Democrats appear to be bracing themselves for damage control ahead of the midterm elections and recent comments from a former top adviser for President Barack Obama suggest the groundwork is being laid to transition away from flailing President Joe Biden before the 2024 election is compromised by one of his “major” problems.
With Biden’s approval rating trending ever-downward even corporate media appears to be losing their will to carry his water. The New York Times released a piece Saturday drawing attention to a growing fervor on the left that the president has moved beyond his usefulness and, whether merely perceived or an actual limiting factor, his age is increasingly becoming a detriment to moving the progressive agenda forward.
Democratic strategist and former Obama adviser David Axelrod presented that case, albeit empathetically, when speaking with the Times about Biden’s advanced age.
“The presidency is a monstrously taxing job, and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term,” he said of the now 79-year-old Biden, “and that would be a major issue.”
The rest of Axelrod’s comments appeared to present the remainder of Biden’s administration as an attempt to preserve a legacy as he stated, “Biden doesn’t get the credit he deserves for steering the country through the worst of the pandemic, passing historic legislation, pulling the NATO alliance together against Russian aggression and restoring decency and decorum to the White House.”
“And part of the reason he doesn’t is performative,” the strategist went on, arguing the shots against Biden’s feeble demeanor and routine incoherent ramblings were unfounded. “He looks his age and isn’t as agile in front of a camera as he once was, and this has fed a narrative about competence that isn’t rooted in reality.”
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— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) December 23, 2021
In an interview just prior to Christmas, the president himself had conceded that his age would be a determining factor in attempting to continue on when he expressed, “Yes, but look, I’m a great respecter of fate. Fate has intervened in my life many, many times. If I’m in the health I’m in now – if I’m in good health – then, in fact, I would run again.”
The Times went on to suggest that the continued desire to prop Biden up rather than put him out to pasture is a result of there being no clear favorite to succeed the president. In the piece that got feedback from numerous members of the Democratic National Committee, they wrote, “Few Democrats interviewed expect that high-profile leaders with White House ambitions would defer to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has had a series of political hiccups of her own in office.”
They went on to list high-profile figures from the 2020 Democratic presidential primary like Sens. Bernie Sanders (VT), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Amy Klobuchar (MN) and Cory Booker (NJ) who, while polling better than Harris at the time, still fell short of earning the support of their party.
Even former acting White House Communications Director Anita Dunn who was brought into Biden’s administration recently to aid in messaging ahead of the midterms suggested the president had been the only viable Democratic nominee in 2020 when she stated, “Only one person steered a transition past Trump’s lies and court challenges and insurrection to take office on Jan. 20: Joe Biden.”
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His age is not a factor . He just needs to ramble on in a brain dead fog
While the puppeteer tells him what to say and what to sign .
Doesn’t know shit from chewed bacon .
What say you Obama ass?
“One of his “major” problems”? If he hasn’t had any “major” problems yet, then I fear ever having to live through a truly “major” bidet problem. Good God! Lets try an inventory; Gas prices, inflation, exit from Afghanistan, mentally deficient POTUS, Hunter Biden, kamala harris. The list goes on and on. How much can be turned into junk before the liberal side acknowledges that his presidency is a disaster?
Bidens age is irrelevant he was a blithering idiot 40 years ago too.
Can Anita list the Trump lies that impacted us as much as Biden’s disastrous policies?
Anita, you and the rest of the Dems are forgetting one thing. The only reason Joey got elected is the lamestream media and big tech did a very effective hatchet job on Trump. They down played his successes and over played his errors. Now Joey is seeing the opposite, think I’m wrong? Then why is Trump still banned from Twitter? I rest my case.
Let’s go Brandon and take Anita with you.
When ” the heat” cools off on hunter, china, ukraine, and russian stories, the groper speaks pretty coherently. When the stories start up again, and it looks like there could be some potential trouble for him, he goes all ” Vincent ” the chin ” Gigante on us all. Don’t be surprised if he starts walking around the White House grounds in his bathrobe, with his chuckie schumer hanging out.
” Axelrod” …lol….The biggest liar and hustler and the DNC’s enabler of hill the shill and obama
I think his lack of mental ability is a big drawback. He acts stupidly..Not to mention that I think he’s COMPROMISED to the hilt.
His age has nothing to do with it… Biden is a crooked politician with a sick mentality. Btw, where is the real Biden? Why won’t the MSM tell “we the people” the truth? The whole Demo’n’crats & Rino’s in our congress are very demonic and old!!! Every one of them needs go, to Gitmo that is!!
China Joe Biden got his political start in the living room of Jimmy Hoffa. He started off as. a mob congressman, and then became the poster boy for the corrupt credit card companies. He hired Anita Dunn, who has told the world her favorite leader of all time is Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao only murdered 70 MILLION of his subjects, over 5 times as many as Hitler killed. This is who China Joe hired. Let’s go Brandon. FJB
age has nothing to do with it my mom is 90 he is just a dumbdonkey and always has been
His dementia is even more of a detriment!!!
These are two people that are prime representatives of the democrats. Obama is an imposter and Axelrod a communist!!
People don’t like Biden, but if Democrats think people want Harris, Booker, Warren, etc., they’d better think again.