It's Thursday, August 8, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Oh, by the way, Joe Biden is still president of the United States.

It is interesting, and it's a phenomenon of our political experience that given the events of the last several weeks,

Joe Biden has basically fallen off the headlines, and by that I mean he has

literally fallen off the headlines. You look at several editions of the

nation's most influential newspapers in recent days,

the President of the United States is not on page one.

And that's pretty much indicative of the way Joe Biden has now been basically dismissed from current conversation.

Now that's not entirely unusual when it comes to a president who's not running for re-election,

especially by the time you get to this point in a presidential election cycle,

everyone's basically talking about those who are running,

not the one who is not.

But in this case, of course, there's more to it because of the

rather embarrassing way that Joe Biden left the 2024 presidential campaign.

More or less not of his own volition. He was pushed out by his own party and

undecorously so he was also in a position in which he was basically being

dismissed because he was no longer believed to be capable of running a campaign.

But if you can't run a campaign, you certainly can't run the White House.

But we also now know President Biden hadn't been running many things for quite a long time.

Pretty much encapsulating the situation with President Biden.

Kimberly Strassal, columnist for the Wall Street Journal wrote an article entitled

Biden forgotten but not gone. You see what she did there. The reality is that he

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