There is not one of us who cannot recall slipping, tripping or falling at times. It happens to everyone. But when a sitting United States President does it while caught on camera, it’s a big deal to the media. Especially and only if, the person in question is a Conservative. Presidents Trump and Ford elicited a flurry of debasing comments regarding their ability to walk and chew gum at the same time because of their stumbles. And who knows how many such incidents occurred before every move of our leaders was captured on camera by an official White House photographer to be seen by millions? But the latest in a series of incidents involving President Biden, his tripping three times while clambering up the steps of Air Force One, on his departure from Georgia, should disturb and raise more eyebrows from the media and the entire nation because it was not a singular issue regarding Biden’s increasingly problematical evidences of failing physical and mental capabilities. He’s exhibited many disturbing signs of control problems in both areas over the past year.
The Associated Press’ Jonathan Lemire hit the nail on the head writing: “The matter of a President’s health is of great importance to the American public…It is absolutely harder to make the case when we see videos like this where he’s having momentarily stumbles, momentary lapses, straining for a word.” In his 2020 campaign stops he got into a couple of verbal disputes with members of the audience. In Iowa he lashed out at an attendee with, “You’re a damned liar!” In a Detroit auto plant, he yelled out to a hard-hatted worker, “You’re full of sh-t!” The chief White House physician to former President Barack Obama is worried about the mental health and stamina of Joe Biden, suggesting that “something is not right” with Joe Biden. “The best way I can describe him every time I see him is that he’s just lost,” said former Navy Rear Admiral, Dr. Ronny Jackson. “I won’t make any particular diagnosis about dementia..But what I will say is that something is not right.”
If you watch only CNN, MSNBC or PBS, you will not know of President Biden’s struggles to read and pronounce words from his always present teleprompter. Or his confusing his wife with his sister during a campaign stop. And in Philadelphia, he introduced his granddaughter as his deceased son to a bewildered group of supporters. The media, at this time is protecting the President until the signal is given that it’s time for VP Kamala Harris to take over the reins. Biden has already referred to her, more than once, as “President Harris.” In a recent speech to the nation he proudly announced twice at different intervals, that he that “300 Americans” will soon be inoculated against the Chinese virus. Once is a mistake. Twice, the alarm bell rings.
It troubles us that the powers that oversee our President are covering up for him. He has yet, at this writing, to have an open, unrehearsed press conference. His staff is scrambling, holding off the inevitable announcement that, “President Biden has received problematical medical reports that appear to be serious and at the urging of his family and medical team, has reluctantly decided to step down from his office for treatment of such and to be with his beloved family at home. Vice- President Kamala Harris will be sworn in shortly as President of the United States and will take over such responsibilities that she has been thoroughly prepared for.”
We all knew it was coming. End of story and perhaps much more.
