George Will savages Joe Biden in the Washington Post:
Meeting recently with some progressive activists, Biden said his $426 billion student loan forgiveness was accomplished by “a law” that he had “just signed”: “I got it passed by a vote or two.” No. He. Did. Not.
Biden was not merely again embellishing his achievements. This is not just another of his verbal fender benders. There is no less-than-dismaying explanation for his complete confusion. What vote? Who voted?
Will’s conclusion is that Biden is senile:
It is frightening that Biden does not know, or remember, what he recently did regarding an immensely important policy. He must be presumed susceptible to future episodes of similar bewilderment.
That’s one possibility. The other is that Joe Biden is a pathological liar.
There is no third option.
I am habitually soft on politicians who make verbal mistakes. They travel constantly, and talk incessantly, and are bound at some point to forget which city they’re in or say “57 states” or what you will. But, as Will points out, Biden says flatly untrue things so often now that one can only conclude that “even adequacy is in his past.”
Alternatively, one can conclude that Biden is a stone-cold liar. But one has to pick one of those two: Senile, or fabulist. Choose.