Where Are the Neurological Tests?
President Joe Biden is asking Americans to elect him to serve until he’s 86, despite manifest evidence of physical and mental decline. The cognition coverup can’t continue, and it should be disqualifying if it does, argues editors of the WSJ.
Mr. Biden’s cognitive ability has clearly declined, as he showed in the June 27 debate. The press is also now reporting that there have been many similar episodes behind closed doors. Could it be that an 81-year-old President showing these symptoms was allowed to work, and to campaign for a second term, without a battery of neurological and baseline tests of his mental competence?
No Problem Between 10 and 2
Millions of families have aging relatives, and many face the same difficult conversations and adjustments. Why, wonders the WSJ, has not the leader of the free world opted to prove just how competent he is?
Many White Houses have covered up a President’s ailments—from FDR’s congestive heart failure as he ran for a fourth term, to JFK’s Addison’s disease, to the severity of Donald Trump’s bout with Covid in 2020. But Mr. Biden’s infirmity has now been exposed. It won’t suffice for his physician to repeat, as he said in February, that the President “fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations.”
The White House physician can’t disclose medical information without a patient’s permission, and perhaps Mr. Biden simply refused to take tests for cognition or Parkinson’s or other maladies that might be the cause of his symptoms. But the President is asking Americans to elect him to serve until he’s 86, despite manifest evidence of physical and mental decline. The cognition coverup can’t continue, and it should be disqualifying if it does.
Staying Cogent Vanishing Quickly
In American Greatness, Victor Davis Hanson adds his esteemed two cents on President Joe Biden’s chances of staying cogent for the next five months and winning the election. “Quickly vanishing,” fears VDH.
Even the Biden-inspired, now discredited lawfare campaign against Trump, has not just failed but boomeranged by increasing Trump’s popularity.
And if a stubborn Biden stays on the ticket and more likely loses, he will destroy what is left of the vestigial Democratic Party of the once triangulating Clintons. He will forever discredit the old-boy hierarchy and final obstacle to the full and overt manifestation of a Democrat, woke European-socialist party of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Squad, and the DEI caucuses.
The Current Farce Presses On
There’s a lot more at stake than the presidency, worries VDH. By losing both houses of Congress, Biden will ensure Trump an unobstructed legislative trajectory to implement a complete reversal of the Obama-Biden years.
Will Democrats continue to insult their own toadish media and deny the obvious? That is putting the country’s interest dead last and conniving that Joe can scowl, scold, lie, and yell at his critics—with not a care that our enemies abroad will conclude this is a golden Biden moment to do something stupid that may not come again.