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The new president has escaped scrutiny while the Press is more concerned about the fashion sense of Vice-President Kamala Harris, from her Converse shoes to her purple inauguration dress.

Is it just me who’s thinking that the Press is going soft on Joe Biden in the early days of his presidency? Perhaps the media is giving him some time and a long rope to settle into the job though he’s been a Washington insider for most of his life. They didn’t give Trump that option at the start of his presidency if I remember right. But let bygones be bygones in the re-United States of America as the liberals would like us to believe.

The new president has escaped scrutiny while the Press is more concerned about the fashion sense of Vice-President Kamala Harris, from her Converse shoes to her purple inauguration dress. Biden, however, is a cut above when he sports a $7,000 Rolex during his first signing outing at the Oval Office. The mainstream Press didn’t watch that wrist, but the tabloids wrestled with it. Elitist maybe. He didn’t look like the commoner’s Joe that his acolytes portray him to be.

Nevertheless, I like uncle Joseph; I really do. Joe, if I may call him that, has had it tough for most of close to five decades in public life. I like his grit, his fortitude for making both a personal and political comeback after losing his wife and baby daughter in a road accident four decades ago.

His sons Hunter and Beau survived the crash and Joe has admitted in interviews that he contemplated suicide as he nursed his sons back to health in those dark says. But he fought back for his family and country and here is, as President of the greatest democracy on the planet.

Joe later lost Beau to brain cancer and I have been a fan of the man who I would call the master of modern comebacks to make it to his country’s highest office, though I despise the make-believe niceness that his Democratic party seeks to espouse. I like Joe because he never gave up on his dream since making his first pitch for president in 1988 when a plagiarism scandal wrecked his campaign.

Personal tragedy has made him the president that he is. It could define and dictate his actions, and what he wants to be remembered for as commander in chief. Or is it too early to judge the family man who wants to be perceived as everyman and woman’s leader? I still can’t get that watch out of mind and I am tempted to think he will be a sugar-coated president who will be easily forgiven by the Press if he trespasses, which will do great harm to the neutrality of the media, or what is left of the virtue that few believe in.

At the moment, Joe is taking off from where Barack Obama left in 2016. This is Obama 2.0. Better safe than sorry. No gaffes so far, just the right words, or none at all since he made that unity speech during the inauguration. But he’s a man who appears to be in a hurry to get things done, or rescind some of his predecessor’s unpopular decisions like the ban on people from some Muslim countries that was racist at its core.

– allan@khaleejtimes.com