Joe Biden Was Unfit in 2020
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It is painful but also amusing to watch high-ranking Democrats and media personalities struggle to find culprits for their loss in 2024. Everybody but the Biden family agrees that the fault is Joe Biden ’s for insisting that he possessed sufficient mental acuity and physical strength to seek and serve a second term. But did staffers hide the truth from the world? Did Democratic VIPs on Capitol Hill and elsewhere owe it to the country to say openly that they couldn’t support Mr. Biden’s re-election effort?
The answer to both questions is yes, and some key figures in the administration had a duty, when they realized the extent of the president’s senility, to resign in protest. Resignations are easier to effect in parliamentary systems, in which the member stepping down gets to keep his seat, but they aren’t impossible in America. It wasn’t too much to ask that two or three high-profile Biden officials resign, explain to the public why they could no longer serve in good conscience, and take sinecures at Princeton or Harvard.
What’s amusing is that the only people deceived from 2020 through 2024 were the deceivers. Someone (I forget who) fairly likened the “coverup” to the scene in “The Naked Gun” in which Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) stands in front of a burning fireworks store, its wares exploding in the sky, and tells a crowd of goggling onlookers, “Move on, nothing to see here!”
The argument in the press about when it became clear that Mr. Biden wasn’t up to the job—was it 2023? as early as 2021?—also makes me laugh. I witnessed Mr. Biden’s frailty during the 2020 primary and wrote about it. I was covering the dueling campaigns of Tom Steyer and Mr. Biden. Very few people thought Mr. Biden would win anything but South Carolina, precisely because he appeared too old to govern. The former vice president had come in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire. A win for him in South Carolina seemed likely, but he was losing everywhere else.
Yet owing mainly to the political infeasibility of rivals—Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—Mr. Biden’s win in South Carolina turned the contest on its head and gave him the nomination, and then the presidency.
If I had known all that while bouncing between Steyer and Biden campaign events in South Carolina in February 2020, I would have ignored Mr. Steyer and written exclusively about Mr. Biden’s decrepitude. As it was, I confined the subject to a couple of paragraphs. Going on longer about it felt mean. He was going to lose anyway.
The first time I saw him, in North Charleston, I thought he might be having a stroke or a heart attack. He looked fine, but when he spoke—we’re more familiar with the gravelly whisper now than we were then—he was barely audible. His words slurred together and made no sense. I noted in my report that he several times said “North Carolina” when he meant “North Charleston,” an important thing to get right when trying to win over South Carolina voters. He was ostensibly there to talk about his campaign’s housing plan, but it was obvious he had no idea what the plan was. Also unknown to him were the names of the state lawmakers standing with him.
Later that night, when he was to appear at a rally in a gym at the College of Charleston, he was two hours late, although his campaign bus was parked a short distance away. Two hours is a long time to wait in a gym with no seating. The crowd wasn’t small, maybe 2,000 people. Why didn’t he come out? Count me skeptical that Mr. Biden was detained by important campaign business and not napping in that bus.
Still later that night, he spoke briefly at the state party’s First in the South Dinner (called the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner before the party decided its founders were monsters). Mr. Biden concluded his remarks in a way that should have, but evidently didn’t, make everyone in the room squirm. “My name’s Joe Biden,” he said. “I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden.”
Four years later, none of this seemed revelatory or shocking, so accustomed had Americans become to Mr. Biden’s slurred sentences, nonsense outbursts, falls and blank stares. Yet for four years top Democrats gave themselves fully to the obvious lie that he was fine. In 2023 South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn—whose endorsement helped Mr. Biden secure the state in 2020—had the Democratic National Committee rewrite its primary schedule to give the first vote to South Carolina, the one early state Mr. Biden was almost certain to win. The move was designed to discourage anyone from challenging the president. Only Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips did, in a New Hampshire primary the DNC refused to recognize. Mr. Phillips earned nearly 20% of the Granite State vote. A few officials in Georgia, Iowa and New Hampshire protested Messrs. Biden and Clyburn’s rule-change chicanery, but the party’s top officeholders and their allies in the press said almost nothing about it.
The key datum in that unofficial New Hampshire primary, though, is that Mr. Biden—whose name wasn’t on the ballot and had to be written in—won 63.7% of the vote. A few of the party’s powerbrokers might have snapped the delusion that Joe Biden was ever well enough to serve as president. But the obstinate fact is that a large majority of Democratic voters preferred the delusion, and their leaders saw no reason to upset them.
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It was always obvious.
Donald Trump was unfit in 2015.
Nobody hid Trump's health from the public.
True, his non existent mental health has been on display for a long long time.
Today, Trump posted a conspiracy video on his social media suggesting that the Clintons had numerous people murdered, including JFK Jr.
He is a sick sick man .
Until everyone denounces Trump I dont care what anybody says about Biden.
Short memory?
Doctor: Trump Dictated Letter Attesting To His 'Extraordinary' Health
Do you consider Trump fit for office?
I understand your opinion of Biden. But right now Trump is the PotUS and you have now a very good understanding of what he is going to do with the powers he has been granted.
So is he fit to serve as PotUS?
Morally no. Legally of course. Not one single person that I’ve seen had suggested he shouldn’t be prosecuted for his crimes because he lacked the mental capacity to be held responsible for his actions, unlike Biden,
but again, the scandal isn’t just Biden was a senile old man, it’s the cover up.
Trump is in very good health for his age. No prosecutor ever said his mental problems stood in the way of a possible conviction for criminal activity.
If he is so fit, why does he have his doctors lie about his fitness?
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If he is so fit, why does he have his doctors lie about his fitness?
What does height have to do with fitness? By all means, provide evidence of any of the prosecutor who investigated Trump opining about his mental incapacities and unfitness for trial.
No one is hiding Trump from you. He answers questions and speaks extemporaneously in public all the time. The MSM isn't lying to you about how sharp Trump is behind closed doors. If you can't tell the difference between Trump and Biden's situations, there's not much I can do for you.
Morally and ethically NO.
Legally, he should have been eliminated from consideration due to his attempt to steal the 2020 election. But the legal system with all its warts, and with the cooperation of the SCotUS, never adjudicated that.
Another dimension is demeanor. Trump is NOT presidential.
Another dimension is perspective. Trump does not view the office as a solemn duty and that he is entrusted to do what is best for the nation and its people. He is the opposite and views the powers as something he can use for his own pleasures.
Main dimension however is competence: Trump is clearly incompetent to deal with this office. And unfortunately because he surrounded himself with sycophants this time, nobody is there to help guide him on the right path. This combined with his narcisstic, arrogant, vindictive, stubborn personality makes him wholly unfit for this office.
Trump is a danger to this nation and this will continue until the people stop defending him and stop supporting him.
Seriously?
Obesity is based on weight and height. Does obesity relate to fitness?
You posted this picture for a purpose I imagine. Do you really need a doctor to tell you if someone is obese, or do your eyes work? Are you under the impression Trump avoids cameras to keep his body dimensions secret?
Officially yes. However Trump's doctor posted a false height and weight for Trump so the he would not "officially" be labeled as "morbidly obese".
But it all goes back to your original claim that " Nobody hid Trump's health from the public ". Would you now care to retract that claim???
Still running opinion as fact?
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