To the NY Times and David Axelrod: Get On Board or Shut the F*** Up!
With everyone out there challenging Biden about his memory, it seems it is we who have forgotten what the alternative is
Today’s first three articles on the New York Times front page deal with Joe Biden’s age. There is nothing about Trump’s sabotaging of the government by commanding the Republicans to do nothing until “he wins.” There is nothing about how Ukraine is being bled dry because Republicans refuse to approve an aid package.
Here are the articles:
How Old Is Too Old to Be President? An Uncomfortable Question Arises Again.
Inside Biden’s Protective White House
Memory Loss Requires Careful Diagnosis, Scientists Say
The smart-asses at the Times, a newspaper I love, probably think they are doing us a public service by packing this snowball. Along with David Axelrod, the Democratic operative and architect of two Obama victories, they are pushing the snowball up to the top of Right-Wing Mountain. Soon, they will let it roll downhill, and as tends to be the problem with gravity, they will quickly lose control, and the ball will wipe away any chance America has of fending off the fascist revolution a second Trump presidency will bring.
Axelrod and Biden never got along too well when Obama was president. Biden had a penchant for speaking out of turn when he felt Obama was being too timid or slow in making decisions. In a moment of payback, Axelrod now regularly appears on Fox News and plays up the “memory card.”
President Biden has disparaged veteran Democratic political strategist David Axelrod as a “prick” for questioning whether the commander-in-chief should seek a second term — as a spate of polling shows the incumbent losing next year to former President Donald Trump (Biden Rips “Prick”).
Way to go, Joe! I agree. He is a prick who seemingly wants some of your campaign’s money. If he can help, bring him in because he did wonders with Obama. The Biden people should bring him in to shut him up because the right loves seeing him out there trashing Biden.
If you missed the incident that the media is now comparing almost to Nixon’s “What did the president know and when did he know it” dilemma during Watergate, let me catch you up.
A Trump appointee who, as it would turn out, was nothing less than a political hack with a machete determined to inflict wounds on Biden, Robert Hur, was asked by Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into the secret documents found in Biden’s garage. Hur looked into it and informed us that no crimes were committed. Being the piece of sh** Trumpist that he is, however, he decided to add his own personal twist. He informed the world that Biden was a bumbling old man who could barely even recall when his son died.
Almost in tears, Joe Biden immediately addressed the media in an unannounced press conference. He was enraged and questioned the motivations of any human who would dare bring up something as sensitive as the death of his son. Biden pointed to a bracelet he wears that was made from the Rosary his son used to pray every day. It was a moment that could easily have brought tears to the eyes of any normal human.
Still riled and angry, Biden was shortly back out in front of the press speaking about how, after a long conversation with the president of Egypt, a name he picked off the top of his head and one that I still can’t recall, it was agreed that refugees in Gaza could cross into Egypt. Biden made one slip-up, though. He said, “I spoke today with President of Mexico Abdel Fattah El-Sisi,” and then he talked about their agreement.
Since that “gaffe,” the sky has fallen for the media on the right and left. Axelrod has giggled like a schoolboy who broke the wind in a crowded elevator. Here is what I say to anyone who regards this as an example of a failing mind and a stumbling old man: Pull your heads out of your asses and think about what you are doing!
Biden had spent the past week talking 24/7 with his advisors and the media about the bipartisan border bill compromise reached in the Senate. He has been calling on the Republicans to do the right thing for the nation. Many on the right who typically were against Biden have spoken about the bill that could be passed thanks to his leadership as potentially one of the most significant border security bills in a generation — and then, an issue concerning the border and letting immigrants pass arises in between Egypt and Gaza.
Let’s ask how Trump would have communicated any of this. Trump, after all, is in a race against Nancy Pelosi and not Nikki Haley, as we learned recently.
As Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote yesterday in defense of Biden and his memory.
I’ll bet that many readers are similarly vague about the dates of major life events. You remember the circumstances but not necessarily the precise year. And whatever you think of me, I’m pretty sure I don’t write or sound like an old man. The idea that Biden’s difficulty in pinning down the year of his son’s death shows his incapacity — in the middle of the Gaza crisis! — is disgusting.
As it happens, I had an hourlong off-the-record meeting with Biden in August. I can’t talk about the content, but I can assure you that he’s perfectly lucid, with a good grasp of events. And outside of that personal experience, on several occasions when I thought he was making a serious misjudgment — like his handling of the debt ceiling crisis — he was right, and I was wrong (The Disgusting Furor Over Bidene’s Age).
Joe Biden is a president who is involved. He is dealing with a handful of crises that would have sunk many other presidents. His leadership is felt everywhere, and whether you agree with him or not, he leads. His decision to leave Afghanistan was the right one, even though it was highly unpopular because a week later, the Taliban took over. The speed at which they took over shows how futile that struggle was.
Krugman went on to talk about his ailing father.
And my God, consider his opponent. When I listen to Donald Trump’s speeches, I find myself thinking about my father, who died in 2013 (something else I had to look up). During his last year, my father suffered from sundowning: He was lucid during the day but would sometimes become incoherent and aggressive after dark. If we’re going to be doing amateur psychological diagnoses of elderly politicians, shouldn’t we be talking about a candidate who has confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and whose ranting and raving sometimes reminds me of my father on a bad evening (The Disgusting Furor Over Biden’s Age)?
Joe Biden is a human who, like any human, gets tired. His presidency has been one of the best in the past 70 years. He has proven more capable of governing and passing legislation than the other heroes of the Democratic Party, Clinton and Obama, and the bills he regularly, somehow, gets passed has also been consistently bipartisan despite a razor-thin majority that involved the antics of Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, and a Republican Party beholden to Trump.
Joe Biden is a great president, and in his second term, as age will undoubtedly begin to take its toll, Biden will rely more on smart advisors, which is perfectly fine with me.
God Bless Joe Biden, and to hell with everyone daring to mock his so-called verbal gaffes, which they claim are the signs of a failing mind. If only we could be so “with it” at his age while doing the most challenging job in the world.