Humanity
What’s happening to Joe Biden is elder abuse, but it’s par for the course.
Hubert Humphrey must be spinning in his grave.
If, as the former Vice-President said not long before his passing, “The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life..,” then his own party has failed miserably.1
Humphrey glossed over his pro-choice contradiction as it pertains to the ‘dawn of life,’ but he was one of those now-defunct Democrats who claimed abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.”2 Today, his Minnesota successors in the US Senate will pack the Supreme Court to preserve partial-birth abortion.
As to the circle of life, I’m afraid it doesn’t get much better at the other end—at least not for Joe Biden. The revelation this week that a neurologist had visited the White House (but trust us, ‘no findings’ of any disorder in the 81 year-old whose physical decline as been obvious to everyone but the media) is only the latest shoe to drop.3
Of course, another coverup by a liberal press corps is nothing new.
From FDR’s polio to JFK’s Addison’s, inquiring minds didn’t want to know if it jeopardized their partisan aims. But Biden’s debate debacle forced the media to come clean and the administration’s assertion of executive privilege in refusing to hand over the audio tape of the President’s bumbling interview with special counsel Robert Hur looks more and more like the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap from another White House a few decades ago.4
Yet the most apt of comparisons would have to be the wink and the nod given to Woodrow Wilson’s wife by complicit journalists while she ran the country as her stoke-ridden husband lay incapacitated.5 No one’s suggesting Biden had a stroke, but he’s not running the country.