Look how enerzzzzzzzzz
There’s nothing to worry about, it’s just that he gets exhausted and needs a lot of sleep.
Questions about Biden’s fitness for office and ability to seek a second term have swirled since his stunningly halting debate performance at last week’s CNN presidential debate.
CNN reported Thursday that Biden privately acknowledged to an ally earlier this week that the next stretch of days are critical as to whether he can save his reelection bid. The White House and campaign have insisted the president is not considering ending his campaign.
Asked about concerns about Biden’s age, top advisers have repeatedly and emphatically cited his aggressive schedules during international travel as examples of his vitality and capacity to do the job at 81.
The president’s new explanation this week that he performed badly at the debate this week because of the grueling foreign travel before the debate – despite having had nearly two weeks back in the states before facing off against Donald Trump – has undercut that argument.
Just a tad!
It will be fine, look how energetic he is, he dashes off to Europe and then comes back again, also he’s wiped and needs a lot of sleep and has to stop working no later than 8 p.m.
It will be fine!
So the presidential election is a choice between two men of advancing decrepitude, each of whom is under the mistaken impression that he is irreplaceable, and neither of whom is willing to subordinate his own needs and desires to the good of his country.
Yes. It’s maddening.
only one of which, however, is eagerly and vocally signaling his desire to DESTROY the country as we know it.
It is a situation so riddled with pathos as to be truly pathotic. I’ll say that again; pathotic. But Biden at least has no ambition to become a dictator, or to follow the example set by Putin. You can’t say that about Donald Duck – I mean Donald Drumpf.
*reads yet another Substack saying that voters don’t really care about the “Democracy is on the Ballot” message*
Biden campaign: “Democracy is on the Ballot, also despite this being basically the only thing we’re running on we’re ignoring all polling saying that Biden being gaga is more than a mere detail.”
*****
Who are the adults supposed to be here?
Brian M, yes of course; the point is not that Biden is as bad as Trump but that he will LOSE to Trump.
Biden will lose because members of his party won’t be able to bring themselves to vote for him, but Trump’s supporters will turn out in droves to vote – “Yes, he’s a narcissistic sociopath with dementia, but he’s ours!” – and the worst man will win for lack of a best man.
That’s the danger.
Kevin Drum raised an interesting point on his blog. He began by expressing some sympathy for the Republicans who don’t like Trump, but nonetheless feel compelled to vote for him. Drum then muses about what it would take for him to vote for the Republican candidate for president (not specifically Trump, just in general).
At least one commenter noted that we aren’t just electing a president, we are electing an administration. The people appointed and hired by the president and those around him matter as much as the president. And they almost always come from one political party, that of the president. Given this, and even absent the aberration that is Trumpism, I cannot conceive of a situation where I’d vote to give the Republican Party the administration. The goals and aims of the Republicans are contrary to what I think is reasonable. I am much more aligned with the positions of the Democratic Party, and would vote to give them the power to create an administration, even if I didn’t care for the candidate.
Trump and his followers have gravely damaged the Republican Party, but I expect there are many Republican voters who nonetheless want their party to be in charge of the administration, and will vote for the Republican candidate, even if that candidate is as awful as Trump.
It is of course the case that the election will not be decided by people like me or that hypothetical Republican who values which party is forming the administration, but rather by people who are open to voting for the other party. Personally, I’d hope that people who might vote Republican can see how terrible the Republicans have become under the influence of Trump and his followers, and they might vote, if not so much for the Democratic Party, at least against Trumpism. But it is more likely voters will vote for or against Biden or Trump, rather than for a party.
If the Democratic Party were to undergo a transformation as macabre as what’s happened to the Republican Party in recent years, maybe I’d vote against them. I still can’t see voting for the Republicans, though.
I voted once for a Republican for a top office, William Weld for Governor of Massachusetts, against the conservative Democratic candidate John Silber. I don’t think I’d make the same choice now.
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