Stalking horse politics

Joe Biden is suffering as his cancer spreads, and I take no pleasure in that, but, like his senility, his handlers were fully aware he had advanced prostate cancer long before he was put to running for a second term. Clearly, the idea all along was to get hi re-elected and then replaced by the unelectable Kamallawalla Ding Dong. We’ve all known this for at least the past two years, but it’s still galling to know it and yet still have to listen to Democrats wailing about Trump’s “threat to Democracy”.

Here's the thing about prostate cancer screening: a PSA blood test is a standard part of any routine physical for men of a certain age. It's not exotic. It's not hard to order.

Does anyone seriously believe the president of the United States, a man in his eighties surrounded by a full medical team, wasn't being screened for one of the most common cancers in older men? If Biden had cancer developing while he sat in the Oval Office, there are only two explanations. Either his doctors missed it, which would be staggering incompetence for a team charged with monitoring the health of the most powerful autopen in the world, or the Bidens knew and weren’t going to reveal the diagnosis until after the election.

In fact, last year, medical ethicist and former Obama health advisor Dr. Zeke Emanuel strongly implied that Biden's prostate cancer likely developed years before the public was told. He also said that he believes that the Biden White House would almost certainly have caught it while he was still in office.

Jill Biden, 75, may have answered that question without meaning to. She recently told radio host Kelly Ripa that while the Bidens were still living in the White House, she noticed her husband getting up to use the bathroom as often as seven times a night. She said she reported it to White House physicians at the time and believed they had resolved it. No one can honestly believe a medical team informed of that symptom, in a man Biden's age, didn't think to run a PSA test. They had to know. Even that story is a change from the original story. Last year we were told that Joe Biden had been diagnosed only after experiencing symptoms "in recent weeks." Now she's describing well-known warning signs she observed a full year before they left office.