President Joe Biden is about to become the first-ever octogenarian US president.
On Sunday, the president is expected to mark his 80th birthday shrouded by his family at a brunch in the White House.
Since first launching his campaign for the presidency in April 2019, pundits have been asking Joe Biden, who was already known for his blunders, if he was mentally fit enough for the position of commander in chief, and as the 2024 election looms, those questions are back again, especially in the light of Rep Nancy Pelosi, 82, vowing not to run for minority leader in the new Republican congress, in order to make way for new blood.
That’s on top of ex-President Donald Trump, 76, declaring his third run for the White House.
Among the questions Pelosi’s move raises, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, an authority on political communications at the University of Pennsylvania and said that even if one was highly competent and successful, was there a moment at which one should step aside to give others the chance to lead just as others stepped aside to make it possible to do this.
She said Pelosi’s decision makes such questions more salient in the context of Joe Biden’s statement that he was the bridge to a new generation of leaders.
Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy was forced to admit to a newspaper outlet that the Republicans were victorious in making age a problem in the forthcoming presidential election.
He said that Republicans should be congratulated for continuing to raise an issue that he believed had no grounding in reality but might have a political advantage for Republicans.
However, Murphy added that he still felt that Joe Biden was the guy for right now and he thought generational power shifts were indeed essential, but to him, this was an existential moment for their democracy, and they were literally fighting for democracy’s survival.
In October, Senator Ted Cruz responded to a Joe Biden address that began: ‘Let me start with two words: “Made in America”. The Texas Republican wrote: ‘Two words: dementia’, and last week after arriving in Cambodia, the President committed a gaff within the first seconds of his opening remarks by thanking the Prime Minister of Columbia instead of Cambodia.
Joe Biden is far too old to be a Prime Minister, and you can see that he’s ageing rapidly now, and he walks like a character from the ‘Thunderbirds’.
He was too old the first time he ran and he’s even more geriatric now. But if Joe Biden is too old, then so are Pelosi and Trump, and now experts are saying that even the most mindless Democrat is realising that a semi-vegetable like Joe Biden who confuses Cambodia with Colombia is way past his sell-by date, and anybody who believes that Joe Biden is running the country needs to also check to see if they have dementia as well, and it now seems that the White House is the most costly Assisted Living facility in the world!
Joe Biden is the most senior President to occupy office. Nancy Pelosi will soon turn 83, Mitch McConnel, soon to turn 83, Diane Feinstein, 89 and they all need to go. There also needs to be an age limitation added to the Constitution.
Every enterprise, company or work model around the world respects retirement for logical reasons. However, the most important position with the highest risk of accountable decision-making was vested in an old man who is undoubtedly in rapid cognitive decline.
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