Bedtime For Biden
Is 80 old?
The correct answer is: It depends.
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz continues to offer sharp, insightful legal analysis. He also writes books. He comes across as smart and nimble when interviewed on television or radio.
He’s 84.
Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, who once said the secret to staying young was to get up every day and “Don’t let the old man in,” continues to direct and act in movies at 93.
Harrison Ford, who stars in the latest Indiana Jones film, is still churning out Hollywood action hits at 80.
Then there’s Joe Biden.
At 80 he seems a generation older than the above-mentioned gentlemen. He wanders aimlessly around stages unless someone grabs his elbow and guides him in the right direction, he falls with troubling regularity. He regularly loses his train of thought and spouts gibberish, doesn’t know how many grandchildren he has and when he arrived in Lithuania for the NATO summit on Tuesday, he skipped the opening dinner because he had to get to bed.
Despite his jarring habit of screaming and then whispering in speeches, Biden projects American weakness.
Suddenly, the left is noticing.
“Why Biden Shouldn’t Run in the Next Election,” Atlantic Monthly.
The why: He’s too old.
Then there’s this, from Politico:
“Senior Democrats’ Private Take on Biden: He’s Too Old.”
Shoot, Maureen Dowd even dinged the president in her Saturday New York Times column headlined, “It’s Seven Grandchildren, Mr. President.”
But you know things are critical when two of Biden’s biggest lickspittles, Mika and Joe, take notice. Naturally, they don’t blame the doddering man in the White House for looking like a grandpa on a day pass from the nursing home.
Mika Brzezinski SCOLDS Biden’s staff: “Do a better job because you can’t have these video images of the president tripping or the president like going to wrong way…his age is going to be factor… It makes me mad!”
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 12, 2023
There’s only so much his staff can do.
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The knots these two twist themselves into to defend their geriatric hero. They blame his aides for not carrying him around on a stretcher. Or installing an escalator on Air Force One. Or giving him a guide dog…
GOP hopeful, Nikki Haley, makes the scariest age-related argument against a Biden second term: The specter of a President Kamala Harris.
No one, outside of Harris’ husband, wants that. Yet re-electing an 82-year-old means rolling the dice that he will die in office and our national embarrassment - Harris - will become president.
Sorry, Dems. Learn a lesson.
This is what happens when you check boxes instead of actually picking qualified candidates for top jobs. How does Biden now dump the woman of color from his ticket without being called a racist?
This is the left’s mess. It’ll be fun seeing how long it takes them to convince Biden not to run.
Warning: One of the signs of senility is extreme stubbornness. What if Biden refuses to go away?
Which brings us to a critical question.
Is 82 too old to be president?
It’s tempting to say it Depends.
