Posted on 03/06/2020 10:15:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining faculties say that similar fears about Joe Biden’s are overblown.
“A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that Donald Trump has shown,” Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, told Yahoo News, “and none of them apply to Joe Biden.”
Yet since Biden’s reemergence as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Lee has been flooded by requests to assess the former vice president’s string of stumbles in public appearances. In response, she published a piece on Medium correcting what she sees as the false equivalence between Trump’s “mental instability” and Biden’s occasional gaffes.
To be sure, one reason the topic of Biden’s mental capacity has become an issue in the campaign is that he has often struggled to express himself at campaign events and debates. But Biden, who has struggled with a stutter since childhood, has been prone to bouts of inarticulateness for decades.
If he goes on to win the presidency, Biden would be, at 78, the oldest American ever sworn into office.
While Lee emphasizes that Trump’s psyche is the much larger issue, she acknowledges that all those who seek the highest office in the land need to be evaluated in terms of mental health.
“It’s not an absent observation. Some of it may happen with normal decline. Others may be a warning sign, but we don’t know that without an examination,” Lee said. “But still, I would emphasize that I would give attention to the overwhelming danger that we have before us. Until that is addressed, or unless that is addressed, I personally do not wish to hear about Joe Biden.”
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Luckily, they’re both going to release full independent medical evaluations before the election......
HAHAHAHAHAHA~!
Bandy Lee again?
I wouldn’t hire her to give my dog a pill.
Not this Lee idiot again!
LOL! Joementia. The only cure is PROPAGANDA.
Calling it Super Thursday is not stuttering. Saying he is running for Senate is not stuttering.
A classic example of whataboutism.
So both sides are making diagnosis of the other side’s candidate without ever conducting a clinical examination? Doesn’t that violate a number of medical ethics?
That's her stripper name.
Well, she isn’t pretending to be a veterinarian, so . . . but I get your point.
“Biden “digresses and gets tangential, that’s not cognitive decline,” Lynne Meyer, a California psychologist told Yahoo News. “Trump’s cognitive decline or problems are that he doesn’t even seem to have comprehension of reality. That’s what it looks like.”
Yeah, right...not to mention Biden is a PERVERT
Of course it is. President Trump always has trouble telling his wfe from his sister. Or what state he’s in.
Lol! Love the meme!
There us a reason suicide is very high among mental health professionals. That’s because of the amount if batshut crazy people in their ranks.
This is just propaganda to stop the obvious hit on Joe. He will look stupid over and over again in the next 6 months.
Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining faculties say that similar fears about Joe Biden’s are overblown. “
There is a large group in this country that believes what it wants to believe and exactly opposite of reality. Add in seperate Law for them and for us and you have a problem that is going to crisis before it ever goes away.
I would take PDJT’s mind and thinking prowess over Slo Joe Biden’s dementia addled brain fart any DAY.
How is it that Bandy Lee has not been professionally disciplined for ethic violations?
The stone hard face of a Maoist executioner
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