{"id":2285837,"date":"2024-06-29T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-aide-tries-gaslighting-america-says-biden-was-simply-over-prepared-for-debate-report\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:29:15","slug":"wh-aide-tries-gaslighting-america-says-biden-was-simply-over-prepared-for-debate-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-aide-tries-gaslighting-america-says-biden-was-simply-over-prepared-for-debate-report\/","title":{"rendered":"WH Aide Tries Gaslighting America, Says Biden Was Simply \u2018Over-Prepared\u2019 for Debate: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwh-aide-tries-gaslighting-america-says-biden-was-simply-over-prepared-for-debate-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2285837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2062 article discusses the aftermath of a particularly\u200c challenging debate for\u2062 President Joe Biden, \u200dhighlighting the \u2063criticism\u2062 he received for his performance. Critics, including former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-big-here-we-go-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings-biden-team-unaware-of-directive\/\" title=\"BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive\">administration officials<\/a> and campaign veterans, labeled \u2064the\u200d debate a disaster and a catastrophe, with Biden\u2019s capabilities being questioned. Some attributed his lackluster performance to over-preparation, suggesting he focused too\u2063 much on minutiae rather than presenting a vigorous \u200cand energetic demeanor. The\u2062 debate setup,\u200c controlled by Biden&#8217;s team, was intended to be\u2062 advantageous,\u2063 yet it seemingly \u200bbackfired. The \u200cpiece \u200cconcludes with\u200b a \u200bcritique of Biden&#8217;s\u200c fitness for the presidency, arguing that his debate performance exposes broader concerns about\u200b his mental and \u200cphysical readiness for the job. The \u2064article also includes a call for donations to support the publishing platform, highlighting its\u2062 fight against Big Tech and elites.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>  &nbsp;By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>  &nbsp;June 29, 2024 at 7:57am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the one thing that any mentor will tell you never to say in a job interview when asked what your biggest flaw is:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just too much of a perfectionist.&rdquo; Or: &ldquo;I just work too hard.&rdquo; Or: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just too committed to getting the job done.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&rsquo;re the most competent candidate possible, this raises a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/any-sane-person-would-say-hell-no-greg-gutfeld-says-white-house-cant-be-trusted-to-identify-misinformation\/\" title=\"\u2018Any Sane Person Would Say Hell No\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Says White House Can\u2019t Be Trusted To Identify \u2018Misinformation\u2019\">huge red flag<\/a>. In case you missed all of the political news cycle beginning Thursday night at around 9 p.m. ET, virtually <em>nobody<\/em> is willing to vouch for President Joe Biden being the best candidate for the job he has. Or even a candidate for passing a first-grade reading exam.<\/p>\n<p>But don&rsquo;t blame the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-cnns-van-jones-drops-biden-wants-race-debate-failure-didnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president&rsquo;s obvious senility<\/a>, one anonymous staffer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/28\/biden-trump-debate-defcon1-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>. He just worked too darn hard at preparing for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s accurate to properly sum up how disastrous Thursday night was for the Biden campaign, but let&rsquo;s put it this way: Donald Trump&rsquo;s campaign has already put out a 90-second ad that&rsquo;s literally nothing but Biden talking during the debate. Nothing from his challenger, just the sitting president&rsquo;s own words. Well,&nbsp;<em>kinda<\/em> words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump just released a 95 second ad. And it&rsquo;s brutal. He didn&rsquo;t even need to say anything. All he did was let Biden talk.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KBKBK6UYQ7\">pic.twitter.com\/KBKBK6UYQ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\/status\/1806563825342152820?\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Axios, like pretty much every mainstream media outlet, had an article with a flood of apoplectic and apocalyptic quotes from Democrat apparatchiks, both named and unnamed, who assumedly had to see this coming.<\/p>\n<p>One former Biden administration official: &ldquo;disaster.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Did the debate kill Biden&rsquo;s chances in the 2024 election?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A person described as &ldquo;an influential Democratic campaign veteran&rdquo; by Axios: &ldquo;catastrophe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;DEFCON 1 moment,&rdquo; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-reportedly-worried-biden-vs-trump-ii-anxiety-election-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Plouffe<\/a>, former President Barack Obama&rsquo;s campaign manager, during a segment on MSNBC. &ldquo;The &ldquo;concern level is quite high.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Amid a sea of panic, though, Axios was able to find a &ldquo;person in Biden&rsquo;s orbit&rdquo; who actually gave the answer about flaws that any job coach will tell you to never give.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He was over-prepared and relying on minutiae when all that mattered was vigor and energy,&rdquo; the unnamed individual said.<\/p>\n<p>The source added: &ldquo;They prepared him for the wrong debate. He was over-prepared when what he needed was rest. It&rsquo;s confounding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the poor guy overworked himself with debate prep and no public appearances. He was just too prepped. That&rsquo;s why he said &ldquo;we finally beat Medicare.