Hur’s description of Biden is frightening because it is not meant to be offensive; in fact, it is meant to be kind, but it cannot hide the truth: Biden cannot engage in a debate on any issue because his head is a cocktail shaker of unconnected memories and opinions. It’s reckless to leave someone like that in charge. Remember that chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that, as Hur tells us, the president has no idea of what his opinion about the Middle East is; in fact, I doubt he’s even capable of remembering where the hell it is. “His memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him,” Hur relates.
Those in the Democratic Party don’t want these things to be known. They would rather have a zombie president who is low in the polls in the limelight than a vice president like Kamala Harris, who is even lower in the polls. Their situation is desperate because now they will no longer be able to hide something that all their voters already know. And it is serious, very serious. As Mark Hemingway said yesterday in an amusing column: “Biden is speaking in the present tense about world leaders who died when grunge was still popular, and that’s when he’s capable of speaking at all. Voters can clearly see that mentally, the wheel may be turning, but the hamster is deceased.”
There is also something inhumane about what Kamala Harris and the other Democratic Party leaders are doing to Joe Biden. If he were my grandfather, I would force him out of office to go home and enjoy the family, although I don’t know if bumping into Hunter coming back from a late-night bender is compatible with the verb “enjoy.” But keeping a puppet like Biden on the front lines of the U.S. presidency, besides being a drag on American prosperity, is petty. The only reason they force it on him (admittedly, he doesn’t seem too bothered in office either) is because without him, the Democratic Party would collapse even more than it has already under his presidency.
In the end, Kamala Harris says the report is “gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate.” She lies, as usual. Because the truth is that the only thing “inaccurate and inappropriate” here is Kamala Harris herself. And she is not gratuitous at all. On the contrary, she is very expensive.