{"id":1968788,"date":"2023-07-10T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-atlantic-turns-on-biden-says-he-has-no-business-running-for-office-step-aside\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:11:16","slug":"the-atlantic-turns-on-biden-says-he-has-no-business-running-for-office-step-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-atlantic-turns-on-biden-says-he-has-no-business-running-for-office-step-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic criticizes Biden, urges him to step aside from running for office."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fthe-atlantic-turns-on-biden-says-he-has-no-business-running-for-office-step-aside%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=1968788&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--><h2>Sputtering Towards 2024: The Atlantic Turns on Biden<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes, when speaking to an octogenarian, you have to repeat yourself several times while raising your voice with each attempt just to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>That appears to be happening in real time, and on a very public stage, with the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/americans-horrified-seeing-biden-looked-beach-fitting-snapshot-america-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> is sputtering towards a 2024 re-election bid, and it appears that his grand strategy from the 2020 general election will be carried over to the sequel \u2014 namely, \u201cLook at me, I\u2019m not Donald Trump!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while that strategy may have carried him to victory the last time around (and could again in 2024, given how deeply divided this country is), at the very least, that messaging is falling on increasingly deaf ears.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Step Aside, Joe Biden<\/h3>\n<p>In a scathing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/07\/biden-2024-reelection-age\/674634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> Friday titled \u201cStep Aside, Joe Biden,\u201d contributor Eliot A. Cohen tore into the president, though not without some sloppy sucking up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-warns-trump-impeachment-could-open-the-door-on-impeaching-former-civil-officers-whose-actions-are-disliked-by-political-opponents\/\" title=\"Blackburn warns Trump impeachment could \u2018open the door\u2019 on impeaching former civil officers whose actions are disliked by political opponents\">current administration<\/a> in the article\u2019s opening lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply grateful to Joe Biden. By defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-swing-state-poll-spells-disaster-joe-biden-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> in 2020, he rescued this country from the continuing misrule of a dangerous grifter and serial liar, a man gripped by vindictiveness, lawlessness, and egomania,\u201d Cohen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy contrast, Biden presented himself, correctly, as a decent, experienced, and entirely normal politician. He may even have saved his country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans owe him a profound debt of respect and appreciation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once you get the bile out of your mouth from reading that last line, consider just how hopelessly far gone this writer is.<\/p>\n<p>Say whatever you want about Joe Biden and his \u201caccomplishments,\u201d but to claim he \u201cmay even have saved his country\u201d is the kind of slobbering fan-fiction you\u2019d expect from teenage \u201cTwilight\u201d fans \u2014 not a <a href=\"https:\/\/sais.jhu.edu\/users\/ecohen1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hopkins professor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yet even this hopelessly delusional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/01\/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history\/514868\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NeverTrumper<\/a> is coming around to the fact that lionizing Biden is simply no longer an option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also has no business running for president at age 80,\u201d Cohen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say that with considerable feeling, being in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-debunking-the-southern-switch\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Debunking The Southern Switch\">late 60s<\/a> and knowing that my 70s are not far off,\u201d he said. \u201cI am as healthy as any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-atlantic-turns-on-biden-says-he-has-no-business-running-for-office-step-aside\/\" title=\"The Atlantic criticizes Biden, urges him to step aside from running for office.\">late-middle-aged person<\/a> (admittedly, I cringe at the word old, which tells you something right there) can be. But I know that at this stage, I do not have the energy I had a decade ago. I forget more things, and if my body does not hurt when I wake up in the morning, a little voice in my head asks whether I am dead and do not yet know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This writer genuinely wonders how often the current president wakes up and wonders if he\u2019s dead, but that\u2019s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>What is here, however, is serious concern about Biden\u2019s ability to function as president.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been fair to describe him as something of a husk of a politician when he first became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a> nearly 15 years ago. Tacking on another 5,284 days simply doesn\u2019t help that perception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClinging to office in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-biden-takes-nasty-fall-air-force-academy-graduation-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">old age<\/a> is selfish, too,\u201d Cohen wrote. You\u2019d be excused if you were unsure whether he was speaking of Biden in 2023 or Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>But as in that case, there appears to be a growing sentiment, even among Biden\u2019s staunchest supporters, that the president needs to move aside.<\/p>\n<p>Look, whether you think Biden has been a spectacular president or an utter failure of one, facts are facts. Should he win re-election, he will be 86 years old at the end of his second term, and that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-poll-spells-doom-for-joe-biden-one-major-roadblock-is-standing-in-his-way\/\" title=\"NBC Poll Spells Trouble for Biden - One Major Obstacle Hinders His Progress\">literally uncharted territory<\/a> in the grand experiment that has been American politics.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t blame his most ardent supporters (or sycophants, in the case of Cohen) for expressing doubt and consternation about his ability to lead.<\/p>\n<p>And no, even Cohen conceded that Kamala Harris is simply not the answer should Biden not be able to function as president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 but seemingly not the political skills and heft to be a compelling presidential candidate, is a weak backfill,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cMoreover, if history is any guide, an ailing, declining president does not simply say, \u2018You\u2019re right, Doc, time for me to hand over the reins to the veep.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and others have done, they delay and deny, aided and abetted by families and close advisers who refuse to accept reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So. His VP is no good, he\u2019s rapidly losing the faith of the liberal establishment and, due to the way in which time functions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senior-citizens-bidens-hometown-turning-know-exactly-happens-age-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he\u2019s only getting older<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It truly feels like Republicans would have to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for Biden to win re-election, given how this is all going for him right now.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/atlantic-turns-biden-says-no-business-running-office-step-aside\/\">The Atlantic Turns on Biden, Says He Has No Business Running for Office: &#8216;Step Aside&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it seems like he needs to constantly repeat himself and raise his voice to be heard, just like when speaking to an elderly person. This is happening in real time and on a public stage, as the president of the United States. Joe Biden&#8217;s path towards a 2024 re-election bid seems uncertain and shaky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1968789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}