Dr. Jill tries to rescue Joe Biden on The View

The ongoing (unsuccessful) attempt to persuade the world that Joe Biden is something more than a marginally-sentient head of cauliflower continued on Thursday, as Biden appeared with his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, on The View. The money moment arrived when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Biden about the spate of books, “deeply sourced from Democratic sources, that claim in your final year, there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities.”

Biden stared downward, with an angry smirk.

“What is your response to these allegations?” Griffin asked, “Are these sources wrong?”

“Are wrong,” Biden gurgled, even though they were obviously not wrong.

“Nothing to sustain that. Think of what we left with. We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection that started, not since the Civil War. We had a circumstance where we were in a position where, well, uh, a pandemic because of the incompetence of the last outfit. End up over a million people dying. We were also in a situation where, uh, we found ourselves unable to, uh, deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won’t go into. So we went to work and we got it done. One of the things that, well, uh…”

With that remaining minute of Biden’s life over, the real ex-President, Dr. Jill, rode to the rescue. “The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,” she said, even though some of them were, some of the time. “And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.”

She continued, as Biden stared down at the table quietly. He eventually crossed his arms. “He’d get up, he’d put in a full day, and at night, I’d be in bed, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings. Working with staff. I mean, it was non-stop.”

Dr. Jill didn’t mention what book she was reading. Was it Lessons In Chemistry? Salvage The Bones? Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow? An early draft of Abundance? Regardless, she said, the President was on the grind.

“The White House, being president, is not like a job. It’s a lifestyle. It’s a life that you live. You live it 24 hours a day. That phone can ring at 11 o’clock at night, or two in the morning. It’s constant. You never leave it. And Joe worked really hard. If you look at things today, give me Joe Biden any time.”

Biden liked that answer. He smiled and gestured toward his wife. “That’s worth the invitation to come to the show,” he said, as the audience applauded, totally unbidden, I’m certain.

Later, Biden, certainly one of the four hardest-working presidents this century, had this to say to Joy Behar: “How do you lead the word without it uch struch much? How do you lead the world without the best healthcare in the world? How do you lead the world without having the best education sim mo? How do you leave the world when you don’t have that done?”

It’s hard to quantify. Let’s ask Dr. Jill.