In response to questions about his mental and physical fitness, Biden told his critics, “Watch me.” He’s invited us to watch and judge his performance. What is your conclusion? Share your prayers in the comments.

Analysis. From The Washington Stand. In the eyes of the Biden administration, the summer of 2022 has been going so well that it merited a concert: a performance by James Taylor on the South Lawn of the White House last week. But someone at the White House forgot to send the celebratory memo to the American people.

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As President Biden painted a rosy picture of how well things have been going under his tenure to “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley on Sunday, food prices refuse to budge from levels that are 11% more than they were a year ago, as overall inflation continues to hover around the highest level in 40 years. Towns along the southern border continue to be inundated with a record five million illegal immigrants in the 18 months since Biden took office due to his open border policies. Tensions with two of the world’s largest superpowers, Russia and China, continue to simmer largely due to the administration’s momentously disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Biden also declared to Pelley that “the pandemic is over.” But as the National Review’s Charles Cooke has pointed out, this declaration has huge ramifications for the legality of Biden’s recent “decision to transfer up to a trillion dollars in student-loan debt to taxpayers without congressional approval.” …

But what Biden failed to mention was the most obvious: that his fiscal policies have had a direct effect on increasing inflation. A report released in March from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco stated that Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package likely “rais[ed] inflation about 3 percentage points by the end of 2021.”

When Pelley asked the president if “U.S. forces … would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion,” Biden responded with a flat, “Yes,” with a slightly vacant look in his eyes. For the second time since May, the White House was forced to walk back Biden’s statement by saying that U.S. policy “hasn’t changed” regarding Taiwan.

Pelley went on to ask Biden about widespread worries of his fitness to be the leader of the free world at age of 79: “Some people ask whether you are fit for the job, and when you hear that, I wonder what you think?” Biden responded, “Watch me. Honest to God, that’s all I think. Watch me.” It’s not hard to find a multitude of examples where we can indeed “watch” what appear to be significant declines in the cognitive fitness of a man who would be 82 if he runs for president again in 2024. …

This latest interview clearly shows that we have a president who is not only out of touch with the everyday concerns of the American people, but also dangerously out of his depth when it comes to foreign affairs. … Let us pray for President Biden, that he will have a conversion of heart and that he will cease and reverse the policies that have and continue to do such grave harm to America.

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(Excerpt from The Washington Stand. Photo Credit: Getty Images)