Doyle McManus: Biden is old. Trump is too. But only one of them would trash the Constitution
President Joe Biden's age was back in the news last week, thanks mostly to a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal announcing: "Behind closed doors, Biden shows signs of slipping."
The story was less sensational than the headline. It quoted Republican Kevin McCarthy, the former House speaker from Bakersfield, as saying the president "is not the same person" that he was a decade ago. It quoted the current speaker, Mike Johnson, R-La., as saying that Biden, in a meeting, "appeared to misunderstand" his own policy on natural gas.
But here's a Washington secret you already knew: McCarthy and Johnson, bitter opponents of the Democratic president, aren't reliable narrators here.
The real story is both obvious and elusive. At when he speaks. He often gets names and details wrong, although he's done that for years.
