Posted on 02/29/2024 8:58:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Several former Obama administration aides raised the alarm about Joe Biden’s age and mental acuity, warning he is too “frail” to serve another term.
Three aides to the former president concluded Biden’s age is a valid issue as the 2024 election looms, voicing fears that Trump could take back the White House.
Chief speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor weighed in on Biden’s goal in an episode of their “Pod Save America” podcast.
While discussing special counsel Robert Hur’s decision not to charge Biden with a crime following an investigation into his mishandling of classified documents, Favreau said the general consensus is that Biden is just a “frail” old man.
He also expressed concerns that a jury might have found Biden a somewhat sympathetic figure because of his age and memory issues.
“If you watch Joe Biden speak, oftentimes he sounds frail, and he sounds more frail than he used to, even in 2019 and 2020,” said Favreau.
While he said he didn’t believe Biden is cognitively compromised, he did say many Americans view him that way.
“The voice sounds frail, and he shuffles more because of the arthritis in his back. … He is mumbly, and I think that has an effect on people,” Favreau said.
He also pointed to recent polling showing that most Americans are concerned about Biden’s age.
Favreau added that even if the media stopped talking about Biden’s age tomorrow, “concerns would still be there.”
He added that Biden’s cognitive health is “a very real issue.”
This comes as polls show most people “worry Joe Biden is ineffective as president.”
Meanwhile, Lovett argued that Trump is painting Biden as weak, working against him keeping the White House.
“When world events seem like they are overtaking him and he’s not out there enough forcefully, that’s what’s getting people concerned,” Favreau said.
They concluded that Biden should make more public appearances to encourage public confidence.
“I’m sure that going out there means more missteps like confusing Mexico and Egypt … more gaffes that start circulating, but if you don’t view Biden being out there more as a net positive, then the argument he shouldn’t be running is right,” Lovett said.
Favreau also noted that Biden skipped the annual tradition of speaking to a reporter the morning of the Super Bowl, another sign of trouble for Biden.
As we highlighted, 86 percent of Americans believe Biden lacks the mental capacity to serve another term.
The Daily Fetched reported:
According to a poll by ABC News/Ipsos following the Special Counsel report that described Biden as “an elderly man with a poor memory,” meaning he should not be subject to charges from the classified documents scandal, Americans think Biden is incapable of serving.
The polls found 73 percent of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve.
A whopping 91 percent of Independents also feel Biden is too old.
Mainstream media outlets like ABC News attempted to cover for Biden by also claiming Donald Trump is too old to serve.
Rather than focusing on the issue hand, Biden’s age, the report goes to massive lengths to include Trump, noting that “the figure includes 59% of Americans who think both [Biden] and former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, are too old and 27% who think only Biden is too old.”
Tell the aides, “He didn’t serve *this* one. So what’s it to ya?”
Big Mike could be getting ready to make his big move and bring Barack along
I need more popcorn, this is about to get good.
Interesting to see Obama continues to undermine Biden. Obviously Obama has something nefarious up his sleeve, and I just don’t think it’s Michelle. She’s simply too lazy to step away from her pampered lifestyle.
I’m looking forward to the fight between Mike and Kamala.
Did ya hear it?
It’s quiet for now..
But I heard that diesel bus start and it just went in to gear. It looks to be headed towards Biden.
(Aka ohblahblah and the rats are gonna throw Joe under the bus)
Probably won’t be newsome either (although he’s been acting like it would be him) California is about to collapse.
I have been thinking the same thing.
“Why only 2 terms? That is archaic. The people want me.”
Barack Hussein Obama
He’s got the same brain capacity he had 40 years ago so I don’t see the problem here.
Who’s six foot two and full of muscle?
A man from Brussels...................
The Democrats are forming a perfect circular firing squad.
We want a draw with high casualties.
;-)
The only times Democrats make a mistake is when they overreach..............
FRAIL: Freakin’ Right At Incompetency Limit
I want the entire clan thrown under the steamroller.
One day the fraud is too feeble minded to be held accountable for his actions then the next day he is healthy and strong enough to lead the world.
The media is a sociopath saying whatever lie it needs to at the time depending on who is listening.
We are witnessing the presumptive outcome unfold:
Biden wins the nomination.
Biden refuses to run, citing health concerns.
Michelle Obama is selected as the 2024 nominee, by the direction of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama gets a fourth term as president.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
― George Orwell, 1984
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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