Look at it this way.
Joe Biden at 81, is older than both former Presidents Bill Clinton, 77, and Barack Obama, 62.
Donald Trump at 78 is older than both as well.
And both younger men each served eight years, or two terms, as president before leaving the presidential stage.
And both look energized enough to be running for president again were it not for the two-term limit.
Were they able to run the odds are that either one would make short work of Donald Trump.
But the Democrat Party has shifted so far to the left that it is debatable if a moderate politician like Bill Clinton could even win the party nomination these days.
In addition, neither Clinton nor Obama, despite health problems they may have had before or during their presidencies, never lacked the energy to do the job or the star power to stir the country. Biden lacks both.
Trump, unlike Biden, exudes the same kind of energy, which showed during the debate a week ago, a debate in which the whole world watched a listless Biden look lost and confused, which he was.
In addition, neither Clinton, nor Obama (Trump included) never had anyone operate on their brain, as Joe Biden has had, not once, but twice.
And although the brain aneurysm operations on Biden were conducted a long time ago, who knows what effect they may be having on his brain today.
So, it is understandable why Biden refuses to take a cognitive test, including at his last physical. He might fail.
His refusal to be tested came even after Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, who interviewed Biden extensively, determined Biden to be “an elderly man with a poor memory.”
While age 81 is not considered ancient these days, Joe Biden is an old 81, which is why, according to Axios, Biden’s “dependable energy” runs only six hours a day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
No doubt our adversaries in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang took note.
What is disturbing in all of this is how the deceitful mainstream media was finally forced to take notice of Biden’s deteriorating mental and physical condition and drop the lie that he was a vigorous man at the top of his game. He is anything but.
With the whole country watching it is difficult to sugar coat. The man is in trouble, as is the country.
For many Americans who watched the debate it was the first time they could see how Biden’s mental capacity has diminished to the point of no return. He is going to get worse, not better.
Recall how the dishonest mainstream media questioned Trump’s mental stability when he was president but failed to do the same when Biden challenged him for the presidency in 2020. And Trump never had a brain operation.
Back then we few reporters were whistling in the wind when pointing out how the gaffe prone Biden was shielded by the left wing media when it covered up Biden’s brain operations, or what effect they could have on his memory, judgement and ability to put thoughts and words together.
They hated Trump so much (and still do) that they wrecked their profession as they awarded themselves Pulitzer Prizes.
I do not know if Biden’s brain operations have an adverse effect on him today. I am not a neurosurgeon, only a reporter.
But for the record, the public should know that Biden underwent a microsurgical craniotomy on the right side of his brain at Walter Reed Hospital where he was taken in 1988 after passing out in a hotel room following a speech at the University of Rochester. A scan revealed an aneurysm at the base of his brain.
Three months later he was forced to return to the hospital for a second brain aneurysm operation on the other side of his brain.
Do the operations impact his brain today? Who knows?
But if this is the first time you have heard about it, it is understandable. Joe’s friends in the media did not want you to know.
Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@boston herald.com
