"The Disgusting Furor Over Biden's Age"

martin said:
"When the news broke about the special counsel’s hit job — his snide, unwarranted, obviously politically motivated slurs about President Biden’s memory — I found myself thinking about my mother. What year did she die? It turned out that I didn’t know offhand; I knew that it was after I moved from Princeton to CUNY, because I was regularly commuting out to New Jersey to see her, but before the pandemic. I actually had to look into my records to confirm that she died in 2017.

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 hour-long 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 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.

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 late father on a bad evening?

So to everyone who’s piling on Biden right now, stop and look in the mirror. And ask yourself what you are doing."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/06/opinion/thepoint#krugman-biden-age
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Thanks again marti for providing us with yet another great OP.

 
christiefan915 said:
I wonder why the WH doctor suggested trump take the MoCA in the first place. AFAIK, no other president ever talked about taking the test and it didn't come up with the release of their medical exams.
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Trump asked him to give him one because the armchair doctors on Leftwing media were questioning his cognitive health. Trump wanted to shut them up. Now Biden should do the same thing.....if he can pass one. Do you want to make a bet that Biden will not take one before November?
 
Cypress said:
Being able to tell a giraffe from a monkey tells us nothing about Trump's mental capabilities of carrying out the duties of the president of the United States.

Numerous Republicans who served in Trump's cabinet or on his staff say Trump is a moron with the intelligence of a third grader.
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Well the Biden should avoid taking a cognitive exam after the DOJ refused to prosecute him because he is senile.
 
ExpressLane said:
Trump asked him to give him one because the armchair doctors on Leftwing media were questioning his cognitive health. Trump wanted to shut them up. Now Biden should do the same thing.....if he can pass one. Do you want to make a bet that Biden will not take one before November?
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I don't know that he *hasn't* taken one, and neither do you. Just because trump is all over the media pretending he aced a Mensa entry test doesn't mean Biden has to do the same.

Wanna make a bet that trump won't have a complete neurological work-up before November? Something's wrong with that man's brain and it's getting worse every day.
 
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ExpressLane said:
Sucks to be you then :laugh:
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Nothing funny about a wannabe dictator like Trump. He spent a few days with Orban and talked about his admiration for a ruthless dictator. He sucks up to despots, like Putin and Xi. You must want a new system with Trump in total control. I guess the America experiment will end with Trump and it will please you.
 
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