King Lear gives up his power too much. President Joe Biden will surrender.
And that’s Joe’s tragedy.
Unlike Biden, Lear has a loyal king who is willing to tell the truth. When the old king gets rid of his good daughter and divides the kingdom between his wicked daughters, the Earl of Kent tries to tell Lear that he is ruining everything:
“What do you want to do, old man? Do you think duty should be afraid to speak, when power is to flatter the bow?” Lear, fascinated by his wicked daughters, screams at Kent, “Not before me!”
Kent asks the king to “see better.”
Some eyes may be plucked out in “Lear,” but the play is a lesson in inner blindness, the way power can block our ability to see ourselves, and the world. Lack of self-knowledge in leaders can lead to destruction.
And that’s where we are with Biden. Raison d’être to run, at 81, end the former President Donald Trump, a mendacious scofflaw who will become more incorrigible with the egregious decisions of the radical Supreme Court and the spiral of his own age.
But Biden’s claim that he can only defeat Trump has never been true. And now he’s lost some of his moral high ground because he’s hiding evidence of cognitive impairment.
Trump is a master con man, but Biden gives money for money.
He, his wife, the vice president and his aides have long worked to create the mirage that all is well in Bidenworld.
That mirage vanished with the debate.
Now we don’t know who is running the country. We just know who they shouldn’t be – presidents and ex-presidents.
Republican lawmakers cravenly failed to stop Trump after January 6. In the days after the debate, most Democratic lawmakers have shied away from being honest with Biden.
We now know that Biden’s aides have painted every scene with a Panglossian brush, creating a picture that doesn’t match what the world sees.
He praised the president’s performance in Normandy, the LA fundraiser and the Group of 7 summit in Italy. A strange moment with the president, when someone held his arm to direct him, was dismissed as a misinterpretation.
But I was in Paris that week commemorating the Normandy landings, and some of French President Emmanuel Macron’s advisers and European officials were surprised by the foggy Biden, when he didn’t know where he was.
I feel like a hostage to Joe’s ego – and a chip on his shoulder. I can have a president who fights for women to control themselves as long as I don’t care if Biden isn’t sharp enough to serve until he’s 86.
He can handle a photo of Annie Leibovitz. But he had to stop for two weeks before a live White House press conference to reassure those who feared he had brain freeze during the debate – and he admitted to donors that he “almost fell asleep” at the lectern.
As Reid Epstein and Maggie Haberman reported in The New York Times, the president told Democratic governors Wednesday night that they should sleep more and work less.
Alex Thompson of Axios, who has announced the news about the minutiae that governs the stage – Biden’s sleep schedule, orthopedic shoes, moving to the lower entrance with a shorter staircase to board Air Force One – announced that the president “can be trusted. involved” only from 10 o’clock until 4 p.m
On Friday, however, the Biden campaign outlined an “aggressive travel schedule,” trying to prove he’s still up to the task.
Biden refused and few were willing to tell him, with every syllable spelled out, that he was inferior.
Democrats need to give the public what they want. Voters say they want fresh, exciting voices and more choices than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Sen. Mark Warner is trying to oust another Democratic senator so Biden can be the bridge he promised.
Let’s open the convention and check out all the Democratic stars.
For those who say the nomination should be properly Harris, James Carville thinks the competition will give him a chance to gain the credibility he couldn’t do as vice president. Even his booster, Rep. James Clyburn, said that if Biden passes the baton, there should be a mini-primary before the convention.
And in this election, many thought it would help to have a candidate who could not be the coastal elite.
For decades, Biden has been rude. But his voice has subsided. His staff told him to avoid logorrhea. Later, the inner circle allowed him to do some interviews and nobody challenged him. Biden began to occasionally bounce in meetings, or stop. A crimped word count is a sign that it’s time to stop the power forward.
Biden told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News on Friday that he would come out only if God Almighty ordered him to. When asked how he felt if he couldn’t beat Trump, Biden said: “As soon as I gave it my all and I did the job that I knew I could do, that’s it.”
But no, when Biden said that Trump is a “one-man crime wave” and “the greatest threat to our democracy in American history.” It’s time for the president to “see better.”
The New York Times Opinion changed President Biden’s quote in this column about his feelings that he lost the election after White House officials and several news organizations contacted ABC on Friday about whether Biden said “best” or “good.” The ABC standards team re-listened to the audio and made changes. Mr. Biden’s actual words during the interview are difficult to understand and open to interpretation.