There are plenty of 82-year-old men who are strong, vital, capable, and competent. My Dad was. Many men (and women) are. People age differently; some people age very well, remaining sharp and capable into the 80s, 90s, and even past the century mark.
Joe Biden is not one of those people. Throughout his presidency, his physical and mental decline was sadly apparent, as were Democrats’ attempts to hide his deterioration from the public. His appearances were carefully managed, and his “interviews” were carefully scripted, until the one unscripted event he couldn’t avoid finally made the decline too obvious to ignore: His one debate with Donald Trump, following which his candidacy had about as much support as a dead polecat on the side of the road. The Democrats dropped old Joe like a hot potato, and he managed to marshal his flagging cognition to destroy the Democrats’ 2024 chances by throwing his endorsement to the one even worse candidate – Vice President Kamala Harris.
Now, it’s becoming more and more obvious what lengths the Biden/Harris administration and national Democrats went to hide this decline.
A new report from The New York Times revealed how President Biden tried and failed to prove his physical vigor to critics constantly calling into question his age and fitness for the job.
For the piece detailing what Biden and his team did to try and minimize the public’s impression that he was a “faltering” president, reporters spoke to people close to Biden who noted that the president wanted to display his physical prowess to combat scrutiny of his age.
“But at times, people familiar with his thinking recalled, Mr. Biden’s pride — along with an old-school view that displaying physical vitality was the antidote to age concerns — could get in the way,” the Friday report disclosed.
This whole debacle was a disgrace – and we must note that the Democrats had every intention of continuing the charade on into a second Biden term, during which – had he lasted – he would have turned 86. If indeed he lasted that long, which seems unlikely.
Imagine where that would have left us.
“Mr. Biden still wanted to prove that he was physically agile,” the report read. “He enjoyed biking at his home near Rehoboth Beach, Del., but during the summer of 2022, when he stopped to talk with a group of onlookers and reporters, his feet got caught in the toe cages on the pedals.”
Biden fell off his bike and reporters caught it on camera. The clip went viral and became fodder for Biden’s critics, who even turned “Mr. Biden’s fall into a political attack on T-shirts,” The Times added.
Then came the “worst mishap,” it continued, pointing to when “Mr. Biden tripped over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy commencement.”
“It took five seconds for Secret Service agents to help the president to his feet, an eternity when seen on television.”
That was a shocking and embarrassing moment, one that Democrats and Frau Doktor Professor Jill Biden – the one person you would think would be the most concerned with old Joe’s health above all things – replied by insisting, “It’s fine, it’s all fine, everything is fine.”
Everything wasn’t fine. Joe Biden’s failures were becoming more and more obvious until that last, unmistakable, undeniable, and utter failure – the debate.
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You can’t polish a cow pie, and you can’t forever present a befuddled, failing old dotard for anything but what he is. The fact that national Democrats and Biden administration personnel tried for so long to do so speaks volumes to the lengths they will go to maintain their grip on power. And the great irony of all this is that Biden is being replaced by the 77-year-old Donald Trump, who is everything Joe Biden is not: Energetic, sharp of wit (and tongue,) focused, determined, and capable.
And, even now, after all that’s happened, they still aren’t talking about it:
The White House did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
You don’t say.
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