Frailty explains what is happening to President Biden
Biden had to apologize for his late State of the Union speech: Where are you? Where do you stand, what do you do? How do you feel?
Last week President Biden tried to clarify and alleviate concerns about his capacity to remain in the most important job in the world. He said after the debate that he is not a young man. “I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.” But, the president went on, “I know, like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up.”
He was asking Americans to see themselves in him, and to know who he really is, a person who is ambitious, committed and confident in himself, who may suffer from weakness, but who has the resilience to rise to the occasion.
A geriatrician is a doctor who cares for older adults. I watched the debate and saw the president trying to stand up for himself and his record but who seemed to have retreated since the State of the Union address he gave a few months earlier.
US President Joe Biden, in his first presidential debate, said, “I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to.” “I don’t debate as well as I used to. I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as easily as I used to,” he added. “When you get knocked down, you get back up,” Biden further said.