Invalid Biden imperils us all

If Joe Biden's family cared about him, they'd make him step down instead of exploiting him as a meal ticket. 

Recent days brought numerous accounts of his advanced "cognitive decline," including confusing world leaders with one another, claiming to have had contemporary converations with long-deceased figures, and inability to recall the year of son Beau's tragic demise and in what years he served as vice-president.

Those examples assume arrangement alongside sorry ones already documented, not least of which is his battle with finding his way off of stages; for that, he's frequently assisted by watchful staffers.

Following Biden's latest error-ridden press conference, Donald Trump accurately observed "He's falling apart big time!"

Special Counsel Robert Hur recently considered Biden's years-old habit of illegally retaining classified documents. Though he concluded the allegations were meritorious, Hur (bizarrely) elected against charging the president. 

"We have considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," Hur's report said, per a Breitbart account.

Also from Breitbart: "Hur's report is riddled with examples and assessments that Biden's mental faculties have deteriorated, saying 'Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations.'"

No disrespect for the mentally diminished is intended here. Nor does the present author relish being acidic. 

Like millions of American families, mine was sadly touched by a parent's related plight. My mother, Jean Russell Larson, authored numerous childrens' books as well as poetic and other writings for adult readers. Her own dire medical situation made this issue real for me in a tortuous way. Because of that experience, I regard sufferers with compassion and understanding.

But the American presidency is the most powerful institution in the world. Those in that office wield tremendous authority. They conduct international affairs, enter into trade and other treaties, head our country's military, attend to the general welfare, request congressional authorization for warfare, and even access nuclear codes.

Such awesome responsibilty requires intellectual lucidity. It is not wise to entrust authority of that magnitude to a man so evidently wandering in the fog of compromised capacity.

Primary blame must be accorded family members who permit this abusive spectacle, and Democrat Party operatives manipulating invalid Biden for contemptible purposes. Voters aware of his obvious handicap but who still enable that dirty business share moral culpability.

Because of them, we all live in peril.