A Natural Disaster and an Infirm President

The Republican National Committee outfit that flagged this clip was actually generous in its transcription of the president’s remarks. They managed to divine a coherent sentence here, albeit one entirely unrelated to the subject about which he was asked. The effort their transcribers put into piecing together these three sentences from the garble that actually emerged from Joe Biden’s mouth is impressive.

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The president’s continued deterioration is more than a curiosity. Those near him knew his absence of mind could affect his performance in the event of a crisis — and a crisis is now upon us.

Ed Morrissey

I wrote more about that here. Don't forget that Biden was returning from yet another weekend at Rehoboth Beach, despite the full knowledge that Hurricane Helene would hammer several US states this weekend. Wouldn't it have been a better choice to just stick around the White House?

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