September 28, 2020
Slow Joe was Never Very Bright in the First Place
By P.F. Whalen
The decline of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s mental acuity is obvious to anyone who is paying attention, and the issue is rightfully being debated by opponents and even some supporters. Despite Biden’s efforts to stay out of the limelight, he cannot hide forever, and he commits discomfiting errors on a seemingly daily basis. In one recent cringeworthy episode while in Wisconsin at a campaign event, Biden attempted to recite the Pledge of Allegiance: “I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real.†It is one thing to forget the words to the Declaration of Independence, as Biden did in March. But Biden’s stumble through the Pledge, which he has likely spoken tens of thousands of times like every other American of his generation, has driven speculation of a serious mental issue to new levels. But to simply dismiss Biden’s current incompetence as some age-related mental deterioration would be giving his previous mental capacity too much credit. Good ole’ Joe was never particularly sharp to begin with.
Taking credit for someone else’s work is never a good idea, not for a twenty-something trying to improve a term paper and not for a seventy-something trying to impress the grandkids. But for a 44-year old running for president to plagiarize a well-known British politician, such behavior can only be described as idiotic, which is exactly what Joe Biden did during his first bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Biden was also caught exaggerating his academic record during that same campaign, and in fact confessed to having been accused of plagiarism during law school. He eventually admitted to his mistakes and embarrassingly dropped out of the race as a result. There are probably a few rationales we could cite in speculating why Biden thought it was a good idea to lift material verbatim from someone else, but dementia is not one of them. Stupidity, however, is.
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