Posted on 06/03/2025 6:35:51 PM PDT by DoodleBob
…In the days since special counsel Robert Hur released a report that described Biden’s memory as “significantly limited,” presidential appointees and friendly lawmakers have been stepping forward one by one to attest to his acuity.
Biden asks “pertinent questions” and cares about “minute details,” they’ve told news outlets. He is “very engaging” and detail-oriented. The White House went so far as to put out a memo name-checking senior officials from both parties who’ve said they found Biden to be mentally sharp.
For all the people vouching for Biden, some prominent Democrats aren’t persuaded that the approach will ease concerns about his cognitive abilities. They worry that a protective White House staff has bubble-wrapped Biden in ways that tend to distance him from people who appreciate his humanity, flaws and all.
“You need to let Joe Biden be Joe Biden,” Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., said on “The Chuck ToddCast,” taped Tuesday.
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The special counsel’s report was sufficiently troubling that it should be grounds for Biden to leave the race, the ex-lawmaker said. (Biden has given no sign that he’s dropping out; at this point, Democrats would face a chaotic scramble to replace him if he did.)
…Eager to debunk the report last week, the White House hastily called a news conference in which the 81-year-old Biden insisted that “my memory has not gotten — my memory is fine.” With reporters shouting questions at him and Biden squinting into the lights, the event did little to stem the furor.
Since then, presidential appointees have scrambled to provide anecdotes showing him to be fully in charge.
Perhaps no official spends more time with Biden than his chief of staff, Jeff Zients. Press aides did not make him available for an interview. Instead, they released a statement from Zients that compared Biden favorably to much younger presidents — including Barack Obama, for whom Biden served as vice president.
“President Biden has gotten more done in three years than any other president in recent history,” Zients said. “How? No one works harder. No one asks tougher questions. No one is better at making decisions.”
Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to each of the last three Democratic presidents who now oversees the implementation of Biden’s American Rescue Plan, said the president’s advisers have grown accustomed to fielding detailed questions from him over minute policy details.
“Like a good student, you overprepare,” Sperling said of the homework that goes into a meeting with Biden. “When he does grill you, you’re happy you did.”
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When asked about Biden’s age, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who challenged Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, brought up policies enacted during Biden’s administration and urged the public to compare him to Donald Trump.
“I think that we’ve got to evaluate what’s happening right now by, one, what he has done, which is bring us out of this pandemic. [This is the] first time that we’re finally seeing negotiation on prescription drug prices, and focus on what matters to the American people and compare what he is doing to what we’ve got as the alternative on the Republican side, which is Donald Trump,” she said Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
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(The White House physician, Kevin O’Connor, wrote a report last year that discussed Biden’s “stiffened gait,” attributing it to arthritis of the spinal joints. Biden is due to take another physical soon. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested to reporters this week that O’Connor doesn’t believe a cognitive test is needed.)
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But Klobuchar on Sunday defended Biden’s ability to handle a second presidential term, describing him as “focused.”
“I was on Air Force One with the president going from Washington, D.C., to Wisconsin for an infrastructure project. And I was with the president for over an hour and talked about so many things, domestic, international,” she said on “Meet the Press.” “He was focused. His recall was good. It was the same experience that my colleagues had who met with him for hours, Democrats and Republicans, about the Mideast only a few weeks ago.”
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They’d like to see Biden make the case himself. In the podcast interview, Dingell said the president is being scripted to a fault.
“He’s being so managed that his compassion and his empathy” aren’t always breaking through, Dingell said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, another White House ally, said that Biden’s age is a potential asset if presented differently. Make the case that Biden installed a new Supreme Court justice when he was 79 and passed a landmark infrastructure bill at 78, Sharpton said.
The implication would be clear: Other presidents didn’t rack up as impressive a record even though they were decades younger.
“They should own it,” Sharpton said of the age issue.
Biden’s message should be: “I’m an old man that gets things done. Now, compare me with the old man I’m running against,” Sharpton said.
RE: And it took THREE PEOPLE to write this article!
One to slowly write in block letters with a large kindergarten crayon. And two to share the mindful feelings of the experience together.📓🖍️ 🤩🤩 💞
Karine Jean-Pierre suggested to reporters this week that O’Connor doesn’t believe a cognitive test is needed.)
and Klobuchar, like Morning Joe, thought Biden was sharp and alertly ready to be a great commander in chief.
Biden said we were past “malarky” but this seems like the reason you step carefully around a barn yard after the bull has been walking in front of you.
Age alone was never Joe Biden’s initial problem. He just was never very S-M-A-R-T to begin with, and the relatively early onset of cognitive decline merely exacerbated the diminished mental capacity.
But man, he could always talk himself up over the years. What he did not actually do, he could just crib it from somebody else’s experience, and pass it off as his own.
Yes.
White House employee.
“Ha, my 2025 Mercedes-Maybach S 680 4MATIC sold to me with my payments of $100 a month to pay off in one year. Thank you, autopen.”
“The $240,500 base price changed to meet Biden’s federal emergency guidelines to get a federal employee to safety. I feel safer now.”
It apparently took three people to write this article on February 18, 2024, according to the NBC News heading. Is it just now becoming important?
“Age alone was never Joe Biden’s initial problem.”
Bernie Sanders helps make the case for this. He’s even a little older than Joe Biden, and as much as I disagree with Bernie politically, he gives the impression of having much better cognitive ability.
Meanwhile, I was calling him Dementia Joe during the 2020 campaign, which I declared was elder abuse, and that Jill was guilty of that.
Yeah, Joetato was ‘tarded long before he ran for President.
Biden’s allies are stepping forward to protect the guilty that tried to destroy the country for four years.
Communism never sleeps
THE “DEFINITION” THEY ARE USING FOR “SHARP & ALERT” DOES NOT EVER APPLY TO A INDY CAR DRIVER/ A NASCAR DRIVER/ OR A TOP FUEL DRAGSTER DRIVER
PROBABLY NOT EVEN TO AN UBER DRIVER
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