Biden: Hide the (Cognitive) Decline

Dubbed “Slow Joe” or “Sundown Joe,” there’s been an awful lot of discussion of Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.

One or two senior moments on the campaign trail wouldn’t have hurt him (mainly because of the (D) after his name). But it’s not one or two a campaign, it’s one or two an appearance, it’s mistakes seguing into non-sequiturs seguing into a buffet of word salads.

  • “Biden’s handlers limited his exposure to speaking for a few minutes at each event.”
  • Chance the Gardener for President.

    But Joe, despite his diminishing mental competence that leads him to make increasingly bizarre statements, some of which make little or no sense, is not quite Chauncey Gardener.

    The original Chance was a sweet innocent. Biden always was an ambitious type with a dubious past. He has been a repeat plagiarist, even in law school.

    Nevertheless, something cruel, even sadistic, emanates from the nomination of someone either over or on the edge of senility. Considering how Joe is now, think how he will be in two or three years in the midst of his presidency.

    The potential for public humiliation is high, as is the necessity to surround him with “advisors” to prop him up to avoid catastrophe.

    But that may be the point. A particularly mediocre group of candidates failed, but will get a second chance.

    Some are asking how the likes of Corey Booker and Kamala Harris—both of whom had absolutely terrible things to say about Biden during the debates; Harris even implied he was a bigot—suddenly are lining up behind Joe as if he were the man anointed to unite a ruptured America.

    Part of this is undoubtedly that they sense a vacuum to be filled. Nobody’s home. There’s no “there” in “Being There” and someone—Booker, Harris, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, any of a number of people—will be calling the shots in reality from behind the scenes.

    (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

  • Last year in a debate, Biden claimed that “my deceased wife is a teacher,” conflating Neilia Hunter Biden, who died tragically young from a car accident at age 30 in 1972 and wasn’t (as far as I can determine) a teacher, with his very-much-still-living second wife Jill Jacobs Biden, who is a teacher.
  • And there’s just no shortage of video evidence out there:

  • This was just yesterday:

  • If Biden is bad now, what is he going to be like three years from now?

    • But the corrupt wing of the Democratic Party seems intent on denying Bernie Sanders the nomination at any cost, and Joe Biden is the vehicle they’ve chosen to do it. They also seem to feel that Biden’s cognitive decline won’t be an issue once in office, as they’ll have their own hand-picked people in the veep spot and important cabinet positions. But that assumes President Donald Trump won’t shred Biden in the general, that they can somehow keep Trump from ripping into Biden’s obvious declining faculties. Dangerous assumptions all around…

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