Slo-mo videos and early 'lids': How the White House protects America's oldest preside

[Counselor706]

His Twitter feed includes a steady stream of slow-motion videos showing the 78-year-old striding purposefully from one place to another.

Presidential historian Craig Shirley said displays of fitness are a staple of the TV-era presidency, from John F. Kennedy playing tennis to Ronald Reagan chopping logs. The White House strategy was clear in the 64-day wait for Biden’s first press conference, he added, and the occasional early "lid," sending journalists home around 1 p.m.

“I think they are rationing him,” he said. “This could work to his advantage by lowering expectations politically, but it’s a dangerous game to play if the perception is real that he is doddering, old, and decrepit.”

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[Bud_Spencer]

It's more than a perception. Joe is demented, senile and frail. Even now our enemies are advancing, secure in the knowledge that there is no one at the helm of America's Ship of State.

 

[YDB95]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Shirley

Says it all as far as his perspective is concerned.

 

[Champakian]

It's more than a perception. Joe is demented, senile and frail. Even now our enemies are advancing, secure in the knowledge that there is no one at the helm of America's Ship of State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Shirley

Says it all as far as his perspective is concerned.

That doesn't mitigate not only what we are able to observe with our own eyes,
but also that which is being withheld from our eyes; an inconvenient truth.

The man is being handled, handled by people not elected to do his job.
He is surrounded by a cabal of opportunists and trying to diminish
and demean the source, does not abrogate the truth.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

That doesn't mitigate not only what we are able to observe with our own eyes,
but also that which is being withheld from our eyes; an inconvenient truth.

The man is being handled, handled by people not elected to do his job.
He is surrounded by a cabal of opportunists and trying to diminish
and demean the source, does not abrogate the truth.

He's our Field Marshal Hindenburg, IOW.

 

[jomar]

Still salty that trump’s big lie didn’t work, eh.

 

[YDB95]

Still salty that trump’s big lie didn’t work, eh.

Heck, it's been 29 years and some of them will still tell you Clinton wasn't really elected.

 

[LLCox]

Does Joe tweet about how wonderful he is, how HIS stock market is doing and on and on and on... one lie after another?

 

[YDB95]

Does Joe tweet about how wonderful he is, how HIS stock market is doing and on and on and on... one lie after another?

You can bet your bottom dollar there's a right-wing website somewhere that is reporting all that and more.

 

[Champakian]

Watch out.

Joe will sic his dogs on you...