When he was in the campaign trail, I thought to myself, "He's functioning at about the same level as grandma." Now grandma, at that point was in a retirement home due to her Alzheimer's, but the thing was, you wouldn't notice it at first. Grandma, like Joe, was always creative and good at speaking, and could make something up with enough coherence to hide the fact that she couldn't follow the conversation or remember the events in question. This, combined with her natural disposition as a dottery old lady allowed her to hide her condition for quite a while, and portray a better state of health than the truth of reality. I wouldn't be surprised if the truth of the situation with Joe is much the same, and what we don't see is far worse.
When he was in the campaign trail, I thought to myself, "He's functioning at about the same level as grandma." Now grandma, at that point was in a retirement home due to her Alzheimer's, but the thing was, you wouldn't notice it at first. Grandma, like Joe, was always creative and good at speaking, and could make something up with enough coherence to hide the fact that she couldn't follow the conversation or remember the events in question. This, combined with her natural disposition as a dottery old lady allowed her to hide her condition for quite a while, and portray a better state of health than the truth of reality. I wouldn't be surprised if the truth of the situation with Joe is much the same, and what we don't see is far worse.
Grandma died last month. She was 91.