Biden: I’m ‘Constantly Tested’ for Cognitive Decline
By Melanie Arter | June 30, 2020 | 4:23pm EDT
(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.”
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
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment