A flurry of recent clips, many of them edited or lacking context, laid bare a major challenge for the president as he tries to persuade voters he has the energy for a second term.
Some of the videos of Mr. Biden circulating during this year’s campaign are clearly manipulated to make him look old and confused. Others cut out vital context to portray him in a negative light, a process sometimes known as a “cheap fake” because it requires little expense or technological skill to create.
And some are simply brief, unedited clips of an octogenarian president who is an uneven public speaker prone to verbal miscues, who shuffles at times (his doctor has said he has a “stiffened gait,” partly because of arthritis) and who is otherwise showing signs of his age, his greatest and most persistent political liability.
I think that’s the rub.
It doesn’t take much to exaggerate it to where he looks incapable because he’s 82 freaking years old.
He’s 20 years past retirement age for his generation, his age is effecting him. Just because it’s not as bad as Republicans say, doesn’t mean it’s not bad.
We can’t let Republicans define our standards. What they say just flat out doesn’t matter.
But reality does.
I do disagree with the end:
his greatest and most persistent political liability.
His greatest and most persistent political liability is being consistently more conservative than Dem voters want, and a complete refusal to ever compromise with them, while repeatedly giving Republicans want they want.
I think that’s the rub.
It doesn’t take much to exaggerate it to where he looks incapable because he’s 82 freaking years old.
He’s 20 years past retirement age for his generation, his age is effecting him. Just because it’s not as bad as Republicans say, doesn’t mean it’s not bad.
We can’t let Republicans define our standards. What they say just flat out doesn’t matter.
But reality does.
I do disagree with the end:
His greatest and most persistent political liability is being consistently more conservative than Dem voters want, and a complete refusal to ever compromise with them, while repeatedly giving Republicans want they want.