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s why he stared vacantly into the distance, mouth agape, like a man whose brain was playing &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lAJB6HsYiNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yakety Sax<\/a>&rdquo; on repeat and could let no other thoughts get through. Too much prepping.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, in case you forgot, spent literally all week preparing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-called-upon-take-drug-test-ahead-debate-american-people-deserve-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">match-up at Camp David<\/a>, forgoing all public appearances. I assume there was ample chance for rest, considering that I don&rsquo;t think the guy was putting in 18-hour days. We are to believe that what we saw Thursday was the result of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-home-where-documents-were-discovered-has-had-many-visitors\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Home Where Documents Were Discovered Has Had Many Visitors\">debate prep team<\/a> just wearing the poor guy out.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, whoever this idiot was is an outlier in terms of takes on the president&rsquo;s performance, but it&rsquo;s telling that the best excuse the Biden orbit can come up with is that, given nothing to do but prepare for a 99-minute debate in which he didn&rsquo;t have to talk for any stretch longer than two minutes on any topic at a single time, he wore himself down.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s universally agreed that the job of the president of the United States of America is one of the most arduous and important positions one can hold upon this earth. From the Civil War to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kennedy-served-2nd-term-60th-anniversary-jfks-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuban Missile Crisis<\/a> to 9\/11, these are moments that require vigorous and decisive leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The debate was conducted along the terms dictated by Joe Biden&rsquo;s team, moreover. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-bidens-performance-bad-people-started-wonder-hallucinated-audience-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No studio audience<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-pulls-trump-spokeswoman-air-telling-truth-debate-moderator-jake-tapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biased CNN moderators<\/a>, early date: The terms were set by the people who sent the president out there on Thursday. Trump agreed. Many people thought he was a fool for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Biden looks like a fool for even agreeing to a debate. And we&rsquo;re to believe what he really needed was a nice, long rest.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not what we elect a president for. That&rsquo;s why we have these debates: As a test not just of policy and temperament, but of mental and physical readiness.<\/p>\n<p>If the explanation for the &ldquo;DEFCON 1 moment&rdquo; was that prepping for the simple act of defending himself and his candidacy wore the guy out, guess what? He&rsquo;s not the guy for the job. His biggest flaw wasn&rsquo;t working too hard at prep. His biggest flaw is that he is aged, ragged, semi-coherent and only getting worse. No amount of explaining that away will work.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake &mdash; nothing will be the same after November 2024. Will you help us fight? Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&amp;utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=westernjournalism&amp;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>help us expose the America-hating elites<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  who will do everything they can to steal this election?&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We&rsquo;re a small group of people fighting to save the country for our readers and for our own family and friends. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&amp;utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=westernjournalism&amp;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Can we count on your help?<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>At this point, Big Tech has cut off our access to 90% of advertisers. Imagine if someone took 90% of your paycheck and there was nothing you could do. 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Please help us continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&amp;utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=westernjournalism&amp;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, and we will never surrender.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading The Western Journal and for believing in America.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>It is a pleasure to serve you.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please don&rsquo;t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&amp;utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=westernjournalism&amp;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-reacted-to-rush-limbaughs-death\/\" title=\"How The Media Reacted To Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Death\">political commentary<\/a> and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by C. Douglas Golden, June 29, 2024, at 7:57 am: Mentors universally advise against claiming your biggest flaw in a job interview is being &#8220;too much of a perfectionist,&#8221; &#8220;working too hard,&#8221; or being &#8220;too committed to getting the job done.&#8221; These responses are clich\u00e9d and unhelpful in securing employment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2285838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/biden-4-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[5374,14806,33312],"class_list":["post-2285837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-america","tag-gaslighting","tag-wh-aide"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/biden-4-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}