The flowery descriptions and use of adjectives are all fawning over Biden. It’s odd to see a president get such praise from a professional journalist and I can’t think of a prior example by the Times in recent years.
Thanks for clarifying about what they meant by credibility, but it’s still deeply frustrating that Biden is working so hard to soothe Israelis while being absolutely tone deaf at best to Palestinians. For example he was uncritically repeating claims that he had no doubt a Hamas command center was under the hospital and after all that carnage there want. Even his op-Ed in the Washington Post where he tried to mention Palestinians came off as insulting (he said Jewish Americans were scared and Arab Americans and Muslim Americans were angry. We’re terrifed too, hate crimes have skyrocketed, and it almost sounds like he’s feeding into a stereotype about us.)