There’s something profoundly unsettling about watching a former president get abandoned on stage like a piece of forgotten luggage. Yet that’s exactly what happened to Joe Biden at Barack Obama’s presidential center opening, and the imagery tells you everything you need to know about the last four years of American leadership.
The whole spectacle began with Jill Biden physically guiding her husband onto the stage. Not a gentle touch on the arm, mind you, but full-on leading him like you’d guide someone who genuinely needs help navigating their surroundings. That alone should have raised alarm bells, but we’re talking about a media establishment that spent years insisting Biden was running marathons in his free time while conducting high-level nuclear negotiations before breakfast.
What came next was even worse. As the ceremony wrapped up, Obama started strutting around the stage, playing air guitar to whatever music was blaring through the speakers. Jill Biden watched him with what looked like approval before following him offstage. Meanwhile, Joe Biden just stood there at the podium, completely alone, wearing the expression of someone trying to remember where they parked their car three hours ago.
He took off his glasses. He stared blankly into the crowd. And according to multiple observers, he appeared to mouth the words, “Where’s my granddaughter?” Then the broadcast feed conveniently cut out, because of course it did. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
This is the same pattern we watched unfold for four years straight. The wandering during public events. The blank stares that lasted just a beat too long. The confused shuffling when the cameras were supposed to have stopped rolling. We saw it happen again and again, yet we were told we were conspiracy theorists for believing our own eyes.
The Democrat Party insisted Biden was sharp as a tack right up until that catastrophic debate with President Trump. Then suddenly, almost overnight, everyone acknowledged what had been obvious all along. He wasn’t fit to run for reelection. The whole facade collapsed in real time, and we all watched it happen.
You know what really gets me about this whole situation? Where was Jill Biden when her husband needed her? She was busy following Obama around like a starstruck fan while Joe stood there looking lost. New York Post columnist Miranda Devine nailed it when she asked why Jill looked so aggravated, like she was surprised her husband got confused on stage again. The woman has made a career out of being the First Lady, enjoying all the VIP treatment and spotlight that comes with it, yet she can’t be bothered to ensure her husband doesn’t get humiliated in public.
That’s not just poor planning. That’s a fundamental failure of basic human decency. The access, the prestige, the fancy events she clearly loves attending, all of that exists because of him. The least she could do is stick around to make sure he gets offstage without incident.
This whole episode happened on the same day The New Yorker published an interview with Hillary Clinton discussing Biden’s decision to run again. The timing feels almost cruel, doesn’t it? Here’s a man who clearly wasn’t up for the job, yet the entire Democratic establishment propped him up, covered for him, and gaslit the American public about his condition.
We’re not talking about minor gaffes or the occasional slip of the tongue. Every politician has those moments. We’re talking about sustained, observable cognitive decline that anyone with eyes could see. And the people closest to him, the ones who should have protected him from this public humiliation, instead used him as a vehicle for their own ambitions.
The conservative movement has always valued honesty and accountability. We believe in calling things what they are, not what we wish them to be. When we watched Biden struggle through his presidency, we didn’t celebrate his difficulties. We mourned what it meant for our country. We worried about who was actually making decisions while the nominal leader of the free world couldn’t remember where his granddaughter went.
This matters beyond partisan politics. It matters because the American people deserved better than being lied to for four years about the mental fitness of their president. It matters because our adversaries around the world were watching the same footage we were, drawing their own conclusions about American strength and resolve.
The Obama Center opening was supposed to be a celebration. Instead, it became yet another reminder of one of the greatest deceptions in modern American political history. And the saddest part? Joe Biden himself is probably the last person who understands just how badly he was used.
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