President Biden took the George McGovern Memorial Time Slot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last night. I have posted the video below. The White House has not yet posted a transcript. The Time transcript is posted here. Time times the transcript as a “27 minute read.” On a feels-like basis, it’s more like 27 hours.
The New York Post cover (right) captures the indignity of it all. It is keyed to Steven Nelson’s cover story. Nelson notes somewhat cruelly:
“We finally beat Big Pharma,” Biden declared at one point, correctly using the June 27 debate-stage line that doomed his candidacy when he instead uttered that he “finally beat Medicare.”
For a fact-check on the proposition, see Jack Clifford’s analysis here.
Biden’s speech ran nearly an hour. He was pumped up on an overdose of hate and lies. Kept up way past his bedtime, he might have been angry about the midnight time slot, but Donald Trump must have have accounted for the dominant mood as well. Biden recurred to angry man shouting mode with Donald Trump the subject of the text and subtext of much of the speech.
The enthusiastic crowd proclaimed “We love Joe.” That was slightly misleading. They love Joe for accepting his defenestration without further ado. “[A]ll this talk about how I’m angry at all those people who said I should step down, it’s not true,” he asserted. If only he would have named the key actors we might have learned something. As it is, “Move on, Joe” would have been somewhat more straightforward.
Having invited some 10 million illegal aliens to enter the United States, Biden asserted that all is well at the border. Considering the invitation, the invasion, and the complacent lies, I wonder if Biden might not have surpassed James Buchanan as the worst president in American history.
Biden laid down the law near the top of his speech: “[T]here is no place in America for political violence. None.” We know that is a partial view at best. Indeed, when it came to the pro-Hamas crowd outside the hall, Biden said: “Those protesters out in the street, they have a point.” Mayor Daley, call your office.
Biden justified the cause of the protesters: “A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.” However, the protesters support the murder of innocent Israelis. Chalk it up as another lie.
Biden lacked even the decency to mention Israel or Hamas in his remarks. Instead he gave us this — including “a peace treaty for Gaza.” Really:
[W]e’ll keep working to bring hostages home and end the war in Gaza and bring peace and security to the Middle East. As you know, I wrote a peace treaty for Gaza. A few days ago, I put forward a proposal that brought us closer to doing that than we’ve done since October 7th. We’re working around the clock, my Secretary of State, to prevent a wider war and reunite hostages with their families and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza now, to end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally, finally, finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war.
Hamas is to live to fight another day.
Speaking of “both sides,” Biden repeated the “good people on both sides” classic. It’s been debunked even by the worthless left-wing fact-checkers, yet Biden persists. Biden performed greatest hits like an over-the-hill performer.
He also presents as a pure case of projection: “It’s hard. I never thought I’d stand before a crowd of Democrats and refer to a President as a liar so many times. No, I’m not trying to be funny. It’s sad.” I know the feeling.
Can we get a fact-check on this:
America’s winning and the world’s better off for it. America’s more prosperous and America is safer today than under Donald Trump. Trump continues to lie about crime in America like everything else. Guess what? On his watch, the murder rate went up 30%, the biggest increase in history. Meanwhile, we made the largest investment, Kamala and I, in public safety ever. Now, the murder rate is falling faster than any time in history. Violent crime has dropped to the lowest level of more than 50 years. And crime will keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon.
The “convicted felon” bit reminds us of the lawfare that the Biden administration has conducted and urged against President Trump. It’s all in a good cause, of course. Trump must be defeated — to “save Our Democracy™.” More importantly, he must be destroyed. As Carthage was to Rome, Trump is to the Democrats — and so will be the next Republican presidential nominee, whoever he or she is. They have immeasurably compounded the challenge of retaining a civil society.
Biden formulated the rationale supporting his exit in age-related terms: “I’ve either been too young to be in the Senate because I wasn’t 30 yet and too old to stay as President.” Not too old, however, too diminished — too diminished to be president. The White House physician refuses to give him a cognitive test because he knows what the outcome would be.
The speech touted Biden’s alleged accomplishments and defended his alleged legacy. Whether or not Biden is the WOAT, his inflation, his support of Iran (and its proxies), his appeasement of China, and his support of the invasion of illegals make him easily one of our most destructive presidents. Coincidentally, the Report of the House Impeachment Inquiry, released yesterday and Andrew McCarthy’s related New York Post column or this related NRO editorial (undoubtedly written by McCarthy), also establish him as our most corrupt.
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