{"id":83260,"date":"2022-07-10T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83260"},"modified":"2022-07-10T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:30:50","slug":"83260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83260","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer is that he’s too senile.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Biden Is Too Old to Be President Says \u2014 the\u00a0New York Times?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

When the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0begins to question your fitness for office, maybe retiring to your Rehoboth beach house doesn\u2019t look like such a bad idea.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s extraordinary for a partisan news outlet like the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0to publish an in-depth look at such an \u201cuncomfortable\u201d issue as the president\u2019s age. But the 2,500-word article makes a case that Republicans could never make without being accused of partisanship.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden is too old to be president. The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0doesn\u2019t come out and say it, but they quote plenty of other people \u2014 close aides, friends, and Democrats \u2014 who admit that Biden is showing his age and that it might not be such a great idea for him to run for president in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Biden\u2019s public appearances have fueled that perception. His speeches can be flat and listless. He sometimes loses his train of thought, has trouble summoning names or appears momentarily confused. More than once, he has promoted Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her \u201cPresident Harris.\u201d Mr. Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, stumbles over words like \u201ckleptocracy.\u201d He has\u00a0said Iranian when he meant Ukrainian<\/a>\u00a0and several times called Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, \u201cJohn,\u201d confusing him with the late Republican senator of that name from Virginia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s not a state secret. Biden\u2019s difficulties with age are well known to foreign leaders, who tried their best to cover for him last month during his trip to Europe.<\/p>\n

During his European trip last month, foreign leaders followed his lead while protectively treating him like a distinguished elderly relative. At a photo opportunity, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany gently pointed Mr. Biden in the direction of the cameras. Just before a meeting, a reporter twice shouted a question about getting grain out of Ukraine. When Mr. Biden could not hear the question, Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, rescued him. \u201cWe\u2019re working on it,\u201d Mr. Johnson responded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those aides closest to Biden try their best to hide his infirmities, but it\u2019s a nerve-wracking job to prevent the president from embarrassing himself.<\/p>\n

But they acknowledged Mr. Biden looks older than just a few years ago, a political liability that cannot be solved by traditional White House stratagems like staff shake-ups or new communications plans. His energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire. He stumbles over words during public events, and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI do feel it\u2019s inappropriate to seek that office after you\u2019re 80 or in your 80s,\u201d said David Gergen, a top adviser to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. \u201cI have just turned 80 and I have found over the last two or three years I think it would have been unwise for me to try to run any organization. You\u2019re not quite as sharp as you once were.\u201d<\/p>\n

Experts on age say there\u2019s no evidence Biden is incapacitated, but even partisan \u201cexperts\u201d question whether he should run again. Jay Olshansky, a longevity specialist at the University of Illinois Chicago, told the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cthere\u2019s no evidence that the age of Biden should matter one ounce\u201d in your vote for president. But what if he wins re-election?<\/p>\n

Still, Professor Olshansky said it was legitimate to wonder if that would remain so at 86. \u201cThat\u2019s the right question to be asking,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t sugarcoat aging. Things go wrong as we get older and the risks rise the older we get.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, professor. It won\u2019t matter \u201cone ounce\u201d that Biden is going to be 86 after his second term. We\u2019ll just cross our fingers and hope that things won\u2019t go wrong in his second term.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s approval rating has dropped off the edge of the earth. It\u2019s down to 30%, according to the\u00a0Civiqs tracking poll.<\/a>\u00a0Biden is deep underwater with voters in every age bracket, every educational level, and both genders. Biden\u2019s age may be of secondary concern to Democratic Party primary voters given Biden\u2019s hugely unpopular stewardship of the nation.<\/p>\n

Of course, Biden\u2019s age is a legitimate issue \u2014 now that Democrats are making it one. It may be a little premature, but it\u2019s a pretty safe bet that Biden is not going to run for re-election. The question now becomes one of timing. Biden may wait until after the midterms. He may even want to give Kamala Harris a leg up and resign from the presidency \u201cfor health reasons.\u201d Giving Harris the \u201cincumbent\u201d tag may help her in the primaries, but she\u2019d still be toast in the general election.<\/p>\n

The Democrat\u2019s gamble of presenting Biden as a \u201csane\u201d alternative to Donald Trump has failed. And there\u2019s no one on the horizon for Democrats who have the heft or stature to fill the leadership void.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer is that he’s too senile. Biden Is Too Old to Be President Says \u2014 the\u00a0New York Times? When the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0begins to question your fitness for office, maybe retiring to your Rehoboth beach house doesn\u2019t look like such a bad idea. It\u2019s extraordinary for a partisan news outlet like the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0to publish … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83262,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83260\/revisions\/83262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}