Off the Publisher’s Desk 5-28-25

If your eighty plus you can relate to Biden’s 

problems!

If you are as old as former president Joe Biden you can relate from personal experience his health problem and his mental decline. We all must have seen friends, relatives or neighbor suffer with some sort of brain dysfunction in the declining years of their life.

We should have noticed Biden’s problems a long time ago, even back in 2020 when he was running for president. His problems came to a head last June during he presidential debate with Donald Trump. Attempting to respond to a question, Biden stumbled over his answer and then mumbled a few words. Trump said, “ I don’t know what he said and I don’t think he knows either.”

Apparently he has trouble recognizing close friends and associates.

If you are as close in age to the eighty-year-old Biden, you might relate to some of the medical problems that he has had in his life time.

Back in 1988 he had two brain aneurysms, a blood clot in his lungs. Twenty years ago, he suffered a foot fracture while playing with his dog. I can relate to that, I fell down the icy steps at my back door about twenty years ago and it still bothers me.

He also suffers from irregular heartbeat, acid reflux, has had Covid-19 twice, colon polyp removed, gallbladder removed and a skin lesion removed.

Now he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that left me wondering how long ago did that happen and like many things in the Biden administration, the public was either lied to or not informed.

At his age, some of us can relate to those health problems.

Now, the question is, “Who was running the government? If you watched television news reports, the list of names is growing each day. But my felling is that the auto-pen was in charge.

It spells out clearly in the 25th Amendment of the Constitution what should have happened in this case with Biden. It reads, “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”

The vice President and the cabinet should have taken action to replace Biden early on before we were forced to watch his decline, and someone or group needs to stand up and let us know who was in charge.

Two years ago Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon warned: “The United States has become sort of a laughingstock because of President Joe Biden’s increasing gaffes, and it’s becoming a matter of national security.

“I talk to a lot of people in other countries, and everybody knows that this is not normal. People do age and have some declines, but this is beyond that,” he said.

Carson was Housing and Urban Development secretary in Trump’s first administration, and he was a presidential candidate in 2000.

Thanks for reading!     ~Carlton