Joe Biden: ‘I Have No Idea’ Why Voters Think I’m Not Mentally Fit to Be President; Biden Needs Help Knowing What He Thinks: His handlers want you to accept that he must be assisted in articulating the administration’s actual positions, and they are HOPING YOU DON'T NOTICE

Joe Biden: ‘I Have No Idea’ Why Voters Think I’m Not Mentally Fit to Be President:

President Joe Biden shrugged off polls showing voters believed he was not mentally fit, during a press conference at the White House on Wednesday.

One reporter asked Biden why only 40 percent of voters in a new Morning Consult survey believe Biden is mentally fit, 37 percent say he is in good health, and 43 percent believe he is stable.

“I have no idea,” Biden replied.

The president appeared aware of recent polling showing his approval ratings at record lows but expressed disbelief that his approval was low even among independents. --->READ MORE HERE

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Joe Biden Needs Help Knowing What He Thinks:

His handlers want you to accept that he must be assisted in articulating the administration’s actual positions, and they are hoping you don’t notice.

When the president of the United States makes a statement about his position or view of an issue, we’re supposed to be able to rely on that as an official statement of what his administration believes. Sure, presidents may garble a fact or butcher their syntax sometimes, requiring the press secretary to clear up the occasional ambiguity or misstatement later, but when the press secretary and other administration figures repeatedly have to tell people that an aging, visibly slowed president didn’t mean what he obviously said, it is time to start wondering if the president is all there and is actually in charge.

That has become a worrisome pattern with Joe Biden’s public statements. Sometimes, an appearance requires multiple “clarifications.” Sometimes, it requires flatly contradicting what the president has said. We’re back there today, on Ukraine, and also on voting rights.

Worse, after Biden yesterday shamefully attacked the legitimacy of our upcoming elections, not only did the press secretary try to convince people that he didn’t actually mean it, the party’s other leading spokespeople dug in and defended Biden’s statement — suggesting that, actually, nobody is in charge. Here is what Biden said: --->READ MORE HERE

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