{"id":1546858,"date":"2022-07-10T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546858"},"modified":"2022-07-10T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T13:19:27","slug":"ny-times-suddenly-notices-biden-is-incoherent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-suddenly-notices-biden-is-incoherent\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Suddenly Notices Biden Is Incoherent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-suddenly-notices-biden-is-incoherent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The media have been out with a bunch of stories of late that are raising questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/07\/06\/dem-lawmakers-are-blowing-the-whistle-on-biden-and-the-mess-at-the-wh-rudderless-aimless-hopeless-n589569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden and his ability<\/a> to do his job. It\u2019s intriguing that those questions are coming now, prior to the midterms. I thought Democrats would wait until after the midterms for the push against him, but it may be starting early because they are so unhappy with Biden\u2019s performance. Democrats are afraid they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/07\/09\/desperate-dems-in-disarray-outright-worry-over-bidens-leadership-n591794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going to get wiped out in the midterms,<\/a> in some measure because Joe Biden is so bad; he provides no real guidance to the party and doesn\u2019t seem to know how to right the ship of state that he\u2019s left to founder on the rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the New York Times is broaching that third-rail topic \u2014 Joe Biden\u2019s advanced age.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was supposed to go straight from Europe to the Middle East for meetings there. But don\u2019t say he\u2019s going to beg Saudi Arabia for more oil. He gets really mad if you say that.<\/p>\n<p>Now instead, he\u2019s leaving on Tuesday night. In the meantime, he\u2019s back in the U.S. for the weekend and at the beach house for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markknoller\/status\/1545566421693898753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">39th time in his term. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Times take on how he\u2019s now likely to be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/biden-age.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more rested<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And as Mr. Biden insists he plans to run for a second term, his age has increasingly become an uncomfortable issue for him, his team and his party.<\/p>\n<p>Just a year and a half into his first term, Mr. Biden is already more than a year older than Ronald Reagan was at the end of two terms. If he mounts another campaign in 2024, Mr. Biden would be asking the country to elect a leader who would be 86 at the end of his tenure, testing the outer boundaries of age and the presidency. Polls show many Americans consider Mr. Biden too old, and some Democratic strategists do not think he should run again.<\/p>\n<p>It is, unsurprisingly, a sensitive topic in the West Wing. In interviews, some sanctioned by the White House and some not, more than a dozen current and former senior officials and advisers uniformly reported that Mr. Biden remained intellectually engaged, asking smart questions at meetings, grilling aides on points of dispute, calling them late at night, picking out that weak point on Page 14 of a memo and rewriting speeches like his abortion statement on Friday right up until the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>But they acknowledged Mr. Biden looks older than just a few years ago, a political liability that cannot be solved by traditional White House stratagems like staff shake-ups or new communications plans. His energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire. He stumbles over words during public events, and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The third paragraph of the quote is a bunch of malarkey; it\u2019s the last paragraph that\u2019s the money paragraph. They\u2019re holding their breath every time he talks and he can\u2019t take a 10-day work trip, without returning to Delaware to rest and do whatever it is they do to try to enliven him there. Of course, we\u2019ve been saying this since before he got into office. So, why are they suddenly acknowledging this now? And how much trouble are we all in with this man in power?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although White House officials insist they make no special accommodations the way Reagan\u2019s team did, privately they try to guard Mr. Biden\u2019s weekends in Delaware as much as possible. He is generally a five- or five-and-a-half-day-a-week president, although there are times when he is called at any hour regardless of the day. He stays out of public view at night and has taken part in fewer than half as many news conferences or interviews as recent predecessors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stays out of view at night? You mean nappy time and an early lid, say, at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The NY Times acknowledges there have been some issues with Biden and that 64 percent of American voters believe he\u2019s too old to be in the office.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Biden\u2019s public appearances have fueled that perception. His speeches can be flat and listless. He sometimes loses his train of thought, has trouble summoning names or appears momentarily confused. More than once, he has promoted Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her \u201cPresident Harris.\u201d Mr. Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, stumbles over words like \u201ckleptocracy.\u201d He has said Iranian when he meant Ukrainian and several times called Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, \u201cJohn,\u201d confusing him with the late Republican senator of that name from Virginia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Guys, he\u2019s reading the<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/07\/08\/bidens-incoherent-abortion-remarks-include-ron-burgundy-moment-even-xavier-becerra-almost-loses-it-n591210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> teleprompter instructions now,<\/a> without even realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/biden-age.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans pouncing, according to the Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republicans and conservative media gleefully highlight such moments, posting viral videos, sometimes exaggerated or distorted to make Mr. Biden look even worse. But the White House has had to walk back some of his ad-libbed comments, such as when he vowed a military response if China attacks Taiwan or declared that President Vladimir V. Putin \u201ccannot remain in power\u201d in Russia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His people are always trying to keep him away from the press (I think I\u2019ve heard that somewhere) and they\u2019re manic about COVID.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But aides are cautious about exposing him to the coronavirus. Aides are tested once a week and wear colored wristbands on the day of their test; if they plan to attend a meeting with the president on another day, then they must test that morning, too, and wear N95 masks.<\/p>\n<p>The White House seems equally determined to guard Mr. Biden against unscripted interactions with the news media. He has held just 16 news conferences since taking office, less than half as many as Mr. Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush had by this stage and less than a third as many as Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a longtime scholar of presidential media strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Mr. Biden has given just 38 interviews, far fewer than Mr. Trump (116), Mr. Obama (198), the younger Mr. Bush (71), Mr. Clinton (75) and the older Mr. Bush (86). Mr. Biden has been more accessible taking a few questions informally after a speech or other event, which he has done 290 times, compared with 213 by Mr. Trump and 64 by Mr. Obama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times phrased the way that the other leaders treated him at the G-7 as the way people treat a \u201cdistinguished elderly relative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a photo opportunity, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany gently pointed Mr. Biden in the direction of the cameras.\u201d When Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/06\/27\/biden-gets-embarrassed-at-the-g-7-as-his-numbers-tumble-to-lowest-ever-n584922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seemed to have no idea <\/a>what was going on, when all the other leaders did.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line? Even the Times is now laying out what we\u2019ve known for a long time \u2014 that Biden is not up to the job, Biden\u2019s team knows it, and they\u2019re doing all they can to cover.<\/p>\n<p>This has consequences: from the embarrassing \u2014 with world leaders realizing he\u2019s limited when they have to help him \u2014 to the shameful, when he can\u2019t respond to the assassination of a significant world leader like Shinzo Abe for about eight hours after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Some \u2014 like<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/beccalower\/2020\/09\/29\/interview-derek-muller-judge-amy-coney-barrett-n260869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Iowa Law School professor Derek Muller <\/a>\u2014 have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derektmuller\/status\/1545930617602326534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for age limits.<\/a> Maybe. I tend not to like such limits, but we see how much this has been a problem in Congress, and changed from the intent of the founders that Congressional positions were not supposed to be lifetime positions. But in the case of Joe Biden, it\u2019s not just age and incapacity. Joe has been incompetent for decades. Democrats knew this, but they still pushed to have him in this spot because power was more important to them than the safety of our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media have been out with a bunch of stories of late that are raising questions about Joe Biden and his ability to do his job. 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