There is a heightened urgency to Biden's inaugural speech, as he confronts multiple crises and seeks to bridge a deep political divide.
Joe Biden paces as he dictates long portions of his speeches to aides, spinning out thoughts that quickly pile into six, seven or eight paragraphs of copy, only to later be scrapped.
On the 2020 campaign trail, he’d keep groups of supporters waiting inside while he’d hole up in a black car with aides, refining lines of his prepared remarks.
Revisions go up to crunch time; it isn’t uncommon for a staffer to be scurrying to the teleprompter with a flash drive just before an event is to begin.
For higher-profile remarks, he’d obsessively rehearse portions until he committed them to memory.
And at times through the various iterations of outlining remarks, Biden could grow downright ornery.
“I would never say this,” Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year.
“Where did you get this from?’” The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.
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WNU Editor: Wow! It looks like the speech writers are now leaking to the press what they are going through when it comes to writing a speech for President Biden.
Long time readers of this blog know that I have been pointing out President Biden's mental decline since last year. I unfortunately have a lot of experience knowing the signs and symptoms of dementia, dealing first with my father who suffered from this when he had his stroke years ago, meeting and knowing people where my father was hospitalized who were suffering from dementia, and now with my mother.
In the case of President Biden, one only has to look at the Vice-Presidential debate in 2012 between Biden and Ryan, and compare. Then Vice-President Biden was sharp, articulate, and totally dominated the debate (link here to the debate). Flash forward to yesterday's Covid-19 announcement by President Biden (link here), it was painful to watch seeing President Biden struggling after only 10 minutes.
The contrast in 8 years is incredible, but not surprising to those who have first hand experience in dealing with loved ones who have suffered and/or are suffering from this disease.
