Posted on 03/04/2024 5:53:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union speech this week, President Joe Biden will pose a question that he hopes will answer itself: Whose side are you on?
Are Americans, as he’ll frame it, on the side of lower health care costs, democratic freedoms and Ukraine’s fight to keep itself from being swallowed up by Russia? Or on the side of drug company profits, tax breaks for the wealthy and Russia’s autocratic leader Vladimir Putin?
Baked into the argument that Biden will lay out Thursday night is that he’s on the right side of all these issues and that voters should unite behind him.
Perhaps Biden’s most urgent mission is simply to reassure a skeptical nation that he’s up to the rigors of the job.
A crisp performance will go a long way toward demonstrating Biden’s fitness and acuity at age 81. By the same token, should he trip while walking to the rostrum in the House chamber, or lose his place on the teleprompter and stare blankly at the screen, he risks a viral moment that would be tough to overcome.
“The speech is a high-wire act — and this for a president whose footing hasn’t been so certain,” said Jeff Shesol, deputy chief speechwriter in the Clinton White House. “For many observers, the point of the exercise is to see whether he stumbles. It’s not so much what he says, but the manner in which he says it.”
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I predict he’ll say “MAGA Republicans” within the first 3 minutes.
The state of the union can be summed up in 3 areas.
Fuel prices.
Food prices.
Out of control border.
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For the democrats it will be like watching a dog walk on two legs. Not that he has to do it well, but just that he does it at all.
I understand that the SOTU is always a bit of a campaign speech in any given year. But this seems to imply that Biden approaches the SOTU just as a free commercial for his campaign.
Think he will only have a three minute SOTU. He’ll have a pant load by then.
It’s a make or break for him. He’ll never have a larger audience watching.
Biden’s two largest issues are he is corrupt and stupid. He has been that way his whole life.
A criminal such as him should be shooed out of office instead of coddled with lies.
Watching him and sitting in Congress while he slurs and lies only legitimizes him.
People should turn their backs on this slimeball.
Understandable. But it’s crass. It’s not what the State of the Union is for. But it’s “Their Democracy” and they want to keep it.
True. Everything they do is a campaign rally. It’s desperate.
There is no make he is broken already
Who is going to be watching?
I’m looking forward to the debates. I hope trump agrees to do them. That’s going to be a watchable event.
Thursday night, what time?
I want to see him go into a really good rant about MAGA Republicans, the way he did that time all lit up in red, wherever it was...
lol. True. They do get some eyeballs. Pundits definitely will. Trump definitely will.
Juggle? Well, that is apropos for Clown World.
“ Think he will only have a three minute SOTU.”
I’m thinking an hour-long, AI-generated or heavily-edited Zoom call from the White NutHouse.
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