PRESIDENT HARRIS: WILL AMERICANS ELECT A DYING PRESIDENT AGAIN?
When Electing A Dying Man, The VP Is EXTRA Important
In early 1943 doctors told President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, that he suffered from congestive heart failure.* They gave him 18 months to live. Medical science was not advanced enough to offer any treatment. The only advise the doctors had to offer FDR was to change his diet.
Nevertheless, FDR ran for re-election in 1944.** Big Media knew FDR was dying. White House staffers knew FDR was dying. FDR’s family knew he was dying. Some of his cabinet members knew FDR was dying. The only Americans who did not know their president was dying were the voters. They did not know they were actually electing his running mate, Harry S. Truman, as president. Oh, and even Ole Harry didn’t know he would soon be president because no one told him FDR was dying. Roosevelt passed away, at age 63, less than three months after his fourth inauguration.* Thus, Big Media & a dishonest administration tricked the voters into electing Truman as president. A dying Republican president would not have been protected like this.
PROTECTING DEMENTED JOE
Big Media has not changed much these last 80 years, has it? As early as 2019 there were signs that Joe Biden, running for the Democrat nomination, had dementia. Hell, THIS American, who had merely taken three “spotting dementia in clients” classes, could spot the signs.^
It was much easier in Roosevelt’s time for the media and the White House to hide the president’s declining health: No television, all video cameras were owned by the media and the still cameras which could get close enough to take FDR’s picture were owned by the media. No doubt news reporters could see his decline, but never reported on it nor questioned his press secretary about it. Look at his photo above, taken during the 1944 election. Does that look like a healthy 62-year-old to you? He looks like he is in his 80s.
Hiding the ill health of a Democrat politician is not so easy in 2023, but Big Media is certainly working hard at it. For four years now, as it became increasingly obvious that Biden’s dementia is getting worse, Big Media continues to pretend that he is a healthy senior citizen. Had they been able to lie about his age, they would have done that, too.
VP HARRIS: A POLITICAL MYSTERY FOR THE AGES
Unlike all past presidential candidates, Joe Biden did not choose his running mate. Progressives/Communists/Marxists left over from the Obama Administration chose Kamala Harris. Why? Knowing that he might be unable to complete his first term, why would they choose such a worthless, vacuous person with no accomplishments to brag about AND, unlike Truman, could not get elected president in her own right?^^
If they wanted a hate-filled black woman there were plenty to choose from. Stacey Abrams, who is still claiming she won the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, leaps to mind. What about Karen Bass? She identifies as black AND, as the new mayor of Los Angeles, has already increased homelessness. Perfect record for a Democrat to run on.
With Kackling Kammie by his side, Biden will get fewer votes from breathing voters in 2024 than if he had a different running mate. Try as they might to pretend that Biden’s brain is not dying, Americans who still have healthy brains know he is not handling presidential duties, and has not made a major decision since he moved into the White House. Even Democrat voters know that. FDR ran for president four times alongside THREE running mates; therefore, switching VPs is not unprecedented. If his handlers & the DNC insist on running the presidential avatar again, there is still time to choose another running mate.
Excellent article, Diane. Just a minor historical point about something you said, from an old timer: I'm sure you do know, but many of your younger readers probably don't know that there was no such thing as recorded video in 1943. Video cameras did exist but they were huge monsters on large carriages and mostly confined to studios. As early as the late 1930s, there was such a thing as broadcast video possible on a very limited basis in the NYC area, but virtually no one had a receiver (tv set!) to view it. So ALL video at that time was LIVE. Film cameras, still and movie, were the ONLY way for anyone to record images in 1943. "Kinescope" was being developed in the 1940s but it was simply a filmed recording of a video image on a monitor screen. Videotape did not exist until the mid-1950s. ALL the television we watched in the 1950s was produced live in a studio as it was viewed. Just to lend some perspective to the limitations of "the media" in Roosevelt's time.
Harris calls herself a Black Woman. She is 1/8 black.