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no_hypocrisy

(46,181 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 06:59 PM Feb 9

I don't get it.

How could a special prosecutor make a diagnosis of age-related forgetfulness without a degree in psychiatry? How is his opinion credible?

And when Joe Biden left D.C., it was 2017, seven years ago. Can you remember specific details in your life from seven years ago? I mean lots of specifics. And he wasn't 80-something eight years ago. He was younger than Trump is today.

I recognize a hit. My own sister asked me if I was "all right . . . . mentally" last year. And she's been telling people I have Alzheimer's at age 66. She has a BA in French versus my three degrees, culminating with a J.D. and a law license. See where I'm going?

Age has its benefits of more education and experience.

If Joe Biden has deficits because of his memory, and the economy is doing this well, OK then. He has staff. He has advisors. He's not doing this alone.

Wake up!

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The Unmitigated Gall

(3,830 posts)
2. You're right, IMO.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:08 PM
Feb 9

Hur's critique of Biden takes him WILDLY outside the scope of his expertise. Would it have been politically unwise for Garland to have edited these professionally unqualified passages? Maybe. What we have now is a shit-show of an unprofessional, biased report that veers off the path of fact and cheapens the whole institution of independent counsel, and by extension the DOJ itself.

Then again, repukes wreck everyhting they get their grubby hands on.

llmart

(15,552 posts)
10. And what's left out of all the media hysteria...
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 09:23 PM
Feb 9

is the fact that they concluded that Biden did nothing wrong with the documents. No, all we're going to hear is how he couldn't remember what year his son died.

Silent Type

(2,939 posts)
3. I'll take a comatose Biden to trump, every time. But I suspect
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:12 PM
Feb 9

we’ll lose a few votes over this from the 5% or so of voters who will decide the election. The lost votes will be people just not voting for Prez.

Ain’t right, but the Report happened. Hur did specifically say that what trump did with records was a lot worse. But, the photo of records in the garage was a bit shocking, did not realize it was that many records.

Unfortunately, I don’t think Biden helped himself last night, although I get why he responded.

brush

(53,841 posts)
6. It was a hit job pure and simple by a rethug mole allowed to stay in the DOJ by Garland.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:16 PM
Feb 9

Garland should not have let that report be released with the right wing editorializing about Biden's memory lapses etc.

The Garland appointment has not turned out well except for the many arrests and judgements against the mostly small fry J6 Capitol attackers.

Meanwhile, none of the big wig organizers of J6, including trump, have not been tried.

Attilatheblond

(2,201 posts)
7. That hack prosecutor who made a diagnosis of age-related forgetfulness
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:16 PM
Feb 9

may well have been instructed, by someone with a degree just how to hit Biden in the gut to gain a talking point the GOP would (and have since) jump on.

They have NOTHING to run on themselves. They KNOW Trump is a loser, criminal maniac who only wants the presidency because all his crimes have come home and he needs power to stay out of prison. Some of them are guilty of various, a-hem, poor choices and need pardons. So they have to pull out the stops to try and destroy one of the most honest men to walk the halls of government.

They will do anything to destroy the president who actually cares about ALL of us and knows how to put together a team who fights for us. They just cannot stand up against Biden on their own merits so they tear him down. And they use a lot of think tank pros to direct their efforts.

Irish_Dem

(47,375 posts)
9. He does not have the training or appropriate license to make a clinical diagnosis.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:33 PM
Feb 9

Or make mental status comments.

He did no valid testing and has no idea what he is talking about.

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