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'I'm not leaving': Biden expands effort to tamp down calls to step aside
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I don't know why people are looking at both of their performances at a debate when people can look at their performances as presidents.
It's honestly infuriating how everyone is struck on that like it means anything. All presidential debates gave always been awful. This is no exception and this time we have an alternative POV.
You can be a good president by hiding in your office and approving good policy made by your excellent team, but you can't become president by doing those things, especially when you're down. The nominee needs to be able to be coherent in public a lot, doubly so after having what appears to be a very public senior moment. People who have been around old people know that a few good days doesn't mean their loved one is better, it just means they were good days.
You say that as if he has dementia, which he does not. Why can't we accept that maybe the debate was a "bad day"? Why are we pretending it's now the norm for how he behaves?
Has he ever been that, though? I'm pretty sure I've seen him speaking as much as any other president. I mean, the Dark Brandon stuff didn't come out from him sitting behind his desk.
Why are we pretending that Biden is a whole different person than he was even one year ago over this? It's so insidious.
Because it isn't a bad day. It was the standard for any time he isn't in front of a teleprompter.
This is just delusional. Biden has given the least number of news conferences since Reagan. Huh, do you remember what they were covering up with Reagan again?
We're not. Most people just got to see what has been apparent for a while now.