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Inside Biden’s Protective White House
New York Times via Yahoo ^ | February 10th, 2024 | Katie Rogers and Lisa Lerer

Posted on 02/10/2024 6:17:59 PM PST by Mariner

WASHINGTON — Aides have President Joe Biden take the shorter stairs to board Air Force One. When it comes to news conferences, they yell loudly — and quickly — to end the questions, sometimes stealing a classic awards show tactic and playing loud music to signal the conclusion of the event. And forget about regular interviews with major news publications, including a traditional presidential sit-down on Super Bowl Sunday.

Over the years, some of Biden’s key aides have gone from letting “Joe be Joe” to wrapping a presidential cocoon around him that is intended to shield him from verbal slips and physical stumbles.

All presidents are shielded by the strictures of the office, yet for Biden, who at 81 is the oldest person in history to hold the job, the decision is not only situational but strategic, according to several people who are familiar with the dynamic. The cloistered nature of his White House reflects a concern among some of his top aides that Biden, who has always been prone to gaffes, risks making a mistake.

Those risks were revealed in striking ways during the events that unfolded this past week.

After a special counsel’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents was published Thursday, the president was furious with how he was portrayed, viewing the report as a partisan and personal attack that included one of the most gutting experiences of his life — his son Beau’s death.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforceone; biden; dementia; dementiajoe; shorterstairs; whitehouse
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To: central_va

I hope you’re right.

I don’t think any Dem can beat Trump but at the same time I don’t think any Dem would do as badly as Joetato.


21 posted on 02/10/2024 7:37:27 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Zathras

Read the whole article.

Five different Democrats talked about how wonderful and alert he was.


22 posted on 02/10/2024 7:40:05 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: central_va

“Biden is not going anywhere.”

Agreed.

If you read the whole article it is a justification for a second term.

Many Freepers are living in a bubble on this topic. This was a more favorable article than Donald Trump has received in the last ten years.


23 posted on 02/10/2024 7:42:33 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Mariner
“Leader of the Free World”, ladies and gentlemen.

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24 posted on 02/10/2024 7:52:46 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Avalon Memories

“It’s not Biden’s age by itself that is the problem. Plenty of very old people are mentally sharp. With Biden, it’s lack of mental acuity combined with life-long bad character”.

Winner!! He’s a sorry excuse for a human being.


25 posted on 02/10/2024 7:53:59 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Sicon

“Leader of the Free World”, ladies and gentlemen.

And there is no longer a “Free World”.


26 posted on 02/10/2024 7:55:51 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Mariner
White House officials have not said when Biden will receive another physical exam. The last one was conducted nearly a year ago by Kevin C. O’Connor, the president’s longtime physician, who declared his patient, then 80, to be “healthy” and “vigorous.”

”Healthy and vigorous”

”Safe and effective”

”Controlled and secure”

They are spitting in our faces, every day.

27 posted on 02/10/2024 8:10:52 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: laplata
“And there is no longer a “Free World”.”

Yeah, that occurred to me as I was typing it.

28 posted on 02/10/2024 8:19:19 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: cgbg
An ostensible slam that is nothing more than a disguised puff piece.....Smarten up people.
29 posted on 02/10/2024 8:37:36 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Zathras; All

“Feels like the Clinton’s are behind this.”

Sure does!!!
Nothing smells like Clinton collateral damage.

https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2018/10/headlines-media-never-reported-bloodgate.html?m=1

https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2017/10/russiagatewhere-is-craig-livingstone.html?m=1


30 posted on 02/10/2024 8:48:25 PM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Mariner

If releasing the transcripts exonerated fjb they would have been released the fact they weren’t proves hur case. Once everyone realizes this he is toast


31 posted on 02/10/2024 9:33:06 PM PST by genghis (Cathinkngact only re check ason go after e puthatn 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: AuntB

So is Alex Baldwin... so be careful!!


32 posted on 02/10/2024 9:36:00 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: packagingguy

Rush was right and is still right.

Biden serves at the behest of baraq hussein.

When baraq is done with him, biden will be tossed out.

done deal.


33 posted on 02/10/2024 9:40:19 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: Sicon

I didn’t mean it as a criticism to you. Thanks.


34 posted on 02/10/2024 9:47:49 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Spaceman49

Ah...yes. My memory failed me.


35 posted on 02/11/2024 12:43:09 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: princeofdarkness

Oh, they knew. Everybody knew. It’s just that in the Mafia, you have to get permission from the Dons to take someone who is ‘made’ out.


36 posted on 02/11/2024 1:10:21 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Mariner

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37 posted on 02/11/2024 5:15:36 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: traderrob6

Name one Democratic US Senator that has gone on the record saying Biden is unfit for office.

crickets....


38 posted on 02/11/2024 5:18:15 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

I was agreeing with you pal.


39 posted on 02/11/2024 6:11:11 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Mariner

While without question Biden is now senile as a coot, how impaired he was when he was inaugurated? Before Biden was closeted in his basement during the campaign, he had dementia outbursts. It can be argued he was too impaired even then to have been elected as POTUS. The other difficult question is who has been running the country when Joe has been a befuddled figurehead.


40 posted on 02/11/2024 8:38:39 AM PST by The Great RJ ( )
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