Let us be blunt: Joe Biden has a problem.

It didn’t begin with his poor performance at the CNN presidential debate – though many claim otherwise. It actually began when Biden took office. From the beginning, the president has been inaccessible to the press. His press staff often fails to return reporters’ phone calls, emails, texts or other attempts at communication. I tried the Bat-Signal once and that didn’t work either. The mostly young press staff has virtually no experience to speak of and definitely has no press experience. Finally, the president has refused for more than three years to visit the White House Brady Briefing Room.

This has all brought us to a point where those who believe Biden to be decrepit or suffering from dementia may have a valid argument. We haven’t seen the president enough to decide for ourselves. So, he has no one to blame for the conjecture about his mental health other than himself.

There are those who often say that the president’s job doesn’t include showing up to talk to the press. “He’s busy doing his job.” It’s the same argument I heard during the Ronald Reagan administration and the Donald Trump administration. It was wrong then and wrong now. Essential to the modern presidency is being transparent, so we don’t end up like communist China or the former Soviet Union where the government is able to hide potentially serious conditions of the leader from the public. Thus the president needs to show up from time to time and take unscripted and previously unknown questions from the public’s representatives: reporters.

He hasn’t and questions remain. To that point, 84-year-old former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday, admitted that while Biden has continuously said he’s staying in the race, time isn’t on his side to change his mind – not if the Democrats hope to rally and defeat Trump in the fall.

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"It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short . . .he’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision. Not me," she said.

Silly me, I thought he’d already decided to stay in the race. He said only God himself could convince him to bow out. Asked if she wants him to run, Pelosi said cryptically, "I want him to do whatever he decides to do, and that’s — that’s the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go with."

Well, again, since he’s already decided to stay I guess we’re going with it.

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