Hollywood and Obama should be judged for covering up Joe Bidens frailty

One year ago this month, attendees packed the 7,100 seats inside the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles to watch a parade of A-list celebrities — George Clooney! Julia Roberts! Barbra Streisand! — unite in a common goal: to raise more money for President Biden’s re-election campaign than had ever before been tallied for a single fundraising event.By that standard the evening was a smashing success: Over $30 million, a record, was raised.“How important the event was to his re-election bid could be seen,” the Associated Press reported, “in Biden’s decision to fly through the night across nine time zones, from the G7 summit in southern Italy to Southern California, to attend.”Nothing was left to chance.

Outside the Peacock, riot police ringed the Gaza protesters; inside, the biggest weapon was rolled out.Former President Barack Obama appeared onstage with his old No.

2, the pair of presidents interviewed by the ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.Their recurring theme: A second Trump presidency would ruin America.Obama called the current moment “a by-product of 2016,” when, he said, “a whole bunch of folks .

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.Hopefully, we have learned our lesson, because these elections matter.” When Roe v.

Wade came up, and the audience hissed, Obama scolded them: “Don’t hiss; vote.”Still sharp, still charming, the familiar smile still beguiling, the forty-fourth president deployed all his gifts to urge the high rollers at the Peacock — and by extension, all Americans — to support Biden with money and votes: the most precious commodities a civic-minded American can be asked to invest.The only problem was: Biden.At the event’s end, as he and Obama waved goodbye with Kimmel, the incumbent became catatonic, just as he had five days earlier, at a Juneteenth concert at the White House.

His whole body froze, as if immobilized by a science-fiction ray-gun.Obama had to guide his friend, gently but firmly, off the stage.As the Washi...