This is part of the 25th Amendment of the US constitution.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
This is a description of the current President.
Without the use of the teleprompter, his speech can be described only as “halting.” It was impossible to count the number of times he seized up, able to deaden the silence with only a drawn-out “uh,” “um” or “ahhh.”
The White House dutifully scrubbed all the halts and stutters from the official transcript, and it was impossible to count them in real time. But a sample of his incoherent word salad found him stuttering about every 15 words, which comes to more than 330 “uh-um-ahhs” in a single appearance.
This is not the same soaring speaker who inspired so many in 2008. This is a broken-down man who has lost the only gift he ever had. Hope and Change have been hijacked by Hopeless and Changed.
President Obama is so old and gaunt, he makes Keith Richards look like Justin Bieber — no offense to Keith Richards. At least Mr. Richards makes sense when he opens his mouth.
For the sake of his health, is it time for Joe Biden to take over the job until he is more fit?
I’m not American. I do not know. In the Commonwealth, if this happened to a Prime Minister, he would not survive the next caucus. Because of Prime Minister’s Questions.
I don’t think President Obama is disabled, though. I think he’s malicious, and has figured out that no matter what nonsense he spreads (like claiming that Paris didn’t have mass shootings right after over a hundred people were killed that way) will be covered for by the media.
Obama has only ever been good at 3 things: 1) Giving a speech written by someone else, 2) Being a candidate and 3) operating a client-system of government money. The first two are wholly built off his own self-confidence, not durable skills and accomplishments. But the cracks in that self-confidence has been showing since the 2012 election. We’re just in the final stages of a failed President’s term.