https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgedpw4r5eo

The president came into the debate with a low bar to clear, and he stumbled. He was flat. He was rambling. He was unclear.

Roughly midway through the debate, the Biden campaign told reporters that the president was been battling a cold - an attempt to explain his raspy voice. That may be so, but it also sounded like an excuse.

For 90 minutes, more often than not, Joe Biden was on the ropes. Particularly early in the evening, some of his answers were nonsensical. He ended one answer by saying, “We finally beat Medicare” – an odd reference to the government run healthcare programme for the elderly.

Mr Biden's own former communications' director Kate Beddingfield was on CNN immediately after the debate, and she was clear: "There's no two ways about it, that was not a good debate for Joe Biden."

She said his mission was to prove he had the energy and the stamina, and he failed.

Decisions need to be made.

Biden isn't the official candidate yet.

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By Eugene Daniels
27 June 2024

POLITICO

President Joe Biden opened the debate with a raspy voice and disjointed, rambling answers, reigniting Democratic concerns about his age and ability to take on former President Donald Trump.

Many of the president’s answers were hard to follow. At one point, seemingly losing his train of thought, Biden said “we finally beat Medicare,” misspeaking about his own policy on earned benefits.

In text messages with POLITICO, Democrats expressed confusion and concern as they watched the first minutes of the event. One former Biden White House and campaign aide called it “terrible,” adding that they have had to ask themselves over and over “What did he just say? This is crazy.”

FULL STORY: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/biden-debate-opening-concerns-00165595

Biden was slow out of the blocks, but he got back in after the first 20 minutes.

Trump lied most of the time, and just abused Biden the rest of it.  I saw him say nothing I have not seen him say a zillion times already....."I was the best the World has ever seen, our economy was the likes of which nobody has ever seen, the Military and Firemen and Border Force love me, Ukraine would never have happened under me, October 7 would never have happened if I was Pres,"...all easy claims to make and  cannot be disproven, because it it is simply impossible to go back in time.  I am sure a fact checker will be putting their truth slide role over what each of them said, soon.

No doubt, Biden was off key.

One thing Trump said which took my ear.

He said he had made Iran broke and because if that, if he had still been POTUS, Iran would never have been able to fund Hamas etc.

I immediately thought of what triggered the War in the Pacific on the 7th December, 1941, and that was the USA's deliberate strangulation of the Japanese economy.

Leader of the free world and most powerful/dangerous military/economic weapons available.
It's not a joke, you cannot want a continued successful USA for others to hopefully follow around the world rather than choose an opposite direction and vote for this cognitive corpse.
Anyone who would vote Biden has the analytical depth of a child.


https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/moment-biden-self-implod...

Yes, Biden is finished.

aquascoot wrote on Jun 28^th, 2024 at 2:50pm:

If he wins he will screw the US like he screwed California.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 17^th, 2024 at 5:39pm:



Where's the unflushable gob o' sh***e and the wee pantaloon sniffer from Pakistan when you need their analysis?

Aussie wrote on Jun 28^th, 2024 at 2:29pm:


Yes, but if you remember, Mr Trump stopped sending those pallets of newly printed US dollars Obama was flying over to the Iranian government each day, Aussie.

Billions and billions of nice, clean bills. Just think, nobody had ever thought of doing that before. You need political outsiders to come up with solutions like that, no?

Also, he made European countries pay their NATO bills. Just think, every quarter, NATO would send the bills out. Those arrogant French and humourless German leaders would just ignore them, can you imagine? And there was the US, complete suckers, paying for everybody else.

All it took was for Mr Trump to go in with a bill to hand over - they didn't like that! They came up with all these excuses, but ultimately, they paid.

Then there were his tariffs. There was Chi-na, ripping Americans off and taking them for fools. Mr Trump taxed Chi-na, and suddenly, America was back in the black again, money rolling in. Americans had never been richer or happier.

Mr Trump worked with Vlad, Xi, Kim and all the other tough leaders to make sure there were no more wars, it was all so beautiful.

Ah, the good old days.