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This column recently noted the new story about Joe Biden’s cognitive challenges that former Vice President Kamala Harris is selling as she prepares a speaking tour and book launch. The challenge for Biden administration officials is to come up with explanations that acknowledge the obvious facts they were unwilling to concede in 2024 but without accepting any blame or divulging any new information that would help answer the question of who was running the country prior to Jan. 20, 2025. Ms. Harris continues to make the
dubious assertion that Mr. Biden was “able to discharge the duties of president” but now also concedes that his decision to run again “wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition… It should have been more than a personal decision.” Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has decided to sing an accompanying tune—admitting now what he was unwilling to say when it mattered, lamenting the Biden decision and presenting himself as powerless to do anything about it. Here’s an excerpt of the transcript from Sunday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the
Press”: KRISTEN WELKER: … I have to ask you about this new book, Vice President Kamala Harris, we are starting to see some excerpts. She writes about President Biden’s decision to run for reelection and she says this, quote, “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision, we all said that like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.” You were in the president’s cabinet, of course. Do you believe it was recklessness for President Biden’s inner circle not to intervene sooner?
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