Not All of Them Are Zombies Like Biden
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I agree with this. Age makes you more susceptible have…stuff but it really is case in case. Watch them use the age thing on Trump (if they already haven’t)…
It’s curious to see that all they could find after Biden’s annual health check was…sleep apnea and reflux…really? But praise the Lord his Vitamin D levels are normal- the country is in good hands then!
Evil causes the brain to shrink. Scientists see this every day. Why can’t the politicians? Like a sonogram of a pre-born child.
The Dems like to forget that their party was the only one to have two documented mentally incapacitated Presidents carry on with their term – Wilson & Roosevelt.
History usually records this as “brave” or “necessary” because of war. How will history frame the sleepwalking time of Joe Biden?
Strong, courageous octogenarians are the exception, not the rule. Best to err on the side of caution when electing people to such powerful positions. Health issues can go from good to bad, and from bad to worse much faster as we get older.
The Dems like to forget that their party was the only one to have two documented mentally incapacitated Presidents carry on with their term – Wilson & Roosevelt.
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It’s a reasonable inference that Edith Wilson and the president’s doctor were covering up severe infirmities that prevented the President from doing much of anything. He doesn’t appear to have had an enduring aphasia (a recording of a speech he gave in 1923 survives) and he was ambulatory, walking with a cane. It’s a stretch to say he was mentally incapacitated.
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Since when has anyone ever documented that Franklin Roosevelt suffered any mental incapacitation at all? There’s an argument that he was shot through with cancer at the time of his death (melanoma is commonly suspected) and he’d been in a wheelchair for 20-odd years consequent to illness (at that time thought to be polio, now often thought to have been Guillan-Barre syndrome).
Petain didn’t ‘hand over France to Hitler’. France lost the war and Petain negotiated the terms of surrender. It’s a reasonable counter-factual that Petain could have made more defensible decisions about how business was conducted in 1940-42, but the lot of them were never going to look heroic.
IMO, mandatory retirement for public officials at age 76 should be the general rule. If you wish to keep working (or are compelled to keep working) you can, like 85% of the public, find employment in the private sector. Past your 72d birthday, you should be running for municipal council, county council, or school board in low census jurisdictions, not much else.
as a 93.92 year old (as of March 5), I still write, do the math puzzles on Youtube, and am ambulatory (with the aid of a cane or walker). Old age does not necessarily imply mental or moral incapacity. There are memory lapses, but these have always been with me. I had been engaged for a year and forgot my wife’s name at a party. Let the shrinks figure that one out!