Bidens mark first lady’s birthday with leisurely bike ride

The Associated Press ^ | June 3, 2021 | By AAMER MADHANI

[Oldeconomybuyer]

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden helped his wife celebrate her 70th birthday on Thursday with a leisurely bike ride.

The president and Jill Biden — with a few Secret Service agents in tow — cycled the paved Cape Henlopen State Park trail near their Delaware beach home.

[1Old Pro]

Meanwhile, Putin is wrestling alligators.

And shutting down our food and energy systems.

[hanamizu]

White House press corps helped the FDR administration keep his wheelchair confinement from the American public for years. The great unwashed had no idea he couldn’t walk.

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Respectfully, I believe this is a myth. The press certainly made a point of never showing FDR in a wheelchair, but I’m pretty sure everyone knew FDR was ‘crippled’. He was a founder of the March of Dimes, a charity devoted to curing polio—which is why his portrait graces the dime instead of a larger value coin. His visits to Warm Springs, GA, which was a polio treatment center were reported on as well.

Now, by late ‘44, it was obvious that FDR’s health was declining. I suppose the press didn’t point it out because it was war time. I know that both my parents told me they were shocked when FDR died in ‘45.

Thing is polio and his using braces to stand had no effect on his abilities to act as President. If Biden’s mental acuity is as much diminished as it appears, that certainly does affect his ability to do the job we’re told he was elected to.

[OLDCU]

Who takes off on a working weekday, to celebrate their wife’s birthday?

[dinodino]

That doesn’t look like Biden.

[x]

You are right. Article here. But I think the average voter, seeing FDR standing (supported by metal braces and often by his son), didn't know how bad his paralysis was.

[hanamizu]

Yes, he and his sons had a bit of a trick where he would use them as crutches to ‘walk’ very short distances. You see lots of pictures of him with his arm hooked around another man’s arm. But of course a person would have to be very dim not to catch on with what you never saw in the newsreels—FDR walking everywhere.

[JennysCool]

Another leisurely sojourn in Delaware.

Does this guy ever work? It seems the most he ever does is stand in front of a camera and deliver a 10-minute speech incoherently.

[1Old Pro]

It seems the most he ever does is stand in front of a camera and deliver a 10-minute speech incoherently>/I>

Thankfully it's a heck of a lot more than Harris does.

[JennysCool]

I'm sorry, that is NOT Joe Biden!

[John W]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1400532529627766791?s=21

[1Old Pro]

So not using a Helmet strap is supposed to keep it on your head in a fall?

[ScubaDiver]

People certainly knew he had polio and was hobbled by it. But, I don't think it was widely understood (at the time) that he was effectively paralyzed from the waist down...for the entirety (and before) of his presidential tenure.

In recent years, some media outlets have looked to ease the duplicity of both his White House and (to some degree) the White House press corps on this issue, writing stories like: 'Of Course People Knew FDR was in a Wheelchair.'

But, I think a more even-handed, objective telling of the story is - put charitably - less than complimentary to FDR and his administration on this issue...

How FDR kept his partial paralysis a secret from the American public — even while he was on the campaign trail

[JennysCool]

You aren’t required to protect your head if there’s nothing in it.

[sphinx]

A working weekday? I thought he called a lid two days after the inauguration and that’s still in effect.

[1Old Pro]

How embarrassing, they guy has people on bikes behind him and at least 3 golf carts full of people. Can’t he get a Peloton and save us the money?

[Organic Panic]

Awwww. isn’t it nice for the “return to normalcy” where EVERY single act of Biden is the most wonderful thing since the Obamas?

[Joe Boucher]

Jill you worthless power mad piece of crap.
How can you exploit your senile husband like you do?

[Army Air Corps]

“Tell me about the rabbits, Jill.”

[Glad2bnuts]

THAT is not Joe Biden, born in 1942 or thereabouts.

[nicollo]

Chairman Biteme