Today I read a surprising number of snarky comments online about Nancy Pelosi asking President Biden to consider withdrawing as a candidate. The comments all centered on her age.
She is 84, and the President is 81. So people were basically saying that it was the pot calling the kettle black.
But it isn’t that at all. Pelosi is reckoning not with age, but with the President’s performance in the first debate.
As we all saw, his opponent was a ranting snake oil salesman who ignored the moderators’ questions, while managing to say nothing truthful. Debating that kind of shallow blowhard should have been like shooting fish in a barrel. Biden should have wiped the floor with him.
But he didn’t, and that is the issue Pelosi is facing. It has nothing to do with age — it’s about winning — and the stakes are very high.
If your star quarterback suddenly couldn’t throw the ball, you would consider taking him out of the game. That is, if you wanted to win.
And the problem with those people complaining about Pelosi? They’re ageist.