Abcarian: Chill out, my fellow Americans. Your president isn't cognitively impaired
Did he trip over his feet? Did he make an indefensible gaffe? No, my fellow Americans, he did not.
I admit, the bar was set in a rather bizarre place for President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Thursday. He is, after all, the oldest American president. And though he is only four years older than his presumed November opponent, former President Trump, 77, the hysteria about Biden’s age has become an abiding feature of the national political debate.
Take a chill pill, people.
Our 81-year-old commander in chief was in fine form. His speech, which lasted a little over an hour, was many things: a serious accounting of the country’s status at home and in the world, a blueprint for a second Biden administration and a campaign speech that included repeated verbal jousting with his Republican hecklers.
What it was not: the ramblings of “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” which was how special counsel Robert Hur imagined the president would present himself to a jury if he were to be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents.
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