Was President Biden’s poor performance during the presidential debate a Divine Intervention?

    I closely followed CNN’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s performance during the recent debate against Donald Trump. I heard CNN show hosts say what they think. I heard CNN guests say what they think. I heard President Biden give his take on it, including he had a cold, he felt bad, he had jet lag from his trip to Europe, he was exhausted, he wasn’t on top of his game, he didn’t fully understand how the microphones worked. And, at 81, he has the stamina for 4 more years in the White House. A CNN host said Biden had rested up for several days at Camp David before the debate. Biden told a CNN host that he would not take a cognitive test and release the results, because he takes a cognitive test every day at his job, as president. Biden said he does not believe that since the debate, he is behind in the polls, which show he is behind.

    As in the debate, I had to strain to hear what Biden said on CNN. I did not have to strain to hear what the CNN hosts or other guests said about Biden, who looked and sounded to me like he needed oxygen, as he did  during the debate. I didn’t see anything different from when he was at the debate and when he was on CNN after the debate, other than he didn’t have a 20 second lapse of memory on CNN, but he was only on CNN for a few moments.

    81, I wonder if I have the stamina to get me to next week? But I”m not the president, and I’m not on the November ballot. I”m a mystic, and because of that, I see things very differently. 

    Consider this text from a childhood friend yesterday, who calls Donald Trump the Orange Turd, and consider my response and where it went from there.

Him

So, as I understand it, Prez Biden can now declare the OT a traitor, declare him guilty of a sedition and order a military firing squad to execute him and be immune from such an an action. Once this is done Prez Biden will no longer need to run for a second term to save the country from the OT and his Klan, so he will drop out, and we can have likely the most interesting presidential race for the next 4 months the country has seen. Seems simple to me.

Me

From news reports I read, SCOTUs 6-3 majority INVITED Biden to order Trump executed :-), but I doubt US Military, FBI, Secret Service would do it. But maybe the CIA? I think Biden should drop out. Will he?

Him

He ran because he thought he was the only one who could be OT, but the debate made it look like he is the only won who can’t! 

Me

Consider America doesn’t need and God doesn’t want a Gaza massive war crimes criminal in the White House, and Biden’s debate performance was a Divine Intervention.

    In ABC News tonight, after I wrote the above: 

Biden dismisses concerns about fitness, would drop out if 'Lord Almighty' told him

President Joe Biden, in an exclusive interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, acknowledged last week's debate was a "bad episode" but pushed back strongly against broader questions about his age and mental fitness.

Stephanopoulos, over the course of 22 minutes, pressed Biden repeatedly not only on his debate performance against Donald Trump but also on reports that his lapses have become increasingly common these past few months -- and on what he would be willing to do to reassure the American people.

"Are you the same man today that you were when you took office three-and-a-half years ago?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"In terms of successes, yes," Biden responded. "I also was the guy who put together a peace plan for the Middle East that may be comin' to fruition. I was also the guy that expanded NATO. I was also the guy that grew the economy. All the individual things that were done were ideas I had or I fulfilled. I moved on."

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"Do you dispute that there have been more lapses, especially in the last several months?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"Can I run the 100 in 10 flat? No. But I'm still in good shape," Biden said.

Stephanopoulos followed up, asking, "Are you more frail?"

"No," Biden said, flatly.

Biden's sit-down with ABC News is his first television interview since the June 27 debate. ABC News reached out to Trump to offer him an equivalent interview opportunity, but his team declined.

The interview is part of a push from the White House and the campaign to recalibrate after Biden's halting debate performance left some Democrats panicked about his ability to carry out a grueling reelection campaign and a second term.

Looking ahead to a possible second term, Stephanopoulos said the question on the minds of many Americans is whether Biden would be able to serve effectively. If reelected, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term.

"Do you have the mental and physical capacity to do it for another four years?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"I believe so. I wouldn't be runnin' if I didn't think I did," Biden said. "Look, I'm runnin' again because I think I understand best what has to be done to take this nation to a completely new new level. We're on our way. We're on our way. And, look. The decision recently made by the Supreme Court on immunity, you know, the next President of the United States, it's not just about whether he or she knows what they're doin'.

"It's-- it's-- it's not-- not about a con-- a conglomerate of people making decisions," Biden continued. "It's about the character of the president. The character of the president's gonna determine whether or not this Constitution is employed the right way."

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Stephanopoulos then pressed him, asking if in on a personal level, Biden was being honest with himself about his mental and physical ability to lead for four more years.

"Yes, I am, because, George, the last thing I want to do is not be able to meet that," Biden said. "I think, as some of senior economists and senior foreign policy specialists say, if I stop now, I go down in history as a pretty successful president. No one thought I could get done what we got done."

Biden declined to agree to have an independent medical evaluation that included cognitive tests and share the results with the public.

Biden also repeatedly brushed off recent poll numbers that show him behind Trump both in the general election and in specific swing states, as well as concerns voiced by some Democrats that staying in the race is not in the interest of the party or the country.

"If you can be convinced that you cannot defeat Donald Trump, will you stand down?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"It depends on -- on if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that, I might do that," Biden said.

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