The State of the President
If his supporters continue to gaslight voters about his obvious incapacity, Biden will lose in November.
by David Catron
March 10, 2024, 10:35 PM
It was inevitable that the corporate media would applaud President Biden’s State of the Union address if he had the vitality to stand upright for two hours and the vision to read a teleprompter. For ordinary voters who aren’t paid to praise him, Biden’s performance last Thursday night probably confirmed many of their fears about leaving him in office for another term. This, for example, is how he described the current state of our domestic politics: “Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.” If your uncle said that during a family dinner everyone would agree that another trip to rehab was in order.
Biden’s speech was full of similarly crazy claims. Predictably, he brought up the fabled Jan. 6 riot and claimed, “Insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy.” Never mind that no one involved was ever charged with insurrection. Ignore the polls showing that most Americans saw the event simply as “a protest that went too far.” Biden insisted that democracy is in mortal danger and the locus of the threat is former President Trump, the Republican Party and the voters who support them: “My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth of January 6th … This is a moment to speak the truth and bury the lies. ” All of this dreck was delivered in a weirdly angry and arrhythmical rhetorical cadence punctuated by “strategic shouting,” as Harold Meyerson generously describes it in the American Prospect:
He obviously had to deal with the age issue, in all its various facets. He dispelled, I think, the accusation of lack of energy, not least by virtually shouting at least half of his address. This was a departure from past State of the Union practice, but given his age, a necessary one … Yes, words were slurred and misspoken; that’s an artifact of age he clearly won’t dispel. Republicans will continue to highlight that, though if Biden takes to the stump with the energy and the messages he displayed Thursday night, those where-did-they-come-from nouns should matter less to at least a portion of the public.
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