Joe Biden: First “Black Woman” to Serve in the White House
A person can’t make this sort of thing up. Biden’s statement came during a radio interview with a Philadelphia station (Guardian, July 5, 2024). The interview was presented as an answer to his earlier disastrous presidential debate with Donald Trump. Dr. Sanjay Gupta (Guardian, July 5, 2024), a neurosurgeon, calls for Biden to undergo “neurological testing”. With the radio interview there was a sort of coverup after the attribution about being the first “Black woman” in the White House and is presented as a gaffe about Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. Talk about a smoking gun! Again, a person can’t make this stuff up! Biden is the so-called leader of the sole superpower.
A geriatrician writing at the New York Times (July 5, 2024) about Biden notes that her observations about age, health, and cognitive issues are not clinical, not having direct access to Joe Biden and says he is dealing “valiantly”.
Biden seems okay with waging two open wars and who knows how many clandestine wars, but this is not a treatise on war. Some potential voters, especially young individuals, or those who were privy to the violent police attacks against antiwar protesters during this past spring’s push against the Israel-Gaza war, may see this president as anything but valiant.
This video of John Kennedy’s press conference in late August 1962 came to my attention on a YouTube feed. Kennedy’s ability to engage with the press and his ability to express himself and think on his feet, so to speak, is in stark contrast to the shenanigans of what is seen in the two candidates for president, major candidates, in 2024. One blusters, the other one is lost. Notable in this press conference is Kennedy’s discussion of Southeast Asia, above-ground nuclear testing, negotiations with the former Soviet Union, his discussion of the Monroe Doctrine, and Cuba.
There is much missing from Kennedy’s press conference about the war in Southeast Asia, in which the US was already heavily involved, and the soon-to-be explosion of the question of nuclear missiles in Cuba that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Kennedy is true to his anticommunism of the times that was fairly typical of the politics during the Cold War. What strikes the listener is how removed Kennedy’s intelligence and ability to express himself are from today’s politics and the clown car that has come to town.
Joe Biden: First “Black Woman” to Serve in the White House