TV is a cool medium. Katie Britt has come in way too hot in her response. The emotional intensity and near-tears voice worked for the part where she was narrating a woman’s experience of multiple rapes, but she’s been in that key for a few minutes straight.
In terms of Biden’s presentation, it’s pretty clear that he determined to just keep shouting as a way to seem vigorous. Every time he stopped doing that, he tailed off into mumbling, and started shouting again for the next sentence.
Biden’s speech will be predictably overpraised (they’re already celebrating it as a triumph over on NBC News) but served his campaign purposes well enough on a strategic level, and thus must be counted as at least a marginal win for him he badly needed.
There will be few opportunities to take Biden’s measure (and none of them true) before November; In this one, his campaign laid out their theory of the case against Trump, for better or worse, while also pandering to every constituency they could imagine. You can understand the administration’s electoral logic even as it looks increasingly dubious.
They have a very large hole to dig out of.
If it is true, as Bismarck is supposed to have said, that the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America, we should be all the more thankful for that protection given the state of our national leadership.
Biden is closing a speech by saying there is a battle between those who want to drag us backward and those who want to go forward. But the whole presentation felt like a showcase for a Democratic Party that ceased to exist 20 years ago or more. This is how Joe Biden won in 2020, of course. It remains to be seen whether voters find it credible after experiencing the real thing.
God has blessed America, at least in the sense that the speech has ended.
Biden denounces “ancient ideas,” argues instead for economic policies from the 1930s.
If there were any questions about whether Biden was going to abandon Israel, we got our answer tonight. Was Sinwar unavailable to deliver this speech?
Biden notes that Bobby Kennedy was one of his heroes, which of course reflects the fact that he and RFK Jr. are apples off the same tree.
Mike Johnson having trouble keeping a straight face as Biden talks about valuing honesty.