President Joe Biden was so anxious to come back out swinging in his State of the Union tackle that he didn’t give Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson an opportunity to make the customary formal introduction of the president.
For the whole lot of the speech, Johnson sat uncomfortably behind Biden whereas, subsequent to him, Vice President Kamala Harris obtained a wholesome cardio exercise by continually leaping as much as present approval for every of the president’s applause factors. And Johnson was not the one Republican made uncomfortable by Biden’s tackle, nor was Harris the one Democrat to be enthused.
Biden exploded the stereotype of himself as a doddering, dim-witted outdated man that’s being pushed by the GOP and the right-wing media. He could have entered the Home chamber with a shuffling gait, however, that apart, he was all assault canine on Thursday night time. He relentlessly hammered the congressional Republicans and his unnamed predecessor within the White Home, former President Donald Trump, for failing to offer navy help to Ukraine and, thereby, boosting Vladimir Putin and undermining NATO; for undermining the reproductive rights of American girls; for the sheer hypocrisy of their opposition to a border safety invoice; for his or her promotion of lies concerning the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 rebel; and for a litany of different doubtful positions on points common with American voters.
Democrats who’ve been wishing for a special candidate to guide them into the 2024 marketing campaign should now really feel significantly better concerning the chief they have already got. If, within the months to come back, Biden maintains the combativeness, good humor and quick-witted engagement with heckling opponents that he displayed within the State of the Union efficiency, he can be a potent adversary for the befuddled outdated man who would be the GOP’s presidential nominee.
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