Just an FYI …
While it’s a typically mixed bag, I’m pretty happy with his performance to date.
But I’ll quote Obama:
If I only ever listened to Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me either.
And there you have it.
Joe Biden??
Hmm.
He was walking. What did you expect, equestrian? 
Wait… what?
I get the hating of Democrats and their progressive policies, but WTF is this nonsense?
Indeed. Controlling the message is critical, and virtually impossible with the tribe that gets all their info from a single biased source.
ETA: As evidenced in this very thread.
Specific example?
I agree with that. And I agree that Biden could be doing a little better in his response to the problem (see Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and LBJ for better examples of presidents dealing with the problem proactively). But he isn’t the source of the problem, and isn’t the one inflaming it.
As a person he’s reasonably fit, I just gotta say. They said he tripped over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy today but didn’t seem at all injured. Whew!
HoneyBadgerDC can’t articulate anything specific explaining his dislike for Biden, but is liking Marrianne Williamson after listening to her for a mere 5 minutes.
A dumb neighbor of mine has a FUCK BIDEN flag hanging in his garage, by the door. If the garage door is open, the flag is flapping there. Someone made that flag. So clearly, someone is sewing hate. Some flag maker, anyway. Unless there’s no hate in the sentiment, which is ridiculous. Or, I suppose, if the hate flag didn’t require sewing for some reason.
But I’ll bet Biden didn’t make that flag. So I would add my voice to those asking for an example of Biden sewing hate. Or one of Biden sowing hate, whichever.
Biden has returned the nation to a degree of sanity.
He passed a decent gun control bill.
A solid President, but not- so far- a Great one. But we needed a Joe Biden.
I dunno who was worse- Reagan or trump. trump was a gibbering loony who allowed the racists out of their cage, but Reagan did more actual harm.
GWBush was the most incompetent. His Father was okay.
Carter was a perfect example of the Peter Principle- a great Governor, and a great human being who was promoted beyond his level of competence.
ISWYDT.
That’s just noise. Do you have anything specific?
What, specifically, do you think Biden has said or done that was divisive?
What, specifically, do you think Biden has done that was immoral?
There’s no sense in even trying to discuss this with you if we can’t get clear answers to those questions.
I suspect that the office of POTUS is, and has been for some decades now, beyond anyone’s level of competence.
However, somebody’s got to do the job (or some equivalence thereof); and the cats sure ain’t gonna do it.
To some extent you are right. We combine head of State with the Executive office, which was a mistake. The Brits have the Royals to do all the ribbon cutting, funeral attending stuff. Other nations have a figurehead President, with the real work done by the PM.
I’m sorry, but I think Trump wins that category too.
I wasn’t around then, but I think of Nixon as the most accomplished president in recent history. Despite resigning in disgrace, Nixon is my #3 pick for best president at his job (by which I mean most efficient), after Polk (#1) and FDR (#2 - he accomplished a lot but also took more time).
Biden is waaaay down my list. ETA: He is exceeding my expectations for him, however - as many noted in this thread.
~Max
I think Biden has been a fantastic president, exceeding my expectations – which were already high.
One of the hardest things to do in politics is get credit for doing huge, very difficult things that you prevented from happening. Things that, had they come to fruition, would have been far more catastrophic for our country and the world. Both Biden and Obama deserve enormous credit for achieving such accomplishments. They are rarely recognized for them.
Obama avoided a global economic crisis brought on by banks running amok, selling junk loans on the global market as Triple-A rated securities and over-leveraging themselves. We were so close to a global depression. I frankly didn’t think Obama would be able to head it off. But he did.
Similarly, Biden quickly stopped quite a number of potentially catastrophic happenings from occurring: A pandemic from spiraling even further out of control; an economy from falling over a cliff due to an uncontrolled pandemic; a dissolution or serious weakening of NATO; further unraveling of our elections, our justice institutions and congressional representation gone insane. Any one of those challenges would have been extreme to cope with for most politicians. Biden handled them all, simultaneously, made it look easy and most of it in his first 2 years of office. This was also done in the face of unparalleled opposition by Republicans in Congress.
I don’t hold Biden responsible for his inability to get his appointments through. That’s on the voters, who gave him a somewhat shittier congress in January 2023. Biden did a lot in his first 2 years when he had Democrats in both the House and the Senate (Manchin and Sinema notwithstanding). There’s only so much Biden can do now with a divided Congress, especially when the lower chamber is controlled by crazy people who are willing to do anything to destroy the current government, along with an entire mainstream political party and several propaganda news channels who largely support them.
Biden chose excellent people to help do the Herculean tasks of setting government back on course. Trump dedicated his presidency to tearing it apart, and as anyone knows, tearing something apart is far easier than accomplishing hard tasks. (The old saw: “How do you tear down a barn? Put a hole in the roof.”) As an aside, I weep to think how John Kerry must have felt after all the work he put in to achieve the Iran nuclear deal, only to watch Trump destroy it with the stroke of a pen. The relative merits of the deal can be debated, but it was such a massive accomplishment in its own right. Poof.
Departments of government badly hollowed out by Trump: State, Department of Energy, Department of Education, DOD, DOJ (especially the FBI), CIA, DOT, EPA, Department of the Interior (remember Ryan Zinke?)… the list goes on. The collective institutional memories of experienced, non-partisan government officials were wiped out by Trump in a deliberate, studied way. It was Trump’s only true north: Destroy everything. That institutional memory takes decades to accumulate. Biden gets to begin rebuilding it. Lucky fellow!
Re communicating his accomplishments, again, I don’t fault Biden for this. Look at what the media covers – or more importantly, doesn’t. I see Biden on the tee vee nearly every day, speaking, listing his accomplishments, lifting up others who are deserving of it and championing causes for minorities, the environment, working toward bipartisanship as much as possible, doing what he can to lower the temperature of the national dialogue, passing what gun legislation he can. The news media I choose cover these events. It’s not Biden’s fault if others don’t.
No one who watches Biden regularly could assert with a straight face that he’s incoherent or suffering from some affliction. That’s pure propaganda. He’s old, but he’s pretty spry and sharp. His experience in the job is unmatched.
I agree with @psychobunny. Biden is really good at this. I don’t agree with all his policies. But I understand the massive constraints under which he’s getting a lot of good things done.
(Aspenglow, political junkie since long before Biden was pilloried for plagiarism in 1988. Seems so quaint now.)
I can’t say it anywhere near as well as @Aspenglow just did.
Nixon was an arrogant prick who was incredibly paranoid and made a terrible choice for a vice-president, but he did have some major accomplishments during his 5+ years as President. Among other things, he opened up diplomatic relations with China, got us out of Vietnam, and established the EPA. I was an ecstatic (and drunk) college student when he resigned, but I will certainly give him his due.
Yeah, ditto for me.