Posted on 07/22/2024 10:50:32 PM PDT by bitt
When President Joe Biden began his campaign trip in Las Vegas last week, everything seemed to be running as smoothly as it could for an 81-year-old president in physical and cognitive decline.
The day before he abruptly left town, Biden delivered the keynote address in front of a packed crowd of almost five thousand people at the NAACP National Convention at the Mandalay Bay hotel.
On Wednesday, Biden was scheduled to deliver the keynote at the UnidosUS annual convention at the MGM Grand, with thousands in attendance anticipating his arrival. With the venue located right off the Las Vegas Strip, the president’s security detail and motorcade required massive outside support from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
President Biden did not appear at the convention, or any of his scheduled events later that afternoon. Instead, he left town, departing Las Vegas on Air Force One for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he remains today.
Since that trip to Las Vegas, President Biden has announced over social media that he would not seek a second term as president, while throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. President Biden has not been seen in photos or on video since he touched down in Delaware Wednesday night, though he did participate in a phone call with Kamala Harris earlier this evening.
The president’s communications staff and doctor said that the president had tested positive for Covid-19, declaring that it was the reason for the cancellation of his schedule and his change of plans in Las Vegas.
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I am reminded of a news story from 1975. By then Howard Hughes had been out of public sight for so long that a judge announced that if Hughes did not show himself, he would be declared legally dead. A few months later, Hughes was dead. He had to die to prove to everyone he had been alive for all the previous years.
Agreed.
That’s sure as hell what it looks like right now.
Same with my dad, 89. UTI and sepsis, admitted to the hospital on Sunday, checked himself out on Monday, back on Tuesday, died on Wednesday.
I recall a book about how his paranoia and dementia later in life resulted from a series of serious plane crashes he’d had. “Kelly” Johnson recounted having to take over a Lockheed plane Hughes was trying out when he stalled it, apparently intentionally. A test pilot Hughes wasn’t, but he played at being one.
Covid can tax, reduce one’s stamina, energy
If Biden really has Covid (and it is still going around), he should rest a few days and shake the bug. Since he’s not running for re-election, this should be no big problem to do.
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