President Shambles: barely 12 minutes in

From the Hur-Biden transcript, page 12:

PRESIDENT BIDEN: And you learn more from that as you learn anything else. So one of my -- and the President gave me carte blanche to engage any member of the Administration. So, for example, we used to have meetings at NIH where there was all the medical -- what I did, I made sure that the Defense Department was there. I made sure that the, the -- NASA was there. NASA knows more about, about dealing with some of the things that have to do when working that cancer. Many people die trying to -- when they kill the cancer, they use a proton -- anyway.

We're barely 12 minutes into this conversation, and we're already seeing signs of how Joe Biden's mind will wander into the weeds. Nothing here is damning, but it's a harbinger of what's to come. We'll be seeing plenty of sentences that end with, "...anyway."

It's true that Robert Hur may have instigated the above thoughts on cancer research by referring to Biden's book, titled Promise Me, Dad. (Up to now, Hur has made no direct reference to Beau. Joe Biden did that on his own.) "Promise me" is supposedly a quote from Beau Biden, said while he was sick with glioblastoma, in an attempt to make sure Joe Biden would run for office, presumably as a way to keep the Obama legacy alive.

NB: I've chosen to title this series "President Shambles." I was inspired by John McCrarey's suggestion to title the series "The Walking Brain Dead." John's suggestion evokes zombies, and most zombies shamble from place to place. Biden the shambling zombie has left our country in a shambles... and thus was President Shambles born.