I no longer will discuss whether Joe Biden is cognitively diminished. That is no longer an issue. The issue is how far gone he is.
Here, from Victor Nava’s article at the New York Post, via msn.com, is a “progress report”:
President Biden’s cognitive decline is readily apparent and a concern for dozens who have interacted with the 81-year-old commander-in-chief in recent months, according to a shocking report Tuesday.
Some of the more the 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers interviewed by the Wall Street Journal described a president who spoke so softly during meetings that participants struggled to understand him.
Others noted that Biden’s demeanor and grasp of policy details varied by the day and he frequently relied on notes and deferred to aides during conferences.
“You couldn’t be there and not feel uncomfortable,” one person, who met with the president during critical negotiations over congressional funding for Ukraine aid in January, told the outlet. “I’ll just say that.”
Others in attendance recalled that it took Biden about 10 minutes from when he entered the room to get the meeting started, and when he did, he used note cards to make obvious points that everyone was already in agreement with and participants could barely hear him.
Biden is gone. He’s over. He is not in control of himself, let alone of the country.
Who is running the United States of America? Who will be running the United States of America for an additional four years if what is left of Biden wins in November?
How can Biden be trotted out to participate in a grueling re-election campaign if he can’t even just stand in front of a friendly audience and read off a sheet? How can he possibly debate Trump (or anyone else) on June 27th – just three weeks from now – even with the two Trump-hating moderators CNN is supplying? I can’t see a way this happens. He/his puppeteers will find a way – blaming Trump, no doubt – to not go through with it.
For some time now I have assumed that a pretext will be devised to remove Joe Biden from the top of the ticket. That assumption has done nothing but strengthen.
The big question: who will replace him? That , I have no answer for.
Stay tuned.
