George Stephanopoulos, former Bill Clinton adviser and the ultimate Democratic insider, held an intervention masquerading as an interview Friday night.
Rather than ask tough questions about President Biden’s mental deficiencies and the message it sends to our allies and enemies, he begged in a dozen different ways:
Do you really think you can beat Donald Trump?
Are you fooling yourself about how sharp you are?
Please Grampa Joe, hand over the car keys!
“George George George Geroge,” Biden patronized with every question.
Nothing about Biden’s demeanor or his answers was reassuring.
He refused to have a cognitive test or even an independent medical exam.
He said the proof of his lack of dementia was that he “created” jobs, a lie which he can never let go.
There was a bit about single-handedly rescuing the computer chip industry and NATO, then trailing off into, “well . . .”
“Look.”
“C’mon.”
“George.”
What to know about the fallout from President Biden's debate performance:
- President Biden’s poor performance in the first 2024 presidential debate left some Democrats unsure of his fitness for office and future as the party’s candidate.
- Biden told a crowd at a North Carolina rally the day after the debate that he doesn’t “debate as well as I used to” — but insisted that he can still “do this job.”
- The New York Times editorial board called on the president to serve the country by dropping out of the race. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a similar editorial a day later.
- In a pre-taped interview with ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, Biden claimed that his “bad episode” at the debate was the result of a cold and not any cognitive issues.
- Biden has rejected calls for him to step down from fellow Democrats, insisting to Stephanopoulos that he is the most qualified to win the election. At a Wisconsin rally, he declared that he is “running and going to win again.”
- Ten congressional Democrats have joined in calling for Biden’s exit from the race. Former Biden supporter George Clooney echoed these calls in an op-ed published in the New York Times just weeks after he helped lead a record-breaking fundraiser for the Democrat.
- Democratic voters have continued to raise concerns about Biden’s nomination since the debate, with speculations and suggestions for replacement nominees running rampant.
Stephanopoulos rightly pointed out that “exhaustion” was a weird excuse, considering he had more than a week of rest at Camp David (with 11 am work calls and afternoon naps).
No, I was sick, Biden claimed, bad cold.
“Bad night,” he insisted, repeating a scripted talking point.
Just an episode.
He previously told a group of governors that the answer was simple: No more nights.
If you really wanted to comfort the American public, you would agree to more than a 22-minute interview with a friendly former Democratic operative, pre-taped before your early bedtime.
You would have Biden walk into the briefing room and take questions from all comers.
But he won’t, because he can’t.
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The facade has been lifted, and trying to stitch it back together again with a series of early afternoon, stage-managed teleprompter speeches ain’t going to cut it.
The piece de resistance was when Biden was asked about his dismal poll numbers.
He just pretended like they didn’t exist.
“I don’t believe that’s my approval rating. That’s not what our polls show,” Biden said.
Stephanopoulos was stunned, and with him every Democratic elite.
Really?
Denial, or senile?
Either way, Biden’s not fit for the office, and has entered that stubborn stage of grumpy old man that wants you all off his lawn.
“If the Lord Almighty said get out of the race, I’d get out of the race,” he said.
“The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.”
Maybe not, but the voters are going to come down hard in November.
Democrats don’t have a prayer.