Debate Debacle

I have watched and been involved in numerous presidential debates. I even participated in six presidential primary debates. In all that time, I have never seen anything close to Joe Biden’s failure last night.

Biden went into this debate with the American people deeply concerned about his age and his physical and mental acuity. Far from reassuring anyone, he confirmed everyone’s fears about his condition.

Even with the enormous benefit of very low expectations, Biden left his party, the nation, and the world shocked and stunned.

No one will talk again about Richard Nixon’s five o’clock shadow, Rick Perry’s “oops” moment, or Gerald Ford’s suggestion that Poland was not under Soviet domination in the 1970s.

The debate had just started when Biden was mumbling his way through a question about the economy. Suddenly, he seemed to lose his train of thought, froze for several seconds, and then declared, “We finally beat Medicare.”

At another point in the debate, Biden bizarrely said that women were being raped by their sisters.

And that’s just a very small sample.

Not surprisingly, Biden’s surrogates quickly retreated from the post-debate press room in order to avoid having to defend Biden’s performance or explain his incoherent remarks.

Even liberal CNN viewers overwhelmingly said that Donald Trump won the debate – 67% to 33%.