JOE BIDEN SAYS HE'S 'CONSTANTLY BEING TESTED FOR COGNITIVE DECLINE' - BUT CAN'T REMEMBER WHY - THINKS RED CHINA TOLD HIM TO

Biden: I’m ‘Constantly Tested’ for Cognitive Decline

By Melanie Arter | June 30, 2020 | 4:23pm EDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the coronavirus pandemic and the economy on June 30, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is “constantly tested” for cognitive decline.

At a press conference in Wilmington, Del., Biden was also asked whether he has been tested for “some degree of cognitive decline.”

“I've been tested, and I’m constantly tested. Look, all you've got to do is watch me, and I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capabilities to the cognitive capability of the man I'm running against,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said.

Biden also said he supports taking down Confederate statues, but it’s the responsibility of elected officials to move them.

The former vice president was asked whether Confederate monuments are worthy of preservation and whether they should be torn down without the vote of local elected officials.

“I think it's very different. I think it's better if they’re taken down like they took the Confederate flag off the Mississippi flag. That's a better way of doing it, but I can understand. I can understand the anger and anguish that people feel by having, for years and years, been under the statue of Robert E. Lee, who if you’re an African-American, so it’s a difference,” he said.

Biden said that “there’s a distinction between-- and those monuments, and I shift responsibility, and I’m not--- I think at the elected officials where those statues are have a responsibility to move.”

“Put them in museums. Get them down, but don't expect, if you have sitting in front of you after all these years and you finally, finally are going through another phase of maybe responding to the systemic racism in America and what we've seen happen, don't be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of Jefferson Davis.

Biden then confused the Thomas Jefferson Memorial for with the Lincoln Memorial.

“It's better that they do not, but it’s fundamentally different than pulling down the statue or going to the Lincoln Memorial and trying to pull-- not Lincoln Memorial - that's a bad example -the Jefferson memorial and grabbing Jefferson off his chair,” he said.

The Lincoln Memorial features the former President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair. The Jefferson Memorial features former President Thomas Jefferson standing up.

We're not buying Joe Biden's 'tough on China' Act

 

By Ken Blackwell

Joe Biden is running away from his record as the "pro-China" candidate so quickly that his defenders in the liberal press can't make heads or tails of it.  Ordinary Americans are equally confused.

Biden spent over three decades opening American markets to Chinese goods, ignoring China's abhorrent human rights record, and dismissing the challenge posed by our greatest rival for global leadership.  The "made in China" era coincided with the closure of tens of thousands of American factories, stagnant working-class wages, and the loss of America's ability to produce essential goods domestically — a vulnerability that took on incredible significance when we learned that we were dependent upon China to produce the medical equipment needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

This disaster was facilitated by politicians of both parties, and no one was more gung ho than Joe Biden, poster child for the globalism that reigned supreme until the 2016 presidential election, which Donald J. Trump won by campaigning on a platform diametrically opposed to the "open markets and open borders" philosophy of the D.C. establishment.  In the White House, President Trump became the first American leader in decades to take a firm stand against China's malfeasance and demand a genuinely fair and reciprocal trade deal for American workers.

While Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States, conversely, he was downplaying the consequences of China's rise — even as his own family tried to get rich through deals with Chinese state-owned companies.

How is it possible, then, that Biden has suddenly tried to recast himself as the "tough-on-China" candidate in the 2020 race?

Biden's campaign even ran an ad claiming the president had "rolled over for the Chinese" in response to the coronavirus that Beijing unleashed on the world.  It's one of the most poorly executed flip-flops in American electoral history, coming just months after Biden called President Trump's life-saving ban on most travel from China "hysterical xenophobia."

No one is buying it.  Everyone knows about President Trump's record of success in bringing China to the negotiating table through strategic counter-tariffs.  The "Phase One" trade deal that was inked earlier this year represents the first major trade concessions from China in a generation.  Even the fanatical free-traders who actually liked Biden's globalism see right through his new façade.  The libertarians at the Cato Institute, for instance, published an article acknowledging that Biden's reversal is "futile" and "inherently lacks credibility."

Even the intellectual left is aghast at Biden's fake toughness on China.  The Atlantic called it "utterly futile" and "pointless — even dangerous."  The New York Times published an op-ed all but begging Biden to drop the act.

If even his own supporters are rolling their eyes at Biden play-acting as a China skeptic, why are he and his team even bothering to attempt the deception?

The answer is simple.  Americans have finally woken up to the economic and national security threat posed by China.  The coronavirus pandemic made that threat impossible to ignore.  No one wants to go into this November as the "pro-Beijing" candidate.

Unfortunately for Joe Biden, he's been the "pro-Beijing" candidate throughout his political career, and there's a decades-long record to prove it.

Ken Blackwell served as mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio treasurer, and a U.S. ambassador to the U.N.  He currently serves on the board of directors for Club For Growth. 

Image: Marc Nozell via Flickr.