Posted on 02/11/2024 7:50:43 AM PST by Libloather
The New York Times editorial board slammed President Biden’s press conference that he gave in response to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s assessment of his "poor memory."
The editorial – published Friday – declared that Biden’s assurances during the presser that his memory is "fine" "didn’t work," and that they raised "more questions" about his sharpness.
The board then advised Biden that he needs to "do better" to convince the American people that he’s up to the job, especially as former President Trump has a "very real chance of retaking the White House."
The piece began by noting polls showing how a majority of American voters in battleground states "agreed with the statement that Mr. Biden’s ‘just too old to be an effective president,’" and that Hur’s report will further "test trust that the American people have in their president."
It then claimed that Biden’s response to that report made things even worse.
"Mr. Biden’s performance at his news conference on Thursday night was intended to assure the public that his memory is fine and argue that Mr. Hur was out of line; instead, the president raised more questions about his cognitive sharpness and temperament," the board declared.
It added that "he delivered emotional and snappish retorts in a moment when people were looking for steady, even and capable responses to fair questions about his fitness."
Summing it up, The Times said, "His assurances, in other words, didn’t work. He must do better."
It added that "the stakes in this presidential election are too high for Mr. Biden to hope that he can skate through a campaign with the help of teleprompters and aides and somehow defeat as manifestly unfit an opponent as Donald Trump, who has a very real chance of retaking the White House."
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Not that it matters, the Biden Campaign is in a tough spot, in order to prove his mind is not completely gone, they need to put him out in public more often, if they do that it will prove his mind is totally gone, the only alternative is drug him up and get him thru the election, the problem is giving an old man like Biden enough drugs to make him sound normal, it could do some real damage from the side effects.
What is hilarious about this editorial is that conventional political wisdom in the Internet age is....
You must respond immediately and forcefully to any and all charges.
That means the WH is very tempted to take on the NYT editorial board—as we sit here right now Biden is probably howling like a wounded animal and demanding his aides “do something”.
Of course anything they do will just make it worse...
I wish I had written that.
We need to keep Biden on the ticket.
Lol.
NYT is impatient because his docs and the deep state have not developed a cure for dementia. They don't blame the system which put him in office.
Biden’s mental capacity drain has accelerated over the last decade. There is even mention to this on the laptop from hell. Ronald Reagan left office in 1989 at age 78. There were reports that he had memory issues at the end of his second term. That might be the case, but he never flubbed a speech or interview. The press hated Reagan and would have gone full scale nuclear if memory issues were an apparent problem..
Remember when Cronkite reported that November day that Beau was killed in Viet Nam?
“Smarten up, you old dimwit!”
Why are they all looking sharply to the left?
“Mishandled” is a charitable misnomer. As both a Senator and Vice President he was not authorized to retain classified information and also took no steps to ensure their security. Yet because he didn’t protest when caught he is somehow more virtuous than Trump, who was authorized as President to declassify as he saw fit and retain the declassified documents as did many President’s before him. Yet special prosecutor Her deemed Hiden unprosecutible due to his infirmities. This is our two tiered corrupt DOJ.
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