WaPo’s Eugene Robinson: Biden Speech an ‘Urgent Wartime Address’

[mystery-ak]

WaPo’s Eugene Robinson: Biden Speech an ‘Urgent Wartime Address’

Jeff Poor 2 Sep 2022

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson heralded President Joe Biden’s speech in Philadelphia the night earlier as an “urgent wartime address.”

According to Robinson, it was “significant” that Biden called out his predecessor and “MAGA Republicans.”

“The speech last night to me sounded like a president delivering a wartime address,” he said. “And indeed, Joe Biden sees this as a battle for the soul of our country. It’s a battle for the preservation of our democracy. To me, the significant thing was, yes, he called out Donald Trump — but he also called out the MAGA Republicans, the MAGA Republican officials and followers, who, for whatever motive, under whatever delusion, are going down this authoritarian path, this undemocratic path and trying to take the nation with them. And he framed this as an emergency, as something that we as a nation need to bond together and to stop, to reverse and to return to our democratic principles and our democratic practices, and to me, it was an urgent wartime address.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/09/02/wapos-eugene-robinson-biden-speech-an-urgent-wartime-address/

[Free Vulcan]

More like a warmongering speech. You could almost hear the screams of the victims of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot's genocide when Biden spoke.

[Wingnut]

Gene Gene the Liberal Dancing Machine

[mountaineer]

He essentially has declared war on half the citizens of this country. In that sense, I guess it was a wartime speech. But please, oh please, stop this "preservation of our democracy" crap. We are not a democracy. We are, as Franklin reportedly said, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Can we keep it?

[andy58-in-nh]

It's quite remarkable how these actual authoritarians keep accusing people who support liberty, small government and self-reliance as being "authoritarians".

[aligncare]

Funny how we never hear anyone from permanent Washington ever refer to our system of government as a Republic anymore. The democrats have so poisoned public discourse and pop culture against republicans that it was only a matter of time before the word “republic” fell from common usage in favor of the more popular, mob rule option.

[Idiot]

He essentially has declared war on half the citizens of this country. In that sense, I guess it was a wartime speech. But please, oh please, stop this "preservation of our democracy" crap. We are not a democracy. We are, as Franklin reportedly said, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Can we keep it?

Nope....we can't...   

Can you imagine if a republican were elected president in the next election?  There would be non-stop riots.  It can't possibly happen....

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Disgraced former FBI agent Andy McCabe says Biden didn’t go far enough threatening Republicans: “People would like to have seen a bit more references to accountability. There really wasn’t much talk about what we’re doing about those insurrectionists” (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1565503599630848006

[Fishrrman]

mountaineer wrote:
"We are not a democracy. We are, as Franklin reportedly said, "A republic, if you can keep it."
Can we keep it?"

In reply, once more I present "Lurker's admonition":
Peaceful coexistence with the left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is."

In recent months, I've come to accept Lurker's statement.
What does that portend for the future?