Timothy Birdnow

Biden spent a generation as a U.S. Senator, meaning he never actually did anything or ran anything. He had staff to write speeches and tell him his policy positions, and he took all the credit. Now he's in the driver's seat and never learned to drive. Worse, he's too old to drive and shouldn't have a license.

It was back in the 19th century that Oscar Wilde scandalized much of Britain by deeming homosexuality "the love that dares not speaks its name.” These days, that might be said of heterosexuality.

But kidding (or not kidding) aside, over generations some things become spoken that were never discussed before. This is largely, although not always, a good thing.

One subject that was for the most part off limits until recently was the mental fitness of a president, especially in the seriously clinical/psychological sense. People have been calling their political opponents "idiots,” "morons,” and such from time immemorial, but it took the arrival of Donald Trump for his opponents to demand "scientific proof” of a president’s competence.

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