He neglected only one thing, as far as I could tell. I was hoping that he would have said something to the prime minister of Israel like "no more bombs until you start to agree with me and stop the slaughter". It would, I think, really help..
I also got a note from Gaven Newsom telling me that the Republicans have a pile of attack ads. We keep being told that the Dems have lots of money (more than the other side) and yet there seems to be no Dem ads yet. Wonder when they are going to do that one. I mention that as I don't see any Dem ads and have been wondering why. Given that, other than last night, the Dems have pretty much been silent.
Joe Biden gave tribute to the possibility that government can work. He laid out one after another policy that makes sense, and often as not, saves money. He talked about real policy successes. Ol' Joe promised to fight against past policy disasters.
Joe laid out one after another policy that voters overwhelmingly support. Behind him, Speaker Johnson squirmed, often shaking his head. Republicans sat sourly, bitterly, usually in silence - notwithstanding the occasional outburst from the emotionally unwell Margie Taylor-Greene.
Decent voters could see that Republicans collectively want government to fail, want popular policies to fail.
I heard that is was a great speech only because Biden's handlers had him massively medicated - some say with speed.
(Somehow I don't think speed would make a senile dementia patient able to give a one hour long coherent speech that included sparring humorously with hostile audience members, would it?)
No one I've asked will tell me what the magic juice actually was, but I think paired with Ozempic it could save human civilization!
I held off giving my impression until others had weighed in. While not perfect- Biden is not a good public speaker - it was well-structured and -delivered. His ad libs were, perhaps, the best part of it, and, I think, most importantly, dispelled a lot of the "sleepy Joe" rhetoric. It was a great environment for his "coming out".
I think it was his best performance as President - energetic, feisty, on point, and specific. I actually found it rousing and unboring. I particularly liked his aside to the Supreme Court.
The response was a gross admixture of Stepford Wives and SNL parody and was "uncanny valley" throughout. Another Republican "rising star" flame-out (joining Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio in the Hall of Shame). Talk about tone deaf.
Today, I think, Biden is going into where most of the Palestinians reside. It will be interesting what happens. Remember, the UK and USA, together, moved in the Israelites thereby saving the UK from any more attacks from the Zionists who were claiming that THEY were entitled to Palestine and backed that up with guns, attacks, etc. At the time, if I remember correctly, we bought them some land for their homeland. The Zionists continue to believe, to this day, that the Palestinians have absolutely no right to have ANY land there and its all theirs. Today there is a guy named Netanyahu running Israel and he has publicly stated that he wants ALL Palestinians gone and has proven it by bombing the hell out of them and killing a LOT of Women and Children. He has killed, so far, over 35,000 Palestinians this time around. The Muslims, on the other side, never agreed to have them planted in the middle of what they consider theirs and some are doing that with guns as well. One can go on, for some time, about all of this but that is, basically, what all of this is about.
The United States wants to establish an independent country, in Palestine for the Palestinians and Netanyahu is against it and the Palestinians are swinging in the wind. Up to now the Israelis have been treating them as intruders sometimes killing them for sports and cheap labor (close to slavery) which, over the years, kinda lit the pot.
Anyway, that is, pretty much, what Biden will be walking into today. I do not envy him. He has been trying to be in favor of both sides and has left him, in this instance, with neither side. Both of the sides are full of really upset, slightly crazed folk and that is just the beginning. One can only wonder why we have even been involved in this mess in the first place. I guess we were helping the UK and now, it seems, we are the goat. I wish Biden luck.