I used to travel all the time. I soon learned important rules for traveling safely and comfortably on an airplane. One was to avoid getting involved in a conversation with someone you don’t know. For that reason, I often totally ignored the person sitting next to me. On one trip I was flying from New York to Los Angeles, in Business Class. I paid zero attention to the person sitting next to me. Then, when I got off the plane, I quickly noticed a huge gathering of news crews, complete with microphones and cameras, waiting for someone. It turned out to be the person that was sitting next to me. When I finally turned around and looked at him, I instantly recognized Mario Cuomo, who at that time was the Governor of New York. I often wondered what would have happened if I had realized who he was during the flight. I suspect he was just as anxious to ignore me as I was to ignore him.

In retrospect I wish I had realized who he was, because even though I disagreed with him politically, he was obviously an entertaining person. I remember another time when I was at a Tony Bennet concert in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There was a seat open next to me. This man sat down quietly. When I looked at him, he held his finger up to his lips indicating: “shish.” He was Art Linkletter and he clearly wanted to be inconspicuous. I just smiled and honored his request. A few minutes later, he leaned over, said: “thank you” and left.

There have been other times when I met very famous people who behaved very differently. I was at a dinner associated with the Fred McGriff Invitational Golf Tournament. I had played in the tournament earlier during the day. I was standing at the bar, by myself, when this man came up to me with a huge smile and said: “Hi, I’m Lou Holtz, what’s your name?” We had a very pleasant conversation. Mr. Holtz was clearly more interested in learning more about me than answering questions about himself. This reminded me that there are two kinds of people in this world. Those that say: “Here I am,” and those who say: “There you are.” It was easy to understand why Lou Holtz was such an effective football coach.  He had an incredible talent for communicating with people.

Donald Trump clearly can connect with people. Sometimes that results in people hating him. Other times, people really like him. But he is a difficult person to ignore. Joe Biden has zero ability to connect with anyone. That was painfully obvious during the campaign but ignored because of COVID 19 restrictions and because the MSM willingly attacked Donald Trump daily. But now Joe Biden is President of the United States, and it is his job to connect with people. So far, there has been zero evidence he is remotely capable of doing that.

It is one thing to ignore someone sitting next to you on an airplane. It is something else to ignore a President of the United States. All we have seen so far is him sitting in the Oval Office with a large stack of Executive Orders, prepared by someone else, that he signs, usually without comment. When he does comment he frequently mumbles something incoherently. When he does give a speech it is very short, he reads it off a TelePrompter, sometimes poorly and then quickly shuffles away without taking any questions.

The MSM has already noticed. They seldom say: “President Joe Biden.” Instead, they refer to the Biden administration. They may praise the Biden administration, but they aren’t exactly praising Joe Biden. The only spokesperson for the administration is Jen Psaki and she is famous for dodging questions and “circling back.” The Vice President, Kamala Harris, is incompetent. She gave a couple of interviews on location TV Stations in Arizona and West Virginia, trying to promote the Biden administrations “American Rescue Plan” and she botched it big time. Joe Manchin, for one, is not amused. That would be the same Joe Manchin who is likely to be one of the key swing votes in the Senate. If Kamala Harris can’t handle this kind of interview, she is clearly incapable of communicating to a world stage.

This would be amusing, but unfortunately the world does not sit still and watch. They see this and they question who is in really in charge? The only thing certain, is that is not Joe Biden.

We should all be praying that the only damage done to this country by this tragic mistake is the damage Biden is doing to the economy. This is still a very dangerous world and having someone like Joe Biden acting as a place holder for the President of the United States does not exactly inspire confidence. We all need to pray for safe passage.

TDM