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He should have announced he was going to be a 1 term president a year prior and gave a chance to find a better Democrat candidate. He's senile and hardly able to run the country. No one over 70 should be president. No one over 70 should be in any office or judicial position. Our country shouldn't be ran by the nearly dead. Even 8f some of them like Sanders are great.
He announced he was going to be a one term president when he was running for that first term. (I know a campaign promise isn't an announcement, but it was supposed to be common knowledge before he changed his mind.)
That's not really true, unless you can find better sources for it than I found.
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2019-12-11/joe-biden-suggests-he-would-only-serve-one-term-if-elected-president
That article quotes Biden staffers who are attributing quotes to him. I must have misremembered him stating as much directly, idk. Fuck him either way.
The reality is his personal mental acumen is very, very irrelevant if he's surrounded himself with trusted advisors who are competent. That being said, you can't show up to a debate and look like you're 200 years old and have no idea what planet you're on.
That might be the case if he had surrounded himself with competent advisors.
The US's only chance at starting to get better will have to have a leader and not a puppet. Being surrounded with politicians in your trust will keep things running, but just keep pumping out more of the same shit we have had.