Quote:Many people believe that Joe Biden has been showing signs of cognitive decline for some time and he did not do himself any favors in dispelling those rumors recently.
He made his way to Louisiana on Friday to tour the damage done by Hurricane Ida and he made news when he brought some help along with him, The New York Post reported.
After Air Force One touched down in New Orleans, Biden received a briefing on recovery efforts and inspected wreckage in the western suburbs of Reserve and LaPlace
The tarmac welcome party at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport included Democratic Gov. John Edwards and Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat, also welcomed Biden.
But it was what was noticed next that had The Post, and others, in a state of disbelief.
“Biden walked to the Marine One helicopter with a cheat sheet of officials’ names and photos, including those of Cantrell and Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng sticking out of his pants pocket. He also appeared to have a script in his pocket,” The Post said.
Biden was absolutely hammered for it, Fox News reported.
“Can Joe Biden do anything without a cheat sheet? He couldn’t give a speech on Afghanistan after 5 PM,” Lisa Boothe, a Fox News contributor, said. “It’s abundantly clear he’s not operating on full cylinders. He should be in retirement, not leading a country. It’s time we start talking about it more. Everyone sees it.”
“President Trump certainly never carried a ‘cheat sheet’ with him,” Kayleigh McEnany, who served as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, said. “As any good staff would, we often provided him with a pocket card before he left the plane, but he usually just left it on Air Force 1 and definitely never relied on it to remember the names of those he was meeting on the tarmac.”
“Given his track record of hiding in his basement during the presidential election, it’s not surprising that President Biden depends on cheat sheets,” Deneen Borelli, another Fox News contributor, said. “Biden is lost and fumbles badly without notes and the teleprompter. It’s fundamentally dangerous the U.S. has such a weak and incompetent president. The world is watching including our adversaries.
“Then-candidate Biden wasn’t challenged by the media and when interviewed was given softball questions. Now America knows why his handlers want him to have limited media access because he’s incapable of sensible communication,” he said.
Biden did go on to talk about the storm damage and managed to fit in his campaign slogan “build back better.”
“My message today is, I think what we’re all seeing — and I’m getting the same response from my Republican friends here that are in the Congress — is there’s nothing political about this. This is simply about saving lives, getting people back up and running. And we’re in this together,” Biden said.
“I promise we’re gonna have your back until this thing gets done. And so, I’m mainly here to listen to see what’s on your mind,” he said.
But would he be the career politician that he is if he did not use a tragedy to promote his own goals, like passing his infrastructure plan?
“I walk through the backyards here — so many telephone lines are down, so many telephone poles are down, so many of the — of the way in which we transmit energy is lost because of the old wooden telephone pole,” he said.
“We know for a fact if they’re underground they are secure. It costs more money. We’ve got to not just build back to what it was with the same old poles up. We got to build back better. We got to build back more resiliently,” he said.
He has a point, but some may argue that the responsibility of doing that should be on the utility companies that rake in billions of dollars and not on the taxpayers.
Quote:Joe Biden is trying to flip the script away from the disaster of Afghanistan by traveling to Louisiana to see Hurricane Ida damage.
But his issues still follow him. We’ve seen in the past how he’s had difficulty remembering who is who. Listen here at :58 when in March, he refers to the leader of Afghanistan as “Kayani.” The leader of Afghanistan was Ashraf Ghani. He appears to confuse him with the controversial former chief of Pakistan’s army, the retired General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
“He is the leader, quote, in Afghanistan and Kabul,” Biden said. Maybe that’s why he had such trouble in Afghanistan when he didn’t even know who the president is and doesn’t even accord him his title. As we reported, not only did he make that mistake, but then the White House seemed to stealth edit it out of the transcript of what he said.
To avoid having anything like that happen in Louisiana, his people prepared him “cheat sheets” with the pictures of the local officials with whom he was going to meet — what their names and titles were. Except Biden got busted with the cheat sheets because he kept them sticking out of his back pocket.
From Fox News:
On the notes that were photographed in Biden’s back pocket, the names of Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell could be seen.
“Can Joe Biden do anything without a cheat sheet? He couldn’t give a speech on Afghanistan after 5 PM,” said Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe. “It’s abundantly clear he’s not operating on full cylinders. He should be in retirement, not leading a country. It’s time we start talking about it more. Everyone sees it.”
This isn’t the first time Biden has been busted with cheat sheets. He’s used them multiple times including during his first formal press conference back in March when he not only had the faces and names of the reporters that he sees all the time there on the sheet to remind him, but the numbers indicating when he was supposed to call on them next to their names.
“Given his track record of hiding in his basement during the presidential election, it’s not surprising that President Biden depends on cheat sheets,” Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli said about the controversy. “Biden is lost and fumbles badly without notes and the teleprompter. It’s fundamentally dangerous the U.S. has such a weak and incompetent president. The world is watching including our adversaries.
Borelli added, “Then-candidate Biden wasn’t challenged by the media and when interviewed was given softball questions. Now America knows why his handlers want him to have limited media access because he’s incapable of sensible communication.”
The problem isn’t in having notes — the problem is that he can’t seem to operate without them and that even with them, he makes embarrassing errors like misidentifying the president of Afghanistan. More than that, as we’ve seen, that underlies a greater inability to deal normally with critical issues that he has to deal with. That’s how we get things like the Afghanistan debacle. Remove the notes and what you’d have would be a confused Biden just looking off into space, not knowing what to do or say.
I will openly lay the question out point blank for all who post here: is there ANYONE who honestly believes Biden* is NOT impacted with dementia/Alzheimer's? Anyone at all?
He clearly does have it, so hopefully no one actually argues otherwise. It is frankly EMBARRASSING to see Biden* just mumble and stumble through his scripted responses day after day.....or shouting in near anger like he did about withdrawing from Afghanistan....have lids called with zero notice....rely on ZOOM calls instead of face-to-face visits with his foreign counterparts.....run home at mid week to Delaware or Camp David for "vacation". I can only imagine what goes on out of the public view and the various extra precautions the Secret Service and his inner circle must go through to manage him as he sinks deeper into his dementia.
I have said this before - I think his doctors HAVE given him the cognitive test and it confirms what we all KNOW is the reality; but they are not releasing it to the public...yet.
Dr. Jill can end this very quickly but she just loves the perks and prestige of being the First Lady too much.
No one will laugh if he steps down voluntarily. I certainly won't, I'll applaud him for doing the RIGHT THING. Most citizens - regardless of party - certainly recognize this immense problem and probably wish he would resign and get the professional care that he desperately needs.
(09-05-2021 01:32 PM)boss man Wrote: I will openly lay the question out point blank for all who post here: is there ANYONE who honestly believes Biden* is NOT impacted with dementia/Alzheimer's? Anyone at all?
He clearly does have it, so hopefully no one actually argues otherwise. It is frankly EMBARRASSING to see Biden* just mumble and stumble through his scripted responses day after day.....or shouting in near anger like he did about withdrawing from Afghanistan....have lids called with zero notice....rely on ZOOM calls instead of face-to-face visits with his foreign counterparts.....run home at mid week to Delaware or Camp David for "vacation". I can only imagine what goes on out of the public view and the various extra precautions the Secret Service and his inner circle must go through to manage him as he sinks deeper into his dementia.
I have said this before - I think his doctors HAVE given him the cognitive test and it confirms what we all KNOW is the reality; but they are not releasing it to the public...yet.
Dr. Jill can end this very quickly but she just loves the perks and prestige of being the First Lady too much.
No one will laugh if he steps down voluntarily. I certainly won't, I'll applaud him for doing the RIGHT THING. Most citizens - regardless of party - certainly recognize this immense problem and probably wish he would resign and get the professional care that he desperately needs.
What ticks me off is OUR media totally covers for him. The purpose of the media is to work for the people to keep tabs on our government. That has all gone out of the window. In my opinion, this will be the most important strike that ends our society. The media should be skeptical of EVERYTHING the media does. Instead they now are literally the propaganda arm of the Democrat party and thus the current power of Government. We don't know what we don't know. The weakness of our country is very evident to our enemies both known and unknown. And what's worse is it is also evident our military members no longer respect or Commanders at the top.
(09-05-2021 01:32 PM)boss man Wrote: I will openly lay the question out point blank for all who post here: is there ANYONE who honestly believes Biden* is NOT impacted with dementia/Alzheimer's? Anyone at all?
He clearly does have it, so hopefully no one actually argues otherwise. It is frankly EMBARRASSING to see Biden* just mumble and stumble through his scripted responses day after day.....or shouting in near anger like he did about withdrawing from Afghanistan....have lids called with zero notice....rely on ZOOM calls instead of face-to-face visits with his foreign counterparts.....run home at mid week to Delaware or Camp David for "vacation". I can only imagine what goes on out of the public view and the various extra precautions the Secret Service and his inner circle must go through to manage him as he sinks deeper into his dementia.
I have said this before - I think his doctors HAVE given him the cognitive test and it confirms what we all KNOW is the reality; but they are not releasing it to the public...yet.
Dr. Jill can end this very quickly but she just loves the perks and prestige of being the First Lady too much.
No one will laugh if he steps down voluntarily. I certainly won't, I'll applaud him for doing the RIGHT THING. Most citizens - regardless of party - certainly recognize this immense problem and probably wish he would resign and get the professional care that he desperately needs.
I would actually respect him if he did that. I'm not betting the farm on it happening.
(09-05-2021 01:32 PM)boss man Wrote: I will openly lay the question out point blank for all who post here: is there ANYONE who honestly believes Biden* is NOT impacted with dementia/Alzheimer's? Anyone at all?
He clearly does have it, so hopefully no one actually argues otherwise. It is frankly EMBARRASSING to see Biden* just mumble and stumble through his scripted responses day after day.....or shouting in near anger like he did about withdrawing from Afghanistan....have lids called with zero notice....rely on ZOOM calls instead of face-to-face visits with his foreign counterparts.....run home at mid week to Delaware or Camp David for "vacation". I can only imagine what goes on out of the public view and the various extra precautions the Secret Service and his inner circle must go through to manage him as he sinks deeper into his dementia.
I have said this before - I think his doctors HAVE given him the cognitive test and it confirms what we all KNOW is the reality; but they are not releasing it to the public...yet.
Dr. Jill can end this very quickly but she just loves the perks and prestige of being the First Lady too much.
No one will laugh if he steps down voluntarily. I certainly won't, I'll applaud him for doing the RIGHT THING. Most citizens - regardless of party - certainly recognize this immense problem and probably wish he would resign and get the professional care that he desperately needs.
(09-05-2021 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Problem is, I'd rather have mumbling, bumbling, demented Biden than any form of Harris. And God help us whom she would pick to be the replacement VP.
I bet the U.S. citizens being held hostage in Afghanistan right now wish someone else was the President.
Owl, this mentally deficient idiot must be removed from office.
Harris can be controlled including who she picks as VP. Biden* is a threat to this country, he's go to be removed.
(09-05-2021 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: Problem is, I'd rather have mumbling, bumbling, demented Biden than any form of Harris. And God help us whom she would pick to be the replacement VP.
I bet the U.S. citizens being held hostage in Afghanistan right now wish someone else was the President.