As Pope Francis addressed the faithful from the window of his Vatican apartment on Sunday, the 86-year-old leader of the Catholic Church wondered aloud if Joe Biden had the “seasoning and maturity” needed to serve another term as President of the United States.
As the Pope put it, “the President is only 80, and a young 80 at that. There’s so much he hasn’t experienced. I’m old enough to recall when fire was invented. Heck, I was around when the first ferns sprouted during the late Devonian Period, and when sea slugs made their slimy landfall at Key West in 2214 BC, launching humanity. Sure, Biden is a nice guy, and that wife of his is smokin’ hot. But is that enough? Personally, I was going to encourage Harry Belafonte to run, but then he went and died young.”
I laughed, until I realized Biden is looking at the average US life expectancy in his rear-view mirror.