Jill Biden more political opportunist than wife

OPINION:

President Joe Biden has a problem forming complete sentences, has a challenge walking without assistance, has a difficulty stringing together thoughts that seem cohesive in the light of verbal day, and that often leave the listener in various states of wonder and perplexity — and those are his good days. 

But to his wife, Jill, that’s “ridiculous.”

Her powers of denial are great. Unfortunately, they’re not great enough to blind the rest of the world to the obvious.

In a recent interview  on “CBS Sunday Morning” in which she was asked to address concerns about her husband’s mental fitness and ability to lead, the first lady blithely dismissed, with a curt reply: “I think that’s ridiculous,” she said.

Only — it’s not.

Biden’s bumbling has become far too noticeable to disguise. Unlike during his campaign, he can’t stay in his basement. This is the leader of the free world, after all. The people want to see him from time to time, if only to put at rest the rumors that one of his feet rests firmly in his own grave.

And yes, that’s what voters truly think.

“Nearly Half of Voters Question Biden’s Mental Fitness, New Poll Finds,” National Review wrote just a few weeks ago.

By the numbers, that Politico/Morning Consult survey found that 48 percent of voters expressed doubts about Biden’s mental capabilities. What’s more significant is that just a year earlier, almost two-thirds of voters believed Biden was mentally fit to lead.

The more we see of Joe, the more we wonder: Is Joe really in there?

His doctors insist he’s “healthy” and “fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency,” according to a physician’s report issued in November, on the heels of this Politico/Morning Consult poll. But come on now; surely, they jest.

Just recently, Biden told a truck driver that he used to drive a tractor-trailer, even though he didn’t; he told a group of people he served as a sort of Six-Day War ambassador to Prime Minister Golda Meir and Egypt’s government, even though he didn’t; he read “end of message” from his notes while delivering a eulogy for the recently departed Bob Dole — as if his mind couldn’t comprehend the notation from his speech writers was intended for his purposes only.

And more alarmingly, he actually expressed confusion about his location while being guided — physically — to his position of public speaking.

“Where am I?” Biden said, apparently to the assistant who was holding his arm and escorting him in place.

These are not gaffes.

This is not the “oh, that’s just Joe being Joe” type of missteps and miscues and blunders and bungles.

These are concerning, worrisome, alarming evidences of mental degradations. These are episodes in the Life of Joe Biden that show him more as a patient of dementia than as a sound, solid, strong president of the United States.

And people are indeed noticing.

“As of November 2021, 41 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said that Joe Biden was a very weak leader,” Statista wrote in December. Another 18 percent said he was “somewhat weak;” 28 percent, “somewhat strong;” and 13% “very strong.”

That 13 percent must be Jill Biden and her friends.

‘Cause everyone else watching, including foreign forces, both friendly and hostile, sees Biden for what he’s become: an elderly man, age 79, struggling to do the day-to-day.

If Biden weren’t such a political tool of the left, maybe he could have lived out his last years with some semblance of dignity, outside of the White House he’s so blatantly and uncomfortably leading in name only. Aren’t spouses supposed to watch out for one another, though? Aren’t good wives, at the very least, supposed to protect their husbands in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish — to keep from the mocking of others and to shield from the mayhem of mistakes? To say, for instance, in times of mental instability brought on by old age and medical issues, honey, perhaps it’s not wise to seek the White House slot, after all?

That Biden’s own wife puts politics first, and seeks to blind the world to truths about his mental demise, is almost as pitiful to watch as his mental demise.  

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.