Remember 2004? Howard Dean caught hell for getting too excited then they criticized John Kerry for not being exciting enough
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I finally just watched it, and especially paid attention to verbal missteps that people are talking about ……
….. I saw lots and took way too long to realize YouTube search had given me the 2022 state of the union. Oops
….. back on track with the current one, and the President was on fire. So much livelier and more expressive than two years ago! Definitely kicked ass and laid to rest the idea that he is too old
Why are people still even talking about his verbal missteps? I ignore anyone who rags on his stutter. He's got a legitimate medical condition, and he works hard in his speech therapy to talk as well as he does. It has nothing to do with his mental ability, as there are young people with the same issue.
Sure, however he also succeeded is coming across more confident, assertive, clearheaded than he had a couple years before. The rest of us can only dream of that when we get to his age
The “he was too partisan” comments annoyed the shit out of me. Republicans are nothing if not hypocritical snowflakes.
That's why i stopped giving their words any weight. They'll complain no matter what, so fuck em
It's wrong for someone to talk quickly trying to destroy people with facts and logic! No President should be allowed allowed to angrily yell at a crowd in a long speech! I need to watch Ben Shapiro and Trump for hours now because I'm so angry about these things Biden did!
SLEEPY JOE HAS AWOKEN.
"Too woke! More sleepy please"
The comments from the article were surprisingly not bad. One made a good point:
The POTUS started his SotU speech with:
“Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. And yes, my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.”
I have watched a lot of state of the union addresses and I cannot remember one that began with this stark of warning.
Yet, all the articles being posted are about MTG and whether Biden looked/didn’t look old and who clapped and who didn’t.
That’s a 5-alarm fire bell he just rang, broadcasted out to the entire country and world, pay attention to what’s important
People forget that the point of the speech is right in the title. It's not about the health of the country or political ideals.
Once a year, the President delivers a speech on the stste of the union. It's about how divided the country is and whether or not that division is a threat to the nation.
If the country went full-fascist without a struggle that wouldn't threaten the Union. If the Republicans were voted out of existence and we became a socialist utopia that wouldn't threaten the union.
What is happening now, with one party increasingly refusing to work with the other side and intentionally breaking the systems that make government work? Yeah - that's a threat to the Union.
The majority of the USA is behind Ukraine, it's the magats that are being dumb russian puppets.
Yes. Every other thing is rage bait to distract you.
I worry that at this point if people haven't figured that out they're never going to
LOL.
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