| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:What about Ukraine | |
| Posted by: | Mark Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 21/02/24 08:42:00 |
| The only reason you don't want to watch a Biden press conference and would consider it vomit inducing is that would challenge an opinion you have decided on and you don't like your opinions to be challenged by facts. I've had personal experience of family members and friends developing dementia and I am acutely aware of the signs. If you watch Biden in a press conference you will see a man capable of answering unscripted questions in detail without notes at length. This is not something someone with a condition such as Alzeimher's in its early stages would be able to do. That is not to say he is not experiencing some memory loss. I'm far younger than him and you could say the same for me. Even as a much younger man Biden was prone to the occasional gaffe in which he got someone's name wrong. The problem here is that you have formed your views based on social media in which clips of times when he misspeaks are shared endlessly but, like so many others, you refuse to properly analyse the situation for yourself by considering how he performs when speaking at length putting any errors into context. It's already been pointed out to you that Biden's awkward gait is not a sign of decreptitude but a longstanding injury to his knees. He is very physically fit for a man of his age. Of course if there were any actual evidence of a developing condition that made him unfit to serve then he should be removed from office and there are mechanisms in place to ensure this happens. It would be inconceivable that if senior officials were observing a deterioration in his condition they wouldn't raise concerns. All senior Democrats back Biden. Do you not think, if Biden was impaired, a rival candidate for the Democratic nomination would be coming forward and making this public? Biden has been a very successful President delivering econcomic growth that Sunak would die for, increasing employment and real wages during his term, making progress on gun legislation, implementing student debt forgiveness and a whole host of other measures that demonstrate his effectiveness in negotiating the difficulties of getting legislation through the US system. The only blot on his term is the disasterous way the withdrawal from Afghanistan was handled but Trump, who committed the US to withdraw, himself has admitted that this was a poison chalice deliberately left behind. The 'Biden has dementia' lie is one happily propagated by Russian bot farms and will be pushed very heavily in the run up to the election. It will be done to death by MAGA world but it will only be really effective if there are enough useful idiots willing to spread it without taking the trouble to examine the facts. |