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Episode 656: Still Too Old

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National Review

Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Maddy discuss Joe Biden's age, the fall of Ibram X. Kendi, and the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

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And the Is Joe Biden up for the job? Plus Ibrahim Kandy exposed and the 80th

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anniversary of D Day will discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

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I'm Rich Lowry and I'm joined as always by the right Honorable Charles C. W. Cook, Madeline

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Maddie Kearns, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brandon Doherty, you are of course listening to a National View podcast or sponsors this episode,

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I said anything.

0:54.7

So, MBD, we've had some more concerns

0:57.4

about the president's cognitive state.

1:00.5

He had a big interview with Time magazine that is not the kind of interview someone who's senile does. He was cogent through most of it, but also not particularly coherent during parts of it and this came in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal report

1:18.1

about people in private having concerns about Biden's mental state?

1:23.0

What do you make of it?

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Well, this is his issue.

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I mean, this is, I think, the number one issue that he faces as an incumbent is the fitness question.

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You know, there's been, it's associated with competence of the administration

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and it has been since the withdrawal from Afghanistan when you know he took an enormous pull hit on

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competence and then ever since then the age issue has dogged him and it's still dogs him and it's still this kind of hold

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your breath moment before every major public appearance there's this extra you

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