Sadly, it’s now impossible to deny that Joe Biden, the most powerful man in the world, is increasingly loopy – and getting worse, writes FREDDY GRAY | Daily Mail Online
On Monday, Biden followed up with yet another painful senile episode. Celebrating ‘Juneteenth’, the ultra-woke federal holiday he signed into law to celebrate the end of slavery, he appeared to freeze once again, his gaze a million miles away for several awful seconds as people danced around him.
It’s all so awkward. The President has spent three years suffering these humiliations on the world stage and he’s only getting worse. His campaign team often accuse their enemies of manipulating the footage to make him seem more gaga than he is. But there is no denying that Joe gives them plenty of humiliating material with which to work.
Worse, as November 5, the day of the presidential election, draws closer, and his schedule inevitably becomes more gruelling, the President’s decline appears to be fast accelerating at just the wrong time.
As a result, his re-election campaign is getting more and more ugly to watch. He is now experiencing what Shakespeare called the ‘second childishness and mere oblivion’ that accompany a man’s final years.
According to White House doctors, Biden suffers from ‘significant spinal arthritis’, which increasingly impedes his movement. That’s why he wears thick-soled black trainers to assist his mobility. It’s also why Biden’s handlers are desperate to minimise the amount of time the President is seen moving on his own.
His press conferences are tightly stage-managed and the White House now has a PR protocol whereby several of the President’s entourage walk as slowly as they can alongside him as he shuffles glacially across the lawn between the White House and Marine One, the presidential helicopter. The idea is to stop yet more footage of his blatant dodderiness.
Physical handicaps need not detract from great leadership, of course. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in charge when Allied forces stormed those French beaches 80 years ago, had been afflicted by polio and used a wheelchair and today nobody would question his ability to lead.
But Biden’s health struggles appear to be mental, too. He can’t appear in public without looking lost. His childhood stutter, which he managed to overcome as a younger man, seems to have come back with a vengeance in his twilight years. The First Lady now seems effectively to be doubling up as the First Carer, frequently shepherding her confused husband through his public appearances.
I don’t see how Biden running for President this Fall is even possible. If he’s reelected, it would mean an Executive Branch run by a cabal of advisors with no accountability and the inevitable infighting. Susan Rice should run on her own if she wants to play President. My guess is the Dems will get rid of Biden before November because they have to.