Posted on 03/25/2021 4:13:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
There was another time in U.S. history when a president was incapable of serving. His name was Woodrow Wilson, and he had had a stroke, a debilitating one. He never recovered. For about 18 months, the nation was without a president. World War I was over, and the country was on the cusp of the Roaring 20s, so perhaps having a leader wasn’t as imperative.
Politico remembered Wilson’s October 1919 stroke in this October 2019 article.
For a time, it was one of greatest cover-ups in the annals of the American presidency. (Many more years would pass before ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, which specifies the procedures to be followed in the event of a presidential disability.) Edith [Wilson, the First Lady] would regularly review pending legislation and executive documents -- becoming, according to some historians, the de facto acting president. [Italics added]
Seem familiar? It should.
A little more than a century later, history is repeating itself -- sort of. President Joe Biden is functionally incapable of discharging his duties. Robotically signing executive orders doesn’t count. In 1919, the stroke that waylaid Wilson was covered up. Wilson wasn’t paraded before the public. Then, a measure of decorum was maintained in deference to citizens’ sensibilities. (Wilson rode with his successor, Warren G. Harding, to Harding’s inaugural, but didn’t stay.)
Not so with Biden. The 46th president is trotted out before cameras often enough. Almost inevitably, some aspect of his meager performances proves his dysfunction. He fluffs lines, forgets, wanders off message, and, last Friday, stumbled so badly up the stairs to Air Force One that he was within an inch of serious injury.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We have come form the best president to... this one is so bad it is difficult to compare.
there’s a difference between an American president..and a CCP puppet
CCP puppet ...
My eye doctor said he was a clone.
Biden’s stumbles on the steps to Air Force One are a metaphor for his performance as president: He is falling down on the job.
I worry that so many of my fellow Americans voted for Biden. What were they thinking? My supposition: they were blinded by their hate of Trump.
bump
We have to remember that McConnell knew who Joe Biden was and what he represented! McCarthy knew! The courts, including SCOTUS, knew! Pence knew! But none of them, not one, was concerned enough to save America from the leftists! Now that’s a grand story that they will be able to tell their grandchildren!
The major difference here is that Wilson was in the tail end months of his presidency. Policies were set. They just needed to keep the boat moving.
Biden has just started...
ILLEGAL RESIDENT
Not POTUS!
What’s with the black eyes?
Hate for Trump = hate for America
But that is a minute logical variation WAY too sophisticated for Liberal thought
I believe that idiot was trying to show off.
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