I note that the headline on an NPR article about a new book on the last Presidential election has this headline:
Biden's closest advisers were in 'denial' about his decline, 'Uncharted' author says
But in the body of the interview, the author seems to make the case that the decline was in stamina only, and nothing to do with mental ability when sufficiently rested:
As the 2024 campaign kicked into gear, the president couldn't hide from public scrutiny, Whipple says. He notes that in the days leading up to his disastrous debate with President Trump, Biden "was in a terrible state."
"He was absolutely exhausted. He was unable really to follow what was happening in the campaign. He was tuned out," Whipple says. "Early on, he walked out of a [debate preparation] session in the Aspen Lodge, the president's cabin, went over to the pool, sank into a lounge chair, and just fell sound asleep."
OK, but then further down:
On why Biden's staffers believed he could still govern
I think that this is much more interesting and not nearly as simple as the notion of a cover-up. In other words, I am convinced that Joe Biden's inner circle was convinced that Joe Biden was capable of governing, and they believed that he could do it for another four years. And we can't dismiss the fact that Biden on the very last day, July 21st, that Sunday when his aides came to hammer out his abdication statement, Joe Biden was on the phone parsing the details of a complex multi-nation prisoner swap. He was on top of every detail.
People who visited Biden in the Oval Office to talk about the Middle East said he was on top of every nuance of Middle Eastern policy. ... Joe Biden, behind closed doors, was governing, capably, whether you liked his policies or not. So there's no question that he was a shadow of the campaigner that he once was, and that was true from 2020 all the way to the end. But, you can't dismiss the fact — it's an inconvenient fact for people who say it was a cover-up — that Biden was capable.
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"But in the body of the interview, the author seems to make the case that the decline was in stamina only, and nothing to do with mental ability when sufficiently rested:"
That is a hopeless and desperate rationalization. Even in the 2020 election I was warning people Biden showed evidence of cognitive decline.
Lack of stamina mirrors a testing protocol to unmask neurologic issues, the dual challenge effect, a useful test for concussion.
How convenient that "behind closed doors" he was fully cognizant but in public he was falling over, his speech had slowed very noticeably from a decade ago, and he struggled to find the right words.
Maybe I don't trust your judgement made through the TV, John?
Your judgement is to be trusted by people close to Biden with vested interests? It isn't just my judgement, many people were stating it. Why was he dropped so late in the campaign by the Dems? They knew the gig was up, that they could no longer hide the decline.
It was a bad mishap in the debate performance. That's all I concede. So sue me. :)
My other concern was that he had started to walk stiffly and looked to me a lot like in the manner of a Parkinson's sufferer, which would indeed be disqualifying in my view. The mistake was in not being on the front foot in explaining that he wasn't suffering from that. (I am assuming that if it was the case of a diagnosis that had been hidden, we would know it by now.)
He wasn’t Biden you retards. He was just a senile actor playing Biden. Biden has been dead a long time. It’s not like this is powerfully difficult to check.
This was a form of elder abuse. Almost in the same manner as with the Stephen Hawking gimps. There they would toss a retard off a cliff and wheel the next cripple in.
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