Joe Biden was lucky the debate wasn’t taking place at Harlem’s famous Apollo Theater, where the crowd would have beaten him to it and thrown him off the stage.
He was such a terrible person.
Our President is unfit for duty. Forget concerns about how old and infirm he will be after his second term.
He is now a psychopath.
Biden arrived at the debate looking like he’d escaped from a wax museum, spending much of his speech agonizing over his words before pausing, repeatedly mixing up millions and billions and ending one incoherent sentence with, “We finally won Medicare.”
Huh?
The leader of the free world doesn’t seem healthy enough to own a driver’s license or wear clothes like that.
Confused old man
Trump, meanwhile, played firm, criticizing all the major areas where Biden failed, including inflation, the border and the economy.
In an effort to drum up support, he spoke about helping black and Latino citizens and repeatedly highlighted how millions of illegal immigrants pose an economic threat to the poorest Americans.
The former President seemed well prepared and I believe he minimized the danger posed by the abortion issue by emphasizing that states had the power to decide and that whatever restrictions were imposed there must be exceptions relating to the health of the mother.
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Trump appeared to grow enraged at Biden’s insults at various times, but he kept his cool and said nothing to scare voters.
That was his main objective, and he achieved it despite Biden’s obvious goal of trying to get on his nerves.
But conventional scoring does an unfair assessment of what Americans witnessed: a sitting U.S. president in an unprecedented turn of events looking like a confused old man on death’s door.
I say this not out of cruelty or joy, it is simply a fact that the state of the president makes us all anxious.
Biden’s undeniable decline is sure to frighten allies already concerned about America being a declining superpower on a troubled world stage.
Any concerns they had before last night were certainly heightened by the appearance of a weak, emaciated president.
In fact, 10 minutes after the debate began, a committed Democrat texted me saying the election was over, and fuming that Democrats should have blocked Biden from running.
That’s easier said than done, and while many feared Trump would beat him, there was no clear alternative.
Most importantly, as long as Biden wanted to run, there was no effective way to stop him.
The president and First Lady Jill Biden have been adamant that Biden is qualified to run for president and is the only one who can beat Trump.
The question of what to do now seems like a pipe dream, and with Vice President Kamala Harris as president-elect in a position no one in the country wants her to hold, the decision is now inevitable.
The irony, of course, is that Biden called for the fastest debate in modern history to calm a storm swirling within his party about his own eligibility, even as polls showed Trump widening his lead in the national vote and in battleground states and calls for Biden to pass the baton to someone else grew.
He can’t continue
His sudden decision to call for a showdown in May was a gamble that keeping Trump in the position would reassure others in his party.
In addition to the debates, the Biden campaign took the highly unusual step of spending $50 million on television advertising in battleground states in June, a targeted, intensive campaign that typically takes place in the fall as part of a final push.
But Biden didn’t have the luxury of waiting that long according to the usual schedule, nor the poll numbers. He needed to do something to boost his numbers quickly to avoid a dispute over his nomination at the August convention and a major defeat for his party in November.
But that all changed on Thursday: He just couldn’t continue in this condition.
Interestingly, he also used some of the same dirty tricks he used in 2020. Then his campaign helped rally 51 former intelligence officials to sign a letter suggesting that Hunter Biden’s laptop was likely Russian disinformation.
Biden himself called it a “Russian-orchestrated operation” during the second debate with Trump that year, which was a lie because he must have known the Washington Post article was real.
Nevertheless, the lie worked well enough that he was elected.
The campaign has tried to do the same thing this time, getting 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists to sign a letter arguing that Biden’s economic policies are far better than Trump’s.
But as Fox News noted, the same 13 Nobel laureates also signed a 2021 letter endorsing Biden’s economic policies and bold spending plans, just before Biden’s policies fueled the inflation fires, which hit 9.1% and continue to soar.
Fox also noted that the original signatory to both letters was George Akerlof, the wife of Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and a 2001 Nobel Prize winner.
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Given Biden’s performance, this dirty trick seems pathetic — and pointless.
No matter what anyone says or does, they cannot erase the ghostly image the president presented in Atlanta.
The only question now is how the Democrats are going to get him off the stage and give the nomination to someone else. That’s their problem.
The question for us is: Biden will likely remain in office until January. Now that autocrats around the world know the seriousness of his condition, what will happen in the meantime?
