Bless Joe Biden’s heart. People, me included, have been giving him a hard time about being confused. They say he’s senile, and not capable of running for president.
I’ve been thinking about this. Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. Maybe he and I have things in common.
I’ll be honest. I haven’t cared much for Joe Biden since his first run for president in 1988. That’s when he was reminded that he plagiarized a law review article as a first-year law student. He apologized, claiming he didn’t understand the need to cite sources. Shortly after that apology, he lifted UK politician Neil Kinnock’s biography for a campaign speech, claiming it as his own.
He's done similar things throughout his career, at times claiming he graduated at the top of his law school class. He has said he marched with Martin Luther King in Alabama. Think maybe he got Dr. King mixed up with Corn Pop?
Now, he gets confused when he talks. Lots of people do that. Who hasn’t lost track of the day of the week, and said you went to the doctor on Tuesday when the appointment was Wednesday? That’s normal. Most people I know get their days mixed up sometime. I know I do, or that’s what I tell our publisher when she calls me about a deadline.
A few months ago, the President claimed to have talked recently with French President Mitterrand. According to his headstone, Mitterrand passed away in 1996. Maybe he meant President Macron. Seriously, Macron/Mitterrand. They both start with M.
He also mentioned having a conversation with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a 2021 meeting. Kohl wasn’t there. New reports say he died in 2017. Maybe the reports of his death were exaggerated.
I can sympathize with Mr. Biden. I was leaving a Christmas party once when the girl I was with said, “Don’t tell anyone you met my dad. He’s supposed to be dead.”
Maybe Messrs. Kohl and Mitterrand were just faking it, like Elvis and Michael Jackson.
They tell me he uses note cards with names and pictures of reporters to call on during press conferences. There are even photos of times he turned the printed side to the audience. These cards supposedly have the questions and answers for him already typed up and even tell him when to sit down.
Boy, I can think of lots of times I could have used a “sit down” reminder.
They say he gets lost during public appearances. I did that on stage once.
We were doing “Jekyll and Hyde” and I played the Bishop of Basingstoke. Just before Jekyll beat, stabbed me, and set me on fire to end Act I he slung me ten feet across the stage into a wrought iron bench. One night my head hit the bench. Thank goodness I didn’t have to stand up until the curtain dropped. All I had to do was get slung around and pray Jekyll didn’t smack me with his cane.
Maybe Joe got smacked with a park bench before he wandered away at the D-Day observance in France last month. It made me goofy. Maybe that’s what got him.
After all, this is the man who mobilized trunalimunumaprzure during the 2020 campaign. And less than two weeks ago he told us he beat Medicare.
I mean, isn’t this the guy you want to run your country? In all honesty, no.
Arguments that President Biden is mentally competent to perform the most demanding job in the free world are ludicrous. He is obviously not.
He has served his state and his country for more than a half century. He should be allowed to go home to Delaware, sit on the porch, enjoy his morning coffee and a swim in the pool for as long as he can. He needs to go home. He doesn’t need to be president.
