Bob Costas Lashes Out At Democrats For Ignoring Joe Biden's Decline | OutKick
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Amber HardingPublishedJuly 15, 2024 7:20 PM EDT|UpdatedJuly 15, 2024 7:20 PM EDT
Back in February, Bob Costas called for a feeble Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. And now that the rest of the Democrats have caught up with reality, he's wondering what took them so long.
Biden's disastrous debate performance proved that the 81-year-old president is, in fact, not physically or mentally up to the job. So during an appearance on CNN on Monday, Costas reiterated the same facts he'd been spitting for months.
"That one atrocious night was simply writ-large what could be seen for years and years, that he is in serious decline," Costas said. "Nobody should be president when they're 85 or 86, including the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, but this guy is clearly in decline at this point.
"And part of the job, leaving aside whether he can do it for the next four years, is winning the job. And as you just laid out, that seems to be nearly impossible at this point."
Despite mounting pressure from inside the Democratic Party, Biden remains steadfast that he won't drop out of the race.
"Biden had a chance to be seen by history as a statesman and a patriot. He spared the nation a second Trump term, he could have gone out in a gracious fashion," Costas continued. "Now, we can no longer indulge his delusions."
CNN host Michael Smerconish said the calls for Biden to step down wouldn't be so widespread if the first debate of the 2024 election cycle was held in September (as usual), instead of June. But Costas said it never should have come to this in the first place.
"This has been so overwhelmingly obvious for so long," Costas said of Biden's decline. "You don't need a degree in public policy from Harvard to see it and to say it — if you're willing to say it — anymore than you need a degree from MIT to say two plus two is four."
Bob Costas has said for months that Joe Biden needs to step down.
The longtime sports commentator is certainly not a fan of GOP nominee Donald Trump, either. But he blames the Democrats for not being honest about Biden's condition.
"It makes you wonder whether we've been gaslit by the Democrats," Costas said. "The Republicans major in gaslighting everybody with Trump as their standard-bearer, but this had to have been obvious to people surrounding the president, people who observed the president. Wouldn't it have been an act of patriotism, if that's not too overblown a word in this case, to lay that out before the American public?"
If Biden were to win in November, he would be 86 years old at the end of his second term.
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Bob Costas gets it, when will the rest of the folks?
You are correct, Costas.
It isn't rocket science to see Biden's obvious decline.
It makes me wonder how anyone can deny it, though, or pretend Biden is A-OK and capable of serving another term.
He isn't.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that it's denial, delusion and defiance. Denial that any Democrat could lose to Trump. Delusion of their candidates obvious problems. Defiance to the country by placing party over country.
Could very well be, but I have heard many times that it is P, D, and D!!
Yeah me too. But I think Axelrod is probably a better source than where that came from...
Aren't they ALL better?
lol
Now is the time to put to bed the notion that a vote for Biden is patriotic, wise, or saving democracy in any way.
IF what i am reading in the current political opinion pieces today holds true, they wont be replacing Biden on the ticket unless they have to 25th him .
Another funny bit of news i read was snopes weighed in on if trump was hit by a bullet or a piece of teleprompter glass, bullet is true , glass is false by their determination .
So it appears the ballot in Nov will be trump/vance vs biden/ harris unless the 25th is involked .
only way to tell for sure if what i read is true or has any substance , is wait and see what the big money mega donors do .
I don't believe they will replace Biden unless he voluntarily steps down. I don't see much chance, if any, of that occurring.
After telling everyone how sharp Biden is, it sure would make them look bad by employing the 25th and making them look like liars all this time.
I thought it quite a stretch for anyone to claim it was glass in the first place.
Morning Mark...what??...good grief surely they can't have finally sorted themselves out who is doing what, when and how??..
This stuff drives us nuts how on earth do you mob stand it?..such a long drawn out saga that seems to drag on the minute someone is actually elected President..
How much does all this cost? All the campaigns, dramas, sagas hell it's worse than days of our lives..
Hopefully tonight we might get back to the normal news here.. our media needs to be boiled in oil.. thank goodness for the mute button on the TV..
that made me laugh .
reason being is days of our lives is the name of a daytime dramatic soap opera here in the states , or it use to be.
i thought it funny , but politics in the states ARE very comparable to a soap opera that just wastes time .