What a difference a week makes. Last week, White House spinners and Democratic pundits were insisting that clips of US president Joe Biden appearing to freeze up, slur his words and generally show his age at various public events were selectively edited ‘cheap fakes’ – tawdry, low-tech misinformation put about by the scurrilous right-wing media. Now, after Biden froze up, slurred his words and generally showed his age during last night’s first televised presidential debate of 2024, in front of tens of millions of Americans and in the full glare of the international media, they’ve suddenly changed their tune.
Democratic pundits and politicians have finally had to concede that the president is clearly very frail, as the American public concluded months ago
White House spokespeople are currently trying to keep a straight face while saying the doddering, 81-year-old Biden did rather well in his CNN face-off against relative whippersnapper Donald Trump, 78. But many more Democratic pundits and politicians have finally had to concede that the president is clearly very frail, as the American public concluded months
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