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A Parkinson’s disease specialist (who's a Democrat) told NBC that Biden clearly has the disease.
He didn't do as badly as he might have at the Nato press conference last night.
He introduced Zelensky as Putin and referred to Kamala as Vice-president Trump but we expect things like that.
They are the mistakes anyone might make. They don't show he has dementia, but in the context of the debate with Trump they looked very bad.
He was 45 minutes late, of course used a teleprompter for his opening speech, answered or failed to answer softball questions, made a mess of what he wanted to say in places, but all this is normal for him.
President Ford made similar slip ups, but much less often.
Vice-president Dan Quayle too, but he was a halfwit.
The point is that the media has (inevitably) decided that the impending fall of the House of Biden is the story.
Ian Bremmer, who attended the summit, said none of the leaders he encountered "think he [Biden] can serve another four years."
George Stephanopoulos, who interviewed him last week, told a passer-by in the street who asked him that he doesn’t think Joe Biden can serve four more years.
Here is Biden to NATO earlier this week: ‘The allies in this room... Not only share a common language... DON’T share a common language... We do... Not share a common border... But we are neighbours...’
In the 2020 Democratic primary debates, Julián Castro and Cory Booker mocked Biden for his inability to remember things, and pointed out his cognitive decline. That was four years ago. But now the media are shocked, shocked.
Glenn Greenwald says it well:
'It's been incredibly creepy watching every liberal media figure mindlessly recite: "Biden is a good, decent man of high values. But what evidence is there for that? The many wars he cheerlead? The addicts he threw in jail until his son become one? The pathological lying?"'
I agree - he finances what seems a pointless slaughter of tens of thousands of Arab civilians intended to keep Netanyahu out of prison, he provoked Putin to invade Ukraine, he is accused of rape and of unpleasant attentions to his own daughter.
That's before we speak of influence peddling.
And I completely agree with this tweet by Glenn Greenwald three days ago: 'Democrats slowly coming to terms with the fact that Biden is a full-scale narcissist who has shown throughout his adult life that the only thing he cares about is chasing power and titles, and there's no way someone like that would give that up voluntarily.'
He took questions for almost an hour, on several occasions speaking fluently and lucidly about matters of immense geopolitical complexity, on the rise of China and Russia’s specific role within it. It was arguably more impressive than his opponent’s recent exposition on the relative merits of death by shark attack or electrocution by battery-powered boat.
ReplyDeleteBut also, well, he was asked if Kamala Harris, his vice-president, was qualified to be president, and he said the following: “I wouldn’t have picked vice-president Trump to be vice-president, if she’s not qualified to be president.”
And so that will surely be that. So long, Mr President. As the late Edward Murrow liked to say and George Clooney kind of plagiarised, good night and good luck.
Tom Peck in the Times https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/reaction-biden-press-conference-analysis-hlv38gp0r
Fact checking Biden. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/fact-check-biden-press-conference/
ReplyDelete'Republicans slowly coming to terms with the fact that Trump is a full-scale narcissist who has shown throughout his adult life that the only thing he cares about is chasing power and titles, and there's no way someone like that would give that up voluntarily.'
ReplyDeleteFixed that for you.
My 83 year old aunt has Parkinson's. Her hands shake to the point that she cannot pour herself a glass of water and she cannot cook but the most basic things. She can't separate eggyolk from eggwhite for example. It's difficult for her even to cut her meat in the plate. Additionally she has the very crooked spine typical to advanced Parkinson's. The onset of the disease dates so long in the past that I cannot even remember. Maybe 20 years or more.
ReplyDeleteBut she has absolutely no dementia symptom, she's as sharp as she's always been. She's articulate, she does not slur her speech.
Pope John Paul II had it too. His spine was crooked, his hands shook, his speech seemed impaired towards the end but he never seemed senile, never rambled, never seemed lost.
So I very much doubt that Joe Biden have Parkinson's.