Joe Biden: Is His Health Okay?

Going back to the 2020 presidential campaign, right-leaning media has been well ahead of the curve in asking serious questions about President Joe Biden’s mental health. As his presidential term has aged, things have only gotten worse, with numerous scenes of confusion and anger taking place.

Just days ago, the president appeared to forget where he was, having to be saved by his wife. Other examples include Biden seemingly unable to control his anger at times, including with the families of slain soldiers. Past that, odd word salads and bumbling speeches have become what feels like a near-daily occurrence.

Dr. Greg Ganske, a retired surgeon and representative in Iowa for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, said he first met Biden in March of 1997. 

Sitting at a table during a retreat, his wife, Joe and Jill Biden, and himself, shared a wonderful time. Biden was witty and charming, with no stuttering or incomplete thoughts. Their wives shared professional experiences. They were impressed with Joe and Jill Biden.

Now Ganske says, “It pains me greatly to see a decline in President Biden, and it worries me. He was 54 years old then and is 78 years old now. People age differently. My own mother is 93 and still sharp, but younger friends have mental deterioration that is significant.”

Why should we be concerned with Biden’s mental acuity?

During the campaign, he said, “I think we can win back the House” when it was already in his party’s hands. Super Tuesday became Super Thursday; he forgot the words of the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing.” He even misstated what office he was running for in South Carolina: “My name’s Joe Biden. I’m the Democratic candidate for the Senate.” He repeatedly got confused about which state he was in, he called his son the attorney general of the United States and confused British Prime Minister Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher. 

Ganske further said, “Here in Iowa we saw puzzling behavior in confrontations with voters,” calling them “damn liars” and threatening them with pushup contests. Even his Democrat rivals questioned his memory. Julian Castro: “Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” Cory Booker told CNN, “There’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball across the end line without fumbling.” Biden responded to a reporter afterward, “What health concerns, man? You wanna wrestle?” Biden’s garbled sentences, misstatements and failure to finish trains of thought prompted Bernie Sanders’ surrogates to promote the hashtag #WhereIsJoe, implying that Biden’s campaign was keeping him in the basement.

More recently he’s made weird statements, telling one online audience that when he was a patient at Walter Reed hospital, the nurses would “breathe in my nostrils to make me move.”

It’s gotten worse since the election. In a CNN interview, he opined, “Um, you know there’s a, uh, during World War II, uh you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, that uh, you know, was totally different, than a, than the, he called it, you know, the WWII, he had the War Production Board.” In March he forgot the name of his Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, at a White House event, calling the Pentagon chief “the guy who runs that outfit over there.” 

Prior to the election, many commentators such as Rachel Maddow, Scott Dworkin, Eric Garland, Amy Siskind, James Comey, and other Democrats promoted the idea that President Donald Trump was crazy and mentally incapacitated and should be removed from office. Trump has an egocentric personality that turns off some and speaks more recklessly at times than I would prefer. However, he is not senile and his brain is relatively sharp whether you like what he says or not.

With all this being watched and observed, it boggles many American’s minds on how Biden truly won the elections. Let’s face it, the man can’t even string together a whole functioning sentence. 

Unfortunately, there are no good options. Even if Biden were to resign, a fully conscious Kamala Harris taking over is likely still a worse option. Thus, the country is left addled and leader-less. Those that chose to vote for Biden when these issues were apparent before the election are getting what they paid for.