Many of the complaints I hear about Biden have to do with his age. They range from “It’s time for someone new” to blatant agism.
You know what? GTF over it. Seriously. You know what we get from Biden being old? A president who knows how to GET SHIT DONE. He doesn’t need his ego stroked. He isn’t interested in making a name for himself. He has zero Fs to give about what you think of him.
Biden came out of retirement because he knew he could beat Trump (which he did) and he knew he could bring America back STRONGER than ever. And he did just that. In the words of David Rothkopf of Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Is Old. Get Over It.
The oldest president ever is in better health than many presidents, and has greater medical and wellness resources than all of them.
His handling of difficult foreign policy challenges puts him in the first tier of U.S. presidents on that front. Did he stumble over his words occasionally? Yes, but he used to do that when he was much younger. George W. Bush did it when he was president and he was 54 when he took office. All people do it.
The reality is, Joe Biden’s age has been an asset so far. His experience has enabled him to advance an ambitious domestic agenda and to revitalize the world’s most important alliance in ways many thought would be impossible.
Furthermore, if those concerned about Biden’s age were honest, they would acknowledge that from a health perspective, thus far Joe Biden is much fitter and showing far fewer limitations than many of his predecessors.
Donald Trump, nearly as old and obese, couldn’t walk down a ramp without assistance and had trouble drinking from a glass of water. A conversation with a friend who used to serve in the Obama White House indicated staffers close to him were concerned about the dangers associated with President Obama’s smoking. (Genetics matter too. Obama’s father was 48 when he died, his mother was 52 when she passed.)
Ronald Reagan was weakened by the assassination attempt on him and was, according to reports of his own cabinet members and to observations of medical professionals, in decline during his last years in office. Richard Nixon drank to excess at times and took narcotics to sleep, a bad combination. Lyndon Johnson, chain smoker, had his first heart attack when he was 47. It is thought he had five such cardiac incidents including the one that killed him, five years after he left office, at age 65.
John F. Kennedy, whose assassination proved that age and actuarial tables are not always useful ways to predict the longevity of presidents, also concealed his own serious illnesses. As a PBS investigation into his health put it, “long before he died at age 46, Kennedy was a very sick man.”
Want to watch him in action? Here is a minute of Biden, showing what he can still do.
Biden has gotten more done than Presidents who were decades younger.
Is there still more work to be done? 100%! Lots more work. But Biden did more than many people guessed could be done. And he deserves a lot of credit. AND he deserves to be re-elected.
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