Biden's Georgia Speech Has America at a Breaking Point
Jan 14, 2022 16:23:42 GMT -5
Post by bloodbought on Jan 14, 2022 16:23:42 GMT -5
Biden's Georgia Speech Has America at a Breaking Point
BY RICK MORAN JAN 14, 2022 1:46 PM ET
That Joe Biden is failing as president has been obvious from the beginning. It was clear from the start that Biden’s basic selling point as a presidential candidate — that he was an uniter, not a divider — was a cynical effort to win the votes of people who still believed in an America that was “indivisible.”
All anyone had to do to disabuse themselves of the notion that his words of unity were anything but a shallow political ploy would be to read the president’s Georgia speech where he tried to sell his “voting rights” bill as a last gasp effort to “save democracy.”
The speech united the country, all right. But it united it against him.
Wall Street Journal:
The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him. By the end of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s answering speech on Wednesday you knew some new break point had occurred, that President Biden might have thought he was just crooning to part of his base but the repercussions were greater than that; he was breaking in some new way with others—and didn’t know it. It is poor political practice when you fail to guess the effects of your actions. He meant to mollify an important constituency but instead he filled his opponents with honest indignation and, I suspect, encouraged in that fractured group some new unity.
The speech itself was aggressive, intemperate, not only offensive but meant to offend. It seemed prepared by people who think there is only the Democratic Party in America, that’s it, everyone else is an outsider who can be disparaged. It was a mistake on so many levels.
There’s a lot of fluff and chaff in politics. We see it every day. The back and forth between politicians calling each other liars and knaves is nothing new.
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BY RICK MORAN JAN 14, 2022 1:46 PM ET
That Joe Biden is failing as president has been obvious from the beginning. It was clear from the start that Biden’s basic selling point as a presidential candidate — that he was an uniter, not a divider — was a cynical effort to win the votes of people who still believed in an America that was “indivisible.”
All anyone had to do to disabuse themselves of the notion that his words of unity were anything but a shallow political ploy would be to read the president’s Georgia speech where he tried to sell his “voting rights” bill as a last gasp effort to “save democracy.”
The speech united the country, all right. But it united it against him.
Wall Street Journal:
The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him. By the end of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s answering speech on Wednesday you knew some new break point had occurred, that President Biden might have thought he was just crooning to part of his base but the repercussions were greater than that; he was breaking in some new way with others—and didn’t know it. It is poor political practice when you fail to guess the effects of your actions. He meant to mollify an important constituency but instead he filled his opponents with honest indignation and, I suspect, encouraged in that fractured group some new unity.
The speech itself was aggressive, intemperate, not only offensive but meant to offend. It seemed prepared by people who think there is only the Democratic Party in America, that’s it, everyone else is an outsider who can be disparaged. It was a mistake on so many levels.
There’s a lot of fluff and chaff in politics. We see it every day. The back and forth between politicians calling each other liars and knaves is nothing new.
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