But aside from the occasional verbal gaffe--the kind he has always made, and which many of us make, as well--he has always struck me as a generally sharp President, both in his appearances before cameras and in his decisions and policies. With the thinnest of margins in Congress, he managed to shepherd through multiple big laws that have benefited Americans, like the pandemic relief bill and the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act and the semiconductor bill, laws that have gotten us back to a very good economy. By contrast, Trump--when his party controlled both chambers of Congress--managed to pass almost nothing except a big tax cut for the rich. A new healthcare plan? Nope. Immigration reform (including his big dumb wall)? Nope. An infrastructure bill? Nope. The guy couldn't convince his own team to do ANYTHING he had campaigned on. So much for the "art of the deal."
If the choice is between Biden and Trump (and it looks like it will be), then that's not even really a choice. It's a reasonable, capable, albeit older leader versus a total clown show who seems to live in an alternate reality. I'll happily take Biden's occasional old-man blunders any day.
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I'm surprised that whenever I read about Biden's verbal gaffes they are never described as a lingering symptom of the stutter he had in his youth. Overcoming it is a constant task that doesn't disappear. I have no doubt that as he gets older it gets harder to control, but that has nothing to do with mental capacity.
Exactly. When Biden speaks his brain must run though his next sentence searching fo troublesome words and finding substitutes.
I doubt many of the young whiners here could do that.
Anybody can throw their hat into the ring for the top nomination. Two challengers did not well in the primary we just had.
Jump in if you can do better.
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