Take the Test, Joe!

Following President Biden’s disastrous debate debacle, cries have been heard from friends and foes alike, demanding that he take a cognitive test to prove his mental competence. Like a petulant child, he has flatly refused, first saying that he “gets a full neurological test every day” by carrying out his presidential duties. Biden later claimed that “No one said I had to” and that “they said I'm good.”

The problem with excuse #1 is that, whether Joe realizes it or not, he is failing that presidential competency test every day… and has been since the day he took office. I have been following presidential politics very closely since 1968 and cannot recall a single incidence of a sitting president mumbling incoherently like Joe Biden does almost every time he speaks without a teleprompter (and sometimes when he does have a teleprompter).

As for excuse #2, that sounds to me like a man grasping for straws with an already clenched fist.

During his 22-minute interview with George Stephanopoulos last Friday, President Biden responded to the questions with answers so convoluted and disjointed that it was hard to decipher what he was actually saying. He would start in one place, meander to a second place, skip to a third, and finish at a fourth. Very few of his responses were cohesive and coherent, and he spoke in a voice so soft that it was inaudible at times.

Here is just one example…

“In this next term, I'm going to make sure we have got to straighten out the tax system. I'm going to make sure we're in a situation where we have health care for all people, where we're in a position where we have have childcare and eldercare, free up -- and all these things.”

Huh??? Could you repeat that again, Mr. President, this time in English?

Perhaps more troubling than President Biden’s poor diction and grammar – remember, he told Stephanopoulos that he was going to do “the goodest job as I know I can do” – was the fact that when asked if he had watched his debate performance, Mr. Biden said “I don't think I did, no.” Stephanopoulos wasn’t asking President Biden what he had for breakfast six months ago or for the name of his first-grade teacher. On the contrary, he was asking the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces if he had watched a tape of a debate that took place eight days prior… and Mr. Biden couldn’t recall for sure.

Take the cognitive test, Joe! If you are really that confident that your brain is firing on all cylinders, you should have nothing to worry about. However, if you have some doubts about how well you will perform, that’s all the more reason to take it.

After all, the primary duty of the President of the United States is to do what is in the best interests of the country… even if that means revealing to your fellow citizens what we already know: that you are mentally incapacitated and incapable of carrying out the duties of your office.