Opinion: It was a tale of two SOTU speeches tonight. President Biden was on the offensive when vowing to confront Putin — and on the back foot when touting his domestic agenda, writes greenfield64
The Joe Biden who began his first State of the Union speech Tuesday night was someone we have not seen very much of: a passionate, strong-voiced speaker, seeking a united, free world and hailing his administration’s response to Vladimir Putin’s aggression.
And while Biden’s adversaries will gleefully note his unintentional substitution of “Iranian” for “Ukrainian” people, his most notable ad lib came after he skewered Putin, saying, “We countered Russia’s lies with truth and now that he has acted, the free world is holding him accountable.”Given the grim nature of the topic, it may seem odd to note that this was the “easy” part of the speech.
And while Biden was right to point to the success of the American Rescue Plan in easing the worst economic effects of the pandemic, those words might as well have been shouted down along with the other outburst in the Capitol, given the collective amnesia that has gripped most Americans. — offer Democrats some footing for a midterm battle they’re currently losing. They largely consist of defining the bad guys.The story of Joshua Davis, a 13-year-old with Type 1 diabetes, was affecting.
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