He stumbled, fumbled and bumbled all the way through it, barely uttering a single coherent sentence. "Where's Joe Biden?" could have been the theme of the evening. We can't even be sure that he knew where he was.
And of course, the commentary afterward by none other than CNN itself, was rather shocking. Well, that's because the commentators were being honest. At the same time, how on Earth could they have spun the performance as anything other than it was?
An utter disaster.
When you've got CNN struggling to understand what they just witnessed, that has to be something that causes great alarm for anyone. These are people who would otherwise be in the bag for Joe Biden no matter what. They are just now finally figuring it out that Joe Biden's somewhere in Lala Land?
And they weren't pulling any punches either. "The campaign is over," and "Joe's got to go," were said several times by panel members. "He can't be the president," and "he is incapable of finishing out a second term," were other utterances.
Beyond that, did anyone see Jill Biden interacting with Joe Biden after the debate in the post-debate rally they held? It was like she was speaking to a toddler who just successfully poopied in the toilet for the first time.
"Good job, Joe. You answered all the questions and knew all the answers!" Jill Biden cheered, mic in hand, smiling from ear to ear. Granted, that may be cringeworthy in any setting. But when you are saying this to the supposed leader of the free world?
That's terrifying.
What do you think the conversations are that Putin is having right now? Or the Ayatollah? Kim Jong-Un? Xi Ping?
It's anyone's guess where the Democrats go from here. It's clear they can't win the election. We're in Nixon territory, folks, when all support is gone. Even his staunchest supporters are scratching their heads in an "Oh shit" moment where they are caught between a rock and a hard place.
"We can't have Donald Trump in the White House, but...Jesus Christ!"
Even Kamala Harris when she was interviewed by Anderson Cooper, who had surprisingly stinging questions for her about the performance, seemed visibly shaken by the whole thing. If Kamala Harris were a man, her Adam's apple would have been bobbing like a sideways pendulum on a clock measuring time in milliseconds.
Everyone was expecting a stellar performance. Donald Trump was supposed to be scared out of his wits. Some suggested we'd see a Joe Biden similar to the amped up one we saw during his final State of the Union address. We were supposed to get a beautifully constructed omelet and what we got was a splatter of burnt scrambled eggs.
It leaves the Democrats in a very serious dilemma here. Who do they pick in his stead? Can they even expect that helps? Can they pull the 25th Amendment and install Kamala Harris and put her out there in September on the debate stage with Trump? Will that even do any good?
It seems to be me it's too little too late. And frankly, with all that's happened not just last night, but over the past going on four years, how much trust can anyone, including the Democrats themselves, have in the party to get it right no matter what they decide?
Haven't they lied over and over and over again to the American people about the president's condition? Haven't they tried to gloss it over? To what end? To win an election? What about the damn country? What about the American people? What about the importance of democracy? How in the world can any of those things be protected if the sitting president isn't even capable of finding his way off a stage?
Beyond that, when it is determined that enemy missiles are headed our way—who the hell is told about that and who the hell decides what to do about it?
Because if anything is clear as a bell now, it's not Joe Biden on the other end of that call. And if that's not on the mind of anyone right now, especially after last night's debate performance? It sure in hell ought to be.
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