There was news of a sort this weekend about America’s senescent steward, President Joe Biden: Politico Magazine published a remarkable piece by Jonathan Martin titled “Here’s How Biden Can Turn It Around” that opened by admitting that Biden was simply too old either to run for office or to govern properly, before pitching us on how to reelect this man. The paragraph, which caught the eye of most every American political observer this morning, stated:
Well then! The outrageousness of this blunt admission was immediately flagged by Charlie Cooke, who wrote a scathing and proper analysis that didn’t even bother with the rest of the piece, treating Biden’s incapacity to properly execute his official duties — apparently conceded by many if not most inside observers — as simply a failure to meet a basic threshold qualification for the job. I think not bothering with the rest is a mistake, not only because we can trust that Charlie’s argument (though brutally correct) will not stop either Biden or his campaign team, but more importantly because it meant he missed out on the chance to have enormous fun with the so-called recommendations of plugged-in Democrats later in the piece on how to save the campaign.
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