{"id":74915,"date":"2020-08-04T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T12:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74915"},"modified":"2020-08-04T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T12:42:38","slug":"slither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74915","title":{"rendered":"Slither"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I take no joy in observing Joe Biden seems to be slipping into dementia. I’ve got family suffering from one degree of senile dementia or another – if you need to know the details, you already do – and it’s a horrible thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there needs to be a reckoning for the elder abusers propping him up in this run for the Presidency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But fear not. To his biggest, most powerful supporters, dementia isn’t the problem. The system is! It’s time to scrap the debates<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not, of course, because of the candidate’s mental state, nosireebob:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, by the way, isn\u2019t written out of any concern that Donald Trump will prevail over Joe Biden in the debates; Mr. Biden has done just fine in a long string of such contests. The point is that \u201cwinning\u201d a debate, however assessed, should be irrelevant, as are the debates themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Palin – derided as an anti-intellectual joke by the usual suspects these days – fought Biden to (I’ll be charitable) a standstill in 2008<\/a>, when nobody was attacking his mental state. Ethics, yes – acuity, no. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump vs. Biden would be a little like Mohammed Ali vs. Jerry Cooney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a bald-faced evasion. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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