JOE BIDEN\u2019S PERFORMANCE at Thursday\u2019s televised debate was historic\u2014but not in the way he wanted. His political career ended Thursday night. It was that bad.
After five full days of rest and preparation, what we saw Thursday was the best the president could muster. By all accounts, which includes those from the president\u2019s supporters in the Democratic Party and the media, this was the worst performance by an American presidential candidate since the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960.
We say this with no joy. Watching President Biden\u2019s cognitive decline is uncomfortable. His family and those nearest him should never have allowed Biden to run for president in 2020. Thursday\u2019s humiliation amounts to elder abuse. The president should, as left-leaning pundits in the media now agree, bow out of the race. But it appears, based on reports Friday, that Joe Biden is determined to try to win a second term. The question is whether the Democratic National Committee will go along with Biden\u2019s wish, which almost assures a second Trump administration, or push Biden out in favor of another candidate.
Then the question becomes who takes Biden\u2019s place. No leading Democrat thinks Vice President Kamala Harris has a chance to win in November. How do they replace her without a rebellion in the party at passing over a woman of color, especially the vice president? Who\u2019s next in line? Gavin Newsom, who\u2019s presiding over a dysfunctional California? J. B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, a state that\u2019s on the verge of bankruptcy? Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, whose tyrannical pandemic policies appeal only to the farthest left? Would Michelle Obama give up her $14 million mansion in Martha\u2019s Vineyard to move back into the White House? Why? She\u2019s got more influence now than she would as president.
Get your popcorn. The next four months will be historic. But remember\u2014the Great Commission is still our prime directive.
Also: The white buffalo calf in Yellowstone Park has been missing since early June and park rangers don\u2019t know if it\u2019s still alive; H5N1 (avian flu) shows up in San Francisco\u2019s wastewater, but no one is sure why; and \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic partners with The Gregory Brothers on a wonderful debate satire, \u201cDeja Vu (But Worse).\u201d Click here: https://youtu.be/6fNWHbnIn0g?si=az2SuAKjxdpNEzIf.
Derek\u2019s presentations from last weekend at His Call Ministries: