When I was growing up, I was taught to respect my elders. I don’t ever want to be unkind to senior citizens.

But Democrat Joe Biden, 78,  is running for president and let’s face it, he is not up to the task.

On the evening of March 3 – Super Tuesday – he temporarily confused his wife and another woman.

The weekend before, Biden called Fox News’ Chris Wallace “Chuck”  instead of Chris. Biden quickly said he had just been interviewed by Chuck Todd of NBC.

Before Super Tuesday, Biden told voters in Houston it was “Super Thursday.”

On Super Tuesday, Biden confused his wife Jill and his sister Valerie while referring to them on the stage behind him.

You would hope that someone who was vice president for eight year would have a pretty good grasp of the Declaration of Independence. In another speech in Texas, Biden said, ““We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing.”

It actually states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

In February, Biden was in South Carolina and he called himself, “a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.”

He’s running for president, not the Senate.

“You’re the ones who sent Barack Obama the presidency,” Biden said at a rally. ”And I have a simple proposition here: I’m here to ask you for your help. Where I come from, you don’t go very far unless you ask. My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden. Give me a look though, okay?”

Who is the other “Biden?”

At the recent Democrat debate in Las Vegas, Biden answered a question about gun violence.

“150 million people have been killed since 2007,” Biden announced.

That would be half the population of America. (By the way, it seems Biden secured the endorsement of Beto O’Rourke by promising him to be some kind of “gun czar” in his administration. O’Rourke folded his campaign for president shortly after he pledged to confiscate guns.)

In that debate, Biden claimed to have eliminated gun magazines “that could not hold more than 10 rounds…” the assault weapon ban stopped manufacture and importation of those magazines but existing one were not “eliminated.”

Biden said he had been arrested in South Africa in the 1970s for opposing apartheid. “I guess I should have said I was detained. I was not able to move forward,” Biden later said.

“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robben Island,”  Biden said during an event in Columbia, South Carolina, on Feb. 11.

Also in South Carolina in February, Biden told supporters, “Well, I’m looking forward to appointing the first African American woman to the U.S. Senate.”

Senators are elected, not appointed by the president.

And at least once, Biden got South Carolina and North Carolina confused.

In the November Democrat debate, Biden said he was endorsed by the “only African American woman who’s ever been elected to the U.S. Senate.” But he was on the stage with Sen. Kamala Harris, an opponent who was the second African American woman to serve in the Senate.

In 2019 in a speech on public education, Biden said, “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”

What did he mean to say? That “black kids are just as bright as white kids” or that “poor kids are just as bright as rich kids?”

Biden said he helped negotiate the Paris Climate Accord with a Chinese leader who has been dead 23 years.

In a CNN Town Hall, Biden mistakenly claimed that his late son Beau was a former U.S Attorney General. Beau Biden was the attorney general of Delaware.

At the Iowa State Fair, Biden said, “We choose science over fiction; we choose truth over facts.”

There are more gaffes but this is a good starting list.

Everyone makes mistakes, especially when you are speaking at a public event.

But this is a man who wants to be president of the United States. Is there a medical problem? I hope that’s not true. Is this just part of the natural aging process? Probably.

But Biden has always played loose with the truth.

He looks tired. Biden gets angry and agitated. He seems confused and he forgets facts. He stammers as he tries to collect his thoughts.

This is not someone who is ready to run to country, much less have his button on our nuclear arsenal.