And so it has come to pass.

United States President Joe Biden has dropped out of this year’s presidential race, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats who feared that his train wreck of a performance in the June presidential debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump – among other episodes – would render the octogenarian less than appealing to the US electorate.

So much for Biden’s decree that only the “Lord Almighty” could convince him to withdraw from the race. Or maybe the Lord had a hand in it, after all.

To be sure, Biden’s Democratic colleagues did have a point – not that Trump or any other option, Republican or Democrat, is preferable in a committed plutocracy where ballot choices generally range from the transparently sociopathic to the less transparently so.

But Biden’s recent verbal gaffes – including such assertions as that he is the “first Black woman to serve with a Black president” in the US – did suggest that he was perhaps not properly positioned to continue as the commander of the global superpower, linguistically or otherwise.

Objectively speaking, too, his function during the past nine months........

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