You do understand that no human can be awake and alert 24/7? The need for sleep (whether in one long stretch or shorter and supplemented with naps) is fundamental to all humans.
There is also a gigantic difference between diseases of severe cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer’s, and regular cognitive decline associated with advanced age. People with the former should not be president (and of course I include Reagan here). The latter is significant but far less serious, and doesn’t necessarily impact memory or even the ability to achieve complex mental tasks, though it may limit when and how often.
Most people’s jobs don’t involving managing a 24/7 world.
A president can sleep whenever nothing is scheduled, but must be prepared to be awakened and alert if something happens. What the debate showed is that Biden, on one occasion, did not manage to be both awake and alert (or, better, awake and performing in top form). One instance by itself wouldn’t mean much, but the fact that this was an event that was both important and scheduled well in advance is deeply concerning.
Personally, I suspect it has more to do with his and his team’s denial of his limitations, both format and energy level, than it does his total abilities (since we clearly saw him doing very well this same week). But still, I can’t be alone in thinking “if this is Biden at 81, what will he be like at 84?”
I like the goal post shift. Now there was a reason for him breaking from the group.
But I hear ya, when you say “wanders off” it sure paints him as aimless.
Well done.
Maybe we can stick to the real stuff, it’s important stuff.
Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona has become the second sitting Democrat in Congress to call on President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, according to an interview with The New York Times.
“If he’s the candidate, I’m going to support him, but I think that this is an opportunity to look elsewhere,” Grijalva told the Times. “What he needs to do is shoulder the * responsibility for keeping that seat — and part of that responsibility is to get out of this race.”
This isn’t just about Biden. It affects everybody up for election.
Attacking a source does not make it false. You’re free to prove it wrong. But considering the level of media coverage of the issue it’s not going away.
I answered that in another thread. A Senator or Governor from a state that would benefit from those votes. I think that would be the logical goal of the party.
I thought that would be a bigger story here. I guess not. I had to turn off the news and watch baseball after I saw that. With all the mental effort that posters were going through to blame the performance on a killer cold and DayQuil, Biden rejected that. It was because he was jet lagged by a trip he got back from 2 weeks before and after a week at Camp David. That doesn’t bother anyone?
