time).
According to his son, Hunter, the best measure of a president is the number of Nobel prizes he’s won. Only four American presidents—the first Roosevelt; Wilson; Carter; and Obama—have earned a Nobel, and none of them have earned more than one. Hunter believes that his dad has an excellent shot at two Nobel prizes and explains: “The situation in Ukraine will be resolved at some point and my dad will play an integral part in bringing the war to an end. That’s one Nobel.”
Hunter goes on: “But there’s much more. Until now, economists generally believed that inflation had something to do with government spending. My Dad knows that’s not the case and the next couple of years will prove that he’s right. He will totally upend the science of economics. That’s a second Nobel.”
In other words, it sounds as if two Nobel prizes are almost in the bag for Joe, and that arguably would make him the G.O.A.T.
