Posted on 07/11/2024 10:56:32 PM PDT by NetAddicted
If President Joe Biden‘s goal in tonight’s press conference were to avoid being outed from office through the 25th Amendment, he would have succeeded. But in trying to save his campaign, he utterly failed.
Biden clearly showed he is not completely non compos mentis. In general, he is aware of what is going on, and when he isn’t in a bad spell, he can essentially keep track of policy. What he did not come close to doing, though, is to convince anybody with half a brain that he will be up for the job for four more years.
Biden looked and sounded old. Biden rambled a lot, even if not entirely insensibly. He committed yet another howler of a mistake by referring to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Trump” on the same day that he referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “Putin.” He repeatedly did that weird and unsettling thing where he suddenly lowers his voice sometimes almost to a whisper, for effect, but rather randomly, without any real reason to do so. He almost never speaks distinctly, showing that even on a comparatively “good” night for him, he still garbles words, runs words together, and repeats phrases in odd ways.
Biden barely reassured watchers that he has the vigor expected of the leader of the free world for the next six months. There is no imaginable way that he can still be doing so in 2027 or 2028 — or, frankly, even by this time next year.
It is utterly irresponsible to ask the country to elect him to serve until January 2029. Again, this is not about whether he can kinda-sorta-semi-manage the presidency now. This is about grappling with China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorist Islamists, and others when he is 85 instead of 81.
A doddering old man cannot project even reasonable strength, much less power. But a president who cannot project power leaves 330 million people at risk, not to mention perhaps billions more around a world that could become far more unstable if the president is weak and ineffective.
Biden is acting like a selfish man refusing to accept reality or put country above self. He ought to withdraw with dignity before he is shoved aside like frayed, torn old furniture.
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Kevin McCarthy claims Biden dilemma is turning into Democratic Party’s ‘Watergate’
The Big BOy Presser, so called . was a staged event with pre approved rehearsed questions, assmbled to make it apear that Joe is vidorous and capable for serving four more years.
The message was , “ I am not Going ! “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOZqgA2wvfQ
What a joke.
Biden has pulled a final scam for his sordid career on the DNC.
All the knives will come out.
Trump is ready.
Trump is ready.
He didn’t save his campaign... He lit a match to it.
I no Obozzo fan either. I just do not like things under the table or illegal.
If they leak the Hur tape in its entirety then Biden’s finished.
People like you are just determined to lose aren’t they?
Next step is the DemonicRats go scorched earth on this country to prevent the election from happening.
LOL
Watergate? Nixon wanted the DOJ to dig up dirt on the Dems. Biden is using the DOJ to put Trump in jail for fake crimes. Not even close.
A vote for Biden is a vote for Kamala. Between them, they only have a few brain cells left. I think Kamala smokes weed.
Now I know I’m being used
That’s okay man ‘cause I like the abuse
Now I know she’s playing with me
That’s okay ‘cause I’ve got no HIGH self-esteem
Oh yeah, yeah oh yeah, yeah
Didn’t I hear Biden say something to the effect that he and his advisors were “surprised” at the lack of US weapons manufacturing capacity?
Such ignorance should be a disqualifier for the entire Administration, right there.
Vice President Trump?
81 million votes this moron received in 2020. Yea, right, everybody knows, it was stolen .He was this bad in 2020 and they snaked him in there to give Obama his 3rd term. I say hang the lot of them!
“Biden is acting like a selfish man refusing to accept reality or put country above self.”
Bingo.
The Democrats have no way out of their problem without considerable political pain and lost ground that puts many of their candidates up and down the ballot at risk. The best that they can hope for is an intervention by Jill and Hunter Biden that soon induces Joe to exit the race. Yet Jill’s narcissism and Hunter’s grifting ways make that difficult. They would almost certain to extract a steep price for Joe to drop out, with the terms of any deal subject to public speculation and eventual disclosure.
Exactly
We should be carrying him to the finish line
We as republicans should stfu and make sure he is the nominee
I’ll start
This alzheimer thing with Biden is overblown
He has done a great job with Ukraine the economy and gaza and the pro Palestinian encampments
Let’s gooooo Biden. Experience over youthfulness
Is that the law that only Biden and Harris can spend the money?
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