CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – I don’t wish a cancer diagnosis on anyone. I wish Joe Biden was in good health.
His cancer diagnosis raises a serious question, and puts a myth to rest.
The serious question is, “How could this be?” Joe Biden has access to the best doctors in the world. It’s a medical impossibility that from his last check-up to now he’s progressed to Stage Four cancer. He did not become inoperably ill in the last 100 days. Either something was missed, or his diagnosis was much further in the past.
The myth that has come crashing down is the impossibility of Joe Biden serving a second term as President. Mental acuity aside, imagine such a cancer diagnosis becoming public during a second term. The nation would have to wade through medical and treatment updates, as Biden was further diminished as chief executive. Or might Biden have resigned, and give the remainder of his term to Kamala Harris? That would also be a farce, as we now know she could not have won at the ballot box.
Before his diagnosis became public, Biden gave two interviews to salvage his legacy. Both were disasters. Biden again appeared old, tired, and distant. At one point he claimed that his first term was so successful that it was difficult to find issues to campaign on. Obviously, the voters disagreed with his assessment.
A reporter over the weekend suggested that Biden appeared confused and tired at the start of his 2020 campaign. The op-ed noted that during a rally before the South Carolina primary Biden slurred his words and repeatedly said he was in the wrong state. We saw the same thing two years later in Superior, where Biden said he was in Minnesota.
The ‘Restore Joe’s Legacy’ project is over. It is this: He was able to ram some big spending bills through Congress and gave us runaway inflation. He broke faith with the Constitution during the COVID crisis. Otherwise he was a tired, old man in failing health. It’s fair to wonder who was really in charge for those four years.
Chris Conley
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