Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
March 10, 2024
To paraphrase former President Donald Trump, Joe Biden exhibited high energy during his delivery of what G-d willing will be the last State of the Union address of his occupation of the White House. But, much more is needed than a one dimensional shout fest of an inappropriate campaign speech set in the House chamber blaming Republicans for anything and everything, while taking no responsibility for anything himself.
But the hypocrisy began even before Biden left the White House to make the trip up Pennsylvania Avenue. So concerned about the safety of Biden, a huge fence was erected for the purpose of protecting the so-called leaders, yet those same elected officials can’t seem to construct a wall or fence at the southern border to protect the American citizens living in such a precarious state. A state that would not have existed had Biden not destroyed the Trump border policies and intentionally allowed eight to 10 million illegals from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe to invade this nation.
Some of those illegals and citizens alike were responsible for Biden’s delay in reaching the Capitol as they protested, what they believed to be, his pro-Israel policy. The protesters are pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, and pro-ceasefire. Reaching the Capitol past 9:10 PM, Biden took several more minutes to reach the Speaker’s podium being mobbed by Congressional well-wishers - much more so than usual State of the Union addresses. (Quite frankly, I think Biden took smaller and shorter steps so as not to fall down, and stopped for the members of the two houses in order to ask for directions getting down the aisle.) The Democrats did not seem so concerned with the state of the Union, but with the state of Joe Biden.
So charged up, Biden began his address as soon as he gave the customary copies of his speech to Kamala Harris and Speaker Mike Johnson, before Johnson even had the opportunity to introduce Biden as is conventional. Biden jumped in with both boots to tell the American people the state of Ukraine, not the state of OUR Union. Seeking to increase spending on Ukraine’s defense, Biden should have opened with seeking to increase spending on defending the United States and the permeable southern border - which he allowed on his so-called watch. The United States needs to suspend funding for Ukraine until Europe makes a more concerted effort to do their fair share. Biden so enjoys demanding Americans pay their fair share, so too should Europe, especially after saying that Europe is at risk.
After Biden demanded more aid for Ukraine he turned his attention to yelling at Americans who don’t love their country. “You can’t love your country only when you win.” I imagine he directed that barb at the Republicans, for what reason I could not fathom. Most Americans love their country and want the best for the nation and its citizenry. That said, Biden’s accusation should have been directed to the left wing, radical, progressive, America last Democrats - the ones who support open borders and a dissolution of the border patrol, freebies for illegals, putting illegals ahead of Americans, granting amnesty and ultimately citizenship and voting rights for illegals, those calling for the defunding of law enforcement. If Biden wants to condemn folks for not loving their country, he must start with every Democrat who voted against condemning anti-Semitism, and for calling for the removal of Trump from ballots, saving democracy, which couldn’t be further from the truth. (https://sanfordspeaksout.blogspot.com/2024/03/scotus-rules-9-0-keeping-trump-on.html)
The gaslighting portion of the Biden “campaign” speech followed the criticizing Americans who don’t love their country section. Biden claimed 15 million new jobs have been created during his term in office, that the economy is strong, that crime is down, and that the GOP is responsible for the crisis at the border. Not once did Biden take responsibility for his many failings. How many of those so-called new jobs happened to be people returning to work following Covid (you know, the China virus)? Biden actually had the audacity to say the US economy is “the envy of the world.” Did Biden even bother to read the crime statistics, especially those in the biggest of American cities, those run by Democrats for decades and decades?
During the gaslighting, as if on a Kool-aid high, the Congressional Democrats began chanting “four more years,” something they did at least three times during the Biden “campaign” speech. Four more years? Four more years of what? An invasion at the southern border thus far having allowed more than eight million illegals into this country to rape, pillage, plunder, murder, attack, and assault at will? Illegals supplanting veterans from certain housing? Illegals supplanting American children from schools? Prices so high people have to hedge between buying groceries, medications, gas for their vehicles, or paying mortgage/rent? An administration telling students they don't have to pay back their college loans and forcing the rest of us to pay them? An administration supporting the bastardization of Title IX - recognizing biological males as so-called women? An administration trying to cut more freedoms from Americans - telling us what kind of car to buy, what kind of crappy working appliance to buy, what kind of food to eat? Four more years of out of control spending making the dollar worth less and less every year? Four more years of rampant Anti Semitism - especially on those college campuses Biden is so quick to force us to pay for that poor excuse of an education? Four more years of a military not making its quotas of new recruits? Four more years of the military worrying more about pronouns than protecting America?
As Biden continued his angry, get off my lawn rant, he turned his attention to the size of a Snickers bar, which seemed more important than the size of the holes at the southern border. Biden also seemed more concerned with snack chips infinitely more than China stealing US computer chip technology.
Soon thereafter, US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) stepped up, practically turning the State of the Union address into a session of the British Parliament. Attired in a Make America Great Again ball cap, a shirt reading “Say Her Name,” in memory of Laken Riley, and two buttons with Riley’s name and photo on her jacket. Riley was the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student beaten to death on February 22 by an illegal alien from Venezuela. Greene began to shout “say her name,” in an attempt to goad Biden into mentioning the victim of his own border policies. It worked.
Biden held up the button Greene gave him earlier that evening upon his arrival in the House chamber. Looking at it, he shouted, “Lincoln. Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman that was killed by an illegal. That’s right. But how many thousands of people killed by illegals,” BIden asked derisively, meaning, by legals. Or did he say legals in the first place? Hard to tell; Biden didn’t have complete control of his speech and diction as has become his norm. And even holding the button, Biden couldn’t correctly say the name of Laken Riley. (https://sanfordspeaksout.blogspot.com/2024/02/bidens-broken-border-claims-life-of.html)
That Biden called Laken Riley’s murderer an illegal stirred up more consternation within the legacy media than the actual slaughter of that innocent nursing student. For days since the State of the Union “campaign” speech Biden has had to answer for the “sin” of using the word illegal, which is exactly what this waste of space should be called. Biden has been verbally genuflecting over this egregious transgression, in an effort to assuage his base. Donald Trump, on the other hand, met with Laken Riley’s parents, not that the legacy media would report such information.
Biden sounded equally delusional when discussing Israel, and the war started by Hamas on October 7, 2023. To be fair, Biden did support Israel’s right to defend itself - he’s a real sport, as if Israel, a sovereign nation, needs any other nation’s permission to defend itself. It was all downhill from there, as Biden clamored for a two-state solution, which is completely untenable. There is NO two-state solution to be had when one of those states won't even recognize the existence of the other, when the same group wants to destroy the other, and continues slaughtering its people as it did on October 7.
There also has been an almost constant harangue, mostly from Kamala Harris, demanding a ceasefire in the war Hamas started against Israel. On October 6, 2023 a ceasefire existed. The very next day, on October 7, Israel was attacked. Hamas slaughtered more than 1,400 Israeli men, women, and children. Hamas is also the elected body of Gaza. Hamas controls what comes in and goes out of Gaza - including humanitarian aid. Hamas has commandeered more of these supplies than most people could imagine. That said, for Biden to say Israel must step up and provide more humanitarian aid, simply proves his lack of understanding of the situation there, as well as his lack of understanding of war. Did the US provide humanitarian aid to Nazi Germany during World War II? There’s always that double standard concerning Israel. Israel is expected to go above and beyond, but to be fair, Israel historically makes every bona fide attempt to limit civilian casualties. Succeeding is harder than the uninitiated would realize because Hamas infamously hides its terrorists within civilian homes and sites, uses those very civilians as human shields, as well as putting their weaponry amongst civilians in places such as hospitals, kindergartens, and the underground tunnels.
Biden sounded like a cranky, angry, demented, old man, delivering a partisan, rancorous, campaign speech, ignoring key issues, or not spending nearly enough time on them. He bellowed at the people as an old school marm looking down the nose of her spectacles. He was disrespectful, dithering, doddering, and downright disagreeable, May we the people be Blessed that this be the last State of the Union address he delivers.
Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield,, IN.
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