Joe Biden’s speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was supposed to happen on the anniversary of January 6th, but was bumped up a day to Friday, perhaps because Biden didn’t want it to interfere with his next weekend off in Delaware.
The speech was just as awful as you might expect. Unable to run on the economy, foreign policy, or any other achievements, Biden has decided to run on the premise that Trump is a threat to democracy and that he, and he alone, can save America from the former president.
Here’s part of the transcript, via the Associated Press:
In the winter of 1777, it was harsh and cold as the Continental Army marched to Valley Forge. General George Washington knew he faced the most daunting of tasks, to fight and win a war against the most powerful empire in existence in the world at the time. His mission was clear: liberty, not conquest. Freedom. Not domination. National independence. Not individual glory.America made a vow: Never again would we bow down to a king…Today, we’re here to answer the most important of questions. Is democracy still America’s sacred cause? I mean it.This is not rhetorical, academic or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time.And it’s what the 2024 election is all about.The choice is clear.Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America, not you.Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.
Biden had the nerve to say democracy is on the ballot, as his party tries to remove Trump from multiple state ballots.
Biden invoked the Constitution, despite the fact that his party regularly targets the First and Second Amendments.
Biden mentioned decency, honor, and truth—ignoring the mounting legal troubles of his hooker-chasing, crackhead son.
I’ll let this clip speak for itself.
Professor Jonathan Turley’s analysis is much calmer and more nuanced than mine.
Joel Pollak of Breitbart News notes that this was just more of the same, tired strategy that Biden has used in the past:
President Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign on Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with recycled attack lines against Donald Trump that he had previously used in the 2020 presidential campaign.Biden claimed — as if it were a fact — that Trump had called fallen soldiers (Biden called them “dead soldiers”) “suckers” and “losers,” an unsubstantiated accusation by unnamed sources that was refuted at the time by more than a dozen people who went on the record, including some who opposed Trump.Biden also attacked Trump for considering the use of the Insurrection Act in 2020 — which Biden described as a frightening use of the military on American streets, omitting the fact that Black Lives Matter rioters were rampaging through America’s cities.Much of the speech was devoted to the third anniversary of the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021; Biden moved his speech a day earlier to avoid bad weather. He made no mention of similar left-wing “insurrections,” such as a left-wing shutdown of the California State Assembly this week — which resulted in no arrests at all, even though legislators had to flee the building.
The important thing to remember here, is that Biden’s speech was a preview of the next ten months. His devoted followers in the media will repeat his argument for him between now and November. Prepare to hear a lot more of this rhetoric.
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