There are many incidents in 2024 that we could say was the scandal of the year……but I think this situation hits the nail on the head….at least in my mind.
Looking back on 2024, Peggy Noonan has no doubt of the scandal of the year: “the decline of Joe Biden’s mental acuity” and what she says was a coverup by White House staff. The Wall Street Journal columnist claims President Biden “has been in apparent cognitive decline for some years, perhaps since before taking office, and wasn’t fully up to the job.” She suggests the right move would’ve been to inform the public. Instead, the Biden White House “felt justified in misleading the public about the president’s true state,” protecting him from scrutiny—until it couldn’t. With the June presidential debate, “the country finally saw what those in the White House saw every day,” Noonan writes, adding the alleged coverup will forever color the Biden administration’s reputation.
She contrasts the White House’s alleged actions with those of the wife and aides of Woodrow Wilson who “misled the public as to his condition” after the president was left incapacitated in 1919. In her 1939 memoir, Edith Bolling Wilson wrote that she suggested her husband should resign before a doctor told her that would be bad for the country and that she should essentially serve in his place until he recovered. She claimed to have acted as an intermediary and “I, myself, never made a single decision regarding the disposition of public affairs.” However, in his 2013 biography of her husband, historian A. Scott Berg wrote that Bolling Wilson had “executed the physical and most of the mental duties of the office” and “enshrouded the Presidency in as much secrecy as possible.”
“The Wilsons’ historical reputation was never the same. Nor will the Bidens’ be,” writes Noonan, who suggests that to mislead the public about the president’s true state is “Democratic Party gospel.” Apart from the alleged coverups related to Democrats Biden and Wilson, Noonan refers to speculation that Ronald Reagan was experiencing cognitive decline shortly before he left office. “Political parties, like people, must beware the stories they tell themselves, the stories they weave and come to believe that just are not true,” Noonan concludes. “The not-true ones can get you in terrible trouble, especially the ones you use to justify your actions and that make poor personal motives seem noble.”
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Like I said this ‘scandal’ I agree with….I was never a big Biden supporter so this should come as no surprise to anyone.
If you think there is something else that is the ‘big’ scandal of 2024….please elaborate.
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I don’t know if it is the biggest scandal of 2024, but it is definitely accurate. The man was walking around like he was in a dream.
Best wishes, Pete.
For us it was for his condition was well hidden from the public. chuq
From what I’ve seen and read, I suspect Biden’s difficulties were intermittent, rather than a permanent 24/7 deal.
Perhaps we need to stop paying attention to Biden’s failings and pay more attention to the psychopathic storm starting to envelop the country due to the idiot electorate which put an amoral, vile, greed and lust-ridden, cruel, vicious, lying loudmouth in the Oval Office.
We should definitely watch the psychopath waiting in the wings. chuq
Two wrongs don;t make a right.
Which two wrongs? chuq
The Biden fraud “Oh he’s so energetic and on the ball” lies dumped upon the nation and the world are much greater than mere scandals. Jill and all the liars re his competence are criminals and actually dangerous.
Or should I say “pros” in their lack of integrity and for the dismissal of the seriuosness of what has taken place in the great cover-up. Hidden from the public ? Well why couldn’t the millions of voters see it in his “hide in the basement ” first campaign against Trump ?
That is what they do….remember FDR or the mental decline of Reagan? To pick on one and not condemn the whole lot is wrong. chuq
I do condemn the whole lot of “he’s all the way top notch” liars. I think FDR proved to be a great manager and seemed wise and analytic and steered the course so well but the strokes ravaged him quickly near the end. I think it was Stalin who opined on FDR’s decline when they met. I am a Republican but would have voted for him every time. Reagan’s near end of life letter showing such majestic humility and acceptance of his own decline stirred me greatly. Biden’s insistance of firm mental ability is astonishing and beyond delusional. I’m waiting for Biden to give a pardon to Satan next. I think the enemies of all presidents claimed that the president in their time and other leaders were wicked and crazy. JFK’s “Profiles in Courage” really presents that well. .
I think it was a pure political move on his handlers part. Pardons are what ALL presidents do…..to pick on just one for it is wrong….of course they do and it has been that way since Jefferson and Adams….chuq