Biden's speech at Valley Forge {UPDATED)

Reminds one of the way he blew up Romney's mention of "binders of women" candidates.

Why didn't Russia invade Ukraine while Trump was president? Probably because Putin feared Trump. What foreign leader fears Biden? The only people who fear Biden are half of the American people.  Dennis Prager

Joe Biden's Scary Speech on Jan. 6 (townhall.com)  . . ."Politically speaking, the purpose of the speech was clear. Given that Biden has among the lowest favorability numbers ever recorded for a sitting president, he cannot make the election about his achievements.

Because he has none that warrant his reelection. In every way, he has made America a worse country.

"He has terribly damaged the economy -- increased an already unsustainable national debt; changed an energy-independent and energy-exporting country into an energy dependent and energy-importing one.

"He hurt America and the world by withdrawing -- and in the way he withdrew -- American troops from Afghanistan. He showed that America cannot be counted on by those who depend on us. He abandoned $7 billion in weaponry, much of it now being used by Islamic terror groups. For example, as NBC News reported, "Most of the weapons recovered so far, officials say, are from Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) or Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), both Pakistan-based militant groups that the U.S. designates as terrorist organizations." Other weapons have ended up in Gaza, and others in Iran.

"He has hurt America and Israel by enriching the Iranian regime. According to the Wall Street Journal, "The Iranian surge in oil exports since President Biden took over has brought Iran an additional $32 billion to $35 billion, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies." ...

 A Trashy Speech by a Trashy President: Biden Takes on Valley Forge - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "You probably didn’t watch Joe Biden fumble, stumble, and mumble his way through that pathetic speech he made in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on Friday. It was supposed to set the tone for his 2024 reelection campaign — or, at least, what will consist of that campaign until Biden is dumped out of his spot on the Democrats’ ticket (nobody seems to have a great idea who the replacement will be, but it seems more and more inevitable that Biden simply isn’t going to be able to carry on the charade that he’s the guy in charge too much longer)." . . . Sadly, the full article is behind a paywall.

Joe Biden is no George Washington, and Valley Forge proved it | The Hill  . . ."The speech was a masterpiece of contradiction. Biden started by denouncing how Donald Trump’s campaign is only “about him” and “obsessed with the past.” He then spent virtually all of the speech obsessing about Trump and Jan. 6, 2021. 

"It was an early indication of the Orwellian character of the speech. Facing the lowest polling numbers of any modern president, Biden attempted a constructive substitution. “Democracy is on the ballot,” he said. So voters do not have to vote for him. When they see Biden, they should just read “democracy.”

"That will require more than an act of substitution in the voting booth. It would require an act of willful blindness.

"Biden spoke of how Democrats are fighting to protect the “right to vote.” Democratic activists and officials across the country are seeking to remove Trump from the ballot even though he is the most popular choice for the presidency right now.  

"In fact, dozens of Democratic officials have sought to remove 126 Republicans from Congress on the same basis. Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district.

"Biden’s speech would be more credible if he had joined principled Democratic politicians who have denounced this nationwide effort. As usual, he has remained silent as he did on court packing in the last election.

"It would also have been a tad more convincing if his party were not preventing citizens from voting for anyone other than Biden in the primary. Florida called its Democratic primary for Biden and blocked opposing candidates, despite two-thirds of Democrats wanting an alternative to Biden. Faced with such polling numbers, the party establishment is so committed to democracy that it has decided voters cannot be trusted with a choice. North Carolina’s Democrats became the latest to bar anyone but Biden from the ballot. " . . .

UPDATE: Romney to Biden: January 6 Is a Political Dead Horse – HotAir   "Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) delivered some campaign advice to Joe Biden – stop campaigning on Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021. Move on, Joe.

"For some unexplained reason, the Biden campaign thought it was a good idea to take Biden to Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles from Valley Forge, where George Washington rallied the Continental Army to fight the British almost 250 years ago. I guess the purpose was to compare Washington to Biden. It’s ridiculous on many levels, but Team Biden is absolutely clueless, lost in their own little bubble.

"George Washington could not lie. Joe Biden is a serial liar.

"When Joe Biden delivers a speech, usually the White House has to smooth over or explain his remarks. Especially when he goes off the teleprompter, Biden’s staff just holds their breath because they are afraid what he will say. The Biden campaign has decided to bring back Dark Brandon, the screaming old man we saw during the 2022 midterms. The playbook is to paint Trump as a threat to democracy and generally a bad person. One way to do this is to concentrate on the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6. Biden uses the word ‘insurrection’ though Trump was