Presidential Fitness & Political Hypocrisy

Duration: 1:11:27 | Recorded on January 4, 2025S2E2 - The brothers launch today's episode with a discussion of a Wall Street Journal article detailing President Biden's declining mental acuity and the efforts to conceal it. They then explore the implications of this information, contrasting the situations with Biden and Trump, and debating whether age-related decline should impact a president's performance. The discussion takes a heated turn around the idea that personal morality is an important aspect of presidential leadership, but it is difficult to measure or come to agreement about, and people will differ on what constitutes acceptable morality and behavior in a president. The brothers grapple with their differing views, and acknowledge the hypocrisy of some who seem willing to overlook moral failings when they agree with the president’s policies.Show Notes:Featured Bourbon:Michter's US 1 Kentucky Straight BourbonFeatured Rum:Quackenbush Amber RumHow the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge (Wall Street Journal)Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Wikipedia)Monica Lewinski (Wikipedia)Presidential Precedents (www.mountvernon.org)The first U.S. president set his own term limit (it.usembassy.gov)Reckoning with Structural Racism in Research: LBJ’s Legacy and Urban’s Next 50 (www.urban.org)