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Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn't too old for a second term: 'We all have an issue with memory when we get older!'
Daily Mail ^ | April 22, 2024 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo

Posted on 04/22/2024 9:35:12 AM PDT by Angelino97

Michael Douglas has given his take on whether Joe Biden is too old to run again.

During a Sunday appearance on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, the Oscar-winner, 79, was asked whether Biden was in good enough cognitive shape to continue.

'Well I think that I walk a little similar to him, and the people that I've talked to say he is as sharp as a tack... he's fine,' Douglas, two years Biden's junior, said.

'We all have an issue with memories as we get older, we forget names.

'He's overcome a stutter in his life and sometimes he might [stutter], but let's just say his entire cabinet including his vice-president would be more than happy to work with him again in the next term.

'I cannot say that about the other candidate running because nobody in his in his cabinet for 2016 wants to be involved with him,' he said of Trump.

Zakaria further pushed Douglas, asking whether Biden would be able to run the country four years from now, when he is well into his 80s. If Biden, already the oldest president ever, wins re-election, he will be 86 by the end of his second term.

'I think he'll be fine, thank you very much,' repeated the actor, who plays Benjamin Franklin on Apple TV's Franklin, which depicts the founding father's time in Paris during the Revolutionary War.

'This is probably the most important election of my lifetime. This is the most critical time of my lifetime that I can remember. We need somebody in control who has some experience and knows how to work a global situation.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; clintonnonnews; cnn; dementiajoe; fareedzakaria; michaeldouglas; sharp
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Michael Douglas is an extraordinary actor -- he read his lines while keeping a straight face.
1 posted on 04/22/2024 9:35:12 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
'Well I think that I walk a little similar to him, and the people that I've talked to say he is as sharp as a tack... he's fine,' Douglas, two years Biden's junior, said.
2 posted on 04/22/2024 9:36:19 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Ain’t nepotism wonderful.


3 posted on 04/22/2024 9:38:59 AM PDT by bray (Science says a human life begins at conception.)
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To: Angelino97

Old lefty coot supporting an old lefty coot. Who cares if you forget stuff and where to walk and what to do?


4 posted on 04/22/2024 9:39:34 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Angelino97

Apparently Douglas has almost the same mental ability as Biden


5 posted on 04/22/2024 9:39:58 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: Angelino97

They talk about him playing Benjamin Franklin as if that gives him the gravitas to speak on the current election. Michael Douglas can say what he wants to say. He can support Biden if he wants to. But no one cares. He’s an actor with an opinion. They’re a dime a dozen.


6 posted on 04/22/2024 9:40:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Angelino97

I was actually waiting for Michael Douglas’ opinion before I decided for whom I would vote.


7 posted on 04/22/2024 9:40:47 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Angelino97

Why do they always ask play actors their opinions? They live in a make believe world.


8 posted on 04/22/2024 9:42:39 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Because their job is to lead people astray.


9 posted on 04/22/2024 9:43:20 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Angelino97

Isn’t it odd that they describe him as sharp as a tack, yet we can clearly see and hear how confused he is when he appears in public? It’s a regular conundrum, I tell ya!


10 posted on 04/22/2024 9:45:22 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Angelino97

Age is not the issue.


11 posted on 04/22/2024 9:45:23 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Angelino97

Oh, go eat some virus filled cooters Mike.


12 posted on 04/22/2024 9:46:08 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Sharp as a tack?

A tack is a dumb object, with no memory whatsoever, and no intelligence at all. It hurts if you hold it the wrong way, and Biden has been hurting the country while doing wrong in many ways.

So, Biden is a thumb tack.


13 posted on 04/22/2024 9:47:04 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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“Michael Douglas, 79, says Biden, 81, isn’t too old for a second term: ‘We all have an issue with memory when we get older!’”

True but none of us ordinary people are responsible and have possession of Nuclear Weapons Codes.


14 posted on 04/22/2024 9:48:21 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Like you get a pass on terrible decisions if you’re demented. “Oh. It’s OK that he started a war. He’s demented. If he weren’t demented and started a war, then that would be a problem.”


15 posted on 04/22/2024 9:48:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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So? All the more reason to impeach for dereliction of duty.


16 posted on 04/22/2024 9:51:22 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

His career peaked with me on The Streets Of San Francisco.


17 posted on 04/22/2024 9:52:55 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: Angelino97
'Well I think that I walk a little similar to him, and the people that I've talked to say he is as sharp as a tack... he's fine,' Douglas, two years Biden's junior, said.

So you haven't sat down with Biden and tried to have a conversation with him yourself, you're relying on what other people tell you?

18 posted on 04/22/2024 9:53:12 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Angelino97

The left is trying to make it about the years because Biden and Trump are not much different in years, but it isn’t the years it is the mental condition, the media also tries to compensate by saying how lean and fit Biden is, which is meaningless, if a good, mentally sharp 80 year old leader develops a physical problem like bad knees or an eye issue it doesn’t matter as long as his brain is 100%.

Biden is mentally unfit, whether he was 60 or 70 or 81, doesn’t matter, the medical condition has hit him and that is that, Dementia isn’t universal but if you get it, there it is, and it didn’t matter if you were 60 or 90 when it came on.


19 posted on 04/22/2024 9:54:56 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: xoxox

Not much confidence in the guy that let ‘whats-her-name’ get away.


20 posted on 04/22/2024 9:55:18 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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