Source: Common Dreams
by Richard Eskow
“‘Original Sin’ was an odd title choice for the recent book, co-authored by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and subtitled ‘President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and his Disastrous Decision to Run Again.’ The book confirms long-standing suspicions about former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, its handling by Biden’s inner circle, and the Democratic Party leadership’s attempts to conceal it. These may be sins, but they’re hardly ‘original.’ The earliest confirmed cover-up of presidential incapacity goes back over a century, to President Woodrow Wilson’s 1919 stroke. Ronald Reagan’s aides were so concerned about his inattentiveness, competence, and mood that they proposed invoking the 25th Amendment. … In the long arc of history, political cover-ups and lies are relatively venal sins. But genocide is a mortal sin, the worst imaginable.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-genocide-democrats