A deceptively simple question that in any functioning country shouldn’t even need to be asked. But it’s 2024. And in a matter of weeks, forces within the country ousted the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee shortly after his opponent was nearly assassinated. The announcement that Biden was dropping out appeared on social media. Now we’re told Biden will fumble through some sort of Oval Office speech.
Meanwhile, Kamala will reluctantly host (or at least have a brief photo op) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And the entire political establishment that spent weeks insisting that Biden was incapable of running for office will is now carefully avoiding the question of whether he can run the country.
In ‘Biden Unfit to be Candidate, Fit to be President‘, I wrote that’s not a tenable position.
Rep. Seth Moulton recently claimed that Biden didn’t recognize him at a D-Day event and called on him to resign. At the NATO summit, the head of the Eurasia Group described a world leader saying that Biden was “repeating the same anecdote twice in an individual meeting” and another case where Biden was “not recognizing someone that he knew quite well.”
Media reports indicated that Biden could not function well after 4 PM and that he needed to be in bed by 8 PM leaving him unable to attend events with world leaders. Watergate’s Carl Bernstein said that sources had described over a dozen incidents similar to the one at the debate. The media confirmed stories previously reported in the conservative press of Obama and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni having to lead Biden where he needed to go.
How under those circumstances is it possible for Biden to remain in his current position?
Democrats and their media want to have it both ways. They want to argue that Biden is mentally unfit for the strenuous task of making appearances at local diners and ice cream parlors, for speaking at campaign rallies and appearing in a debate, but entirely fit to control the nation’s nuclear weapons, along with the rest of its military, guide its economy, shape trillions in spending, and make the vital decisions that affect the lives of every single American.
Republicans will ask those questions even if Democrats won’t. So will Americans. Republicans may not ask them too pointedly because they don’t want Kamala stepping into the position, but she’s semi there anyway. And, more significantly, the country deserves functional leadership in the midst of international crises.
Over the past few days, it’s been unclear to Americans and to the world who’s running America.
That’s not a workable situation for any country let alone a world power.