Choose Your Own President Biden Press Conference Adventure

If you gazed intently into the Rorschach test of President Biden’s press conference, you probably saw whatever you already thought going on.

Like minds think alike, so it was no surprise that multiple commentators seized on the same idea I had watching President Biden’s highly anticipated by some, dreaded by others press conference to round off the NATO 75th anniversary festivities: Rorschach test.

The news media coverage and social media discourse surrounding the re-election campaign of President Biden since the debate indulged in a mass psychometric examination of the President’s speech patterns, mental acuity, physical presence, and so on. A long list of things to be dissected, analyzed, opined upon, so on and so forth. A nearly hour-long inkblot to see what the assembled press could, maybe wanted to, see.

Anyway, as the President repeatedly redirected in answering, the full uncut presser for reference:

Folks who went into the press conference looking for an aged, stilted, struggling Joe Biden got plenty of that. Viewers looking for President Biden to go long on time and deep into minute details on certain answers got that. The press that wanted more than just a few questions asked got that, including — according to the President himself — a few bonus ones. The Team…