Just goes to show how the liberal media will protect Biden and not question his dementia addled mind.
A New York Times columnist downplayed concerns over Joe Biden's age, arguing that the country does not need a fully-functioning president.
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Wow.
The real article is worse than you think.
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The biggest reason that many Democratic officials are nervous about President Biden’s age is not his ability to do the job in a second term.
Strange as it may sound, the American government can function without a healthy president. The U.S. marched toward victory in World War II while Franklin Roosevelt was ailing in 1944 and 1945. Four decades later, the government managed its relationship with a teetering Soviet Union while Ronald Reagan’s mental capacities slipped. In each case, White House aides, Cabinet secretaries and military leaders performed well despite the lack of a fully engaged leader.
The issue that makes many Democrats even more anxious than Biden’s second-term capabilities is whether his age will prevent him from
winning a second term. If enough voters are turned off by the idea of a president who would turn 86 in office, Republicans might win full control of the federal government in 2024 — and Donald Trump might return to the White House.
I know that it may seem crass for Democrats to worry more about partisan politics than the mental acuity of the country’s most powerful person. But it’s not entirely irrational. Today, I will look at the biggest question about Biden’s re-election campaign —
which he formally announced yesterday — and how he might address that question.
A gaffe machine
At 80, Biden can be an unsteady public performer. He occasionally uses the wrong word or fails to summon a name. Some of these habits are not new, to be sure.
Biden has a stutter, which can make it seem as if he can’t remember words when in fact he is struggling to enunciate them. He has also long been known for saying things that he probably shouldn’t.
“Biden living up to his gaffe-prone reputation,” read
a Times headline in 2008, when he was only 65. That same year,
Slate magazine wrote, “He misspeaks so often, it’s hardly news — and hardly damaging.”
But aging does seem to have exacerbated these issues. In the upcoming campaign, you can imagine that a verbal misstep could cause some swing voters to wonder whether Biden is up for a second term.
These concerns help explain why polls show that roughly three-quarters of Democratic voters approve of Biden’s performance but slightly less than half want him to run for a second term.
Of course, there would be a simple way for Biden to address the concerns: He could spend more time speaking in public now and demonstrate his vigor. Instead, he and his aides have chosen the opposite approach.
The quiet strategy
Biden has held fewer news conferences per year than any president since Reagan. Biden gave fewer interviews during his first two years in office than any president in even longer.
