A truly useful outcome of today’s election would be the recognition by Democrats that Joe Biden is much too old – mentally, if not physically as well – to even be considered as a legitimate candidate for re-election to the presidency.
I didn’t vote for the guy, but even if I had, as I watch him give speeches, make up answers to questions, look lost about how to exit a stage, forget people’s names or even where his son Beau died – in Bethesda, Maryland’s Walter Reed Hospital, by the way, and not in Iraq – it is clear to me that, even if one likes Biden and his politics, the demands and difficulties of the job require that the occupant of the White House be in full possession of his faculties.
The President of the United States must show the American people and the leaders of the world that he has the energy, the enthusiasm, the people skills, the intellect, and the true grit to handle the world’s most difficult job. Perhaps Biden did, twenty years ago or even ten years ago. But not today.