Joe Biden is too old to be president.
Watching Biden blow joke after joke — crafted by a team of comedy writers — at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was just more proof. The jokes were on a teleprompter, and Biden had no doubt run through them a bunch of times, so how do you mess that up?
But Biden’s clear decline and lack of mental acuity are of no concern to one New York Times columnist, who says we don’t even need a president.
“Strange as it may sound, the American government can function without a healthy president,” David Leonhardt wrote in a newsletter last week.
Leonhardt said Biden, 80, is much like former President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. But like so much of the reporting in the Times, that’s wrong. FDR was sharp as a tack mentally throughout his tenure in the White House, and, for the record, he was 20 years younger than Biden.
