Joe Biden sees dead people. After Thursday night’s eyebrow-raising press conference‚ some believe the president sees a dead political career. “And then Helmut Kohl turned to me‚” he told donors this week in New York regarding a conversation about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot‚ “and said‚ ‘What would you say‚ Mr. President‚ if you picked up the London Times and learned that 1‚000 people had broken down the doors of the British parliament‚ killed some bobbies on the way in‚ to deny the prime minister to take office.” The former German chancellor‚ a leader contemporaneous with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher‚ died in 2017 — three and a half years before Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Right-wing pundits seize on the Kohlversation to caricature Joe Biden as demented. Their biases compel them to exclude the possibility that the president possesses profound gifts of necromancy. “I sat down and I said‚ ‘America’s back‚’” President Joe Biden said at the beginning of the week of a G7 meeting that occurred shortly after his inauguration. “And Mitterrand from Germany — I mean from France — looked at me and said‚ ‘Well‚ how long are you back for?’” Mitterrand died before George Burns and Claudette Colbert did in 1996. The president’s votaries‚ as eager to dismiss this as a mundane mistake the way his enemies spotlight it as proof of senility‚ claim he meant to say “Macron” and not “Mitterrand.” Does there not exist an equal chance that he meant Charles de Gaulle or King Lothair? After all‚ conjuring from the spiritual to the temporal plane requires no more power to reach back to the 9th century as it does to the 20th. If AI can resurrect George Carlin‚ why can’t JB bring back Francois Mitterrand? It’s not as though the first evidence of the president communicating with those long in the grave occurred this week. Biden repeatedly shared the story of Angelo Negri‚ a longtime Amtrak employee‚ who told him that he had traveled more miles on the rail service than on Air Force Two. CNN cynically pointed out‚ “Negri had been dead for more than a year — and had been retired for more than two decades — before the earliest moment they could conceivably have had the supposed conversation Biden keeps describing.” Last week‚ the president‚ in attempting to empathize with the families of soldiers killed by drone strikes in the Middle East‚ informed them that his son died there‚ too. “My son spent a year in Iraq‚” he explained. “That’s how I lost him.” Pedantic pundits emphasize that Beau Biden died in Bethesda and not Bagdad‚ and six years after he last stepped foot in Iraq. But a thaumaturge able to consult 28-years-dead world leaders surely also boasts the wizardry to alter the dates and places of death. Special Counsel Robert Hur‚ an expert on law and not sorcery‚ described him as “a sympathetic‚ well-meaning‚ elderly man with a poor memory.” He claims Biden did not recall when his son Beau Biden died. He implied that his age‚ rather than his supernatural capabilities‚ led to this confusion. The president naturally reacted with extreme umbrage Thursday night. He even recalled the first two words of the church that hosted the funeral — Our Lady of Something or Other — to demonstrate his memory. Joe Biden’s right-wing critics ignore that this man possesses great powers‚ and not just under the Constitution. He absorbed Neil Kinnock’s life story as his own the way the pod people took over Leonard Nimoy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and transformed his collegiate and law school achievements like Matthew Broderick improved his grades in WarGames. Jaded partisans dismiss Biden as the dumbest or most dishonest president. Cannot Democrats and Republicans come together and concede him the title of most magical president? And just as the audience of a David Blaine or a Murray SawChuck cannot usually explain what they just saw‚ the American people rarely understand what they just heard from the president. Virtuosos of his level never tell their secrets. It’s for us to wonder‚ not comprehend. To the great question asked in 1965 by the Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian‚ the president’s acolytes answer in the affirmative; his detractors‚ in the negative. The latter stance‚ belief that the leader of the free world merely thinks that he converses with long dead people‚ seems too horrific an alternative to embrace; the former‚ in the words of The X-Files‚ I want to believe. Joseph Robinette Biden‚ who resembles an elderly Haley Joel Osment‚ possesses a gift. Can we as a people stop expressing our jealousy of his abilities as a psychic medium and start appreciating the benefits of his ability to brainstorm with Hammurabi‚ Queen Elizabeth‚ and Metternich? The post Joe Biden: I See Dead People appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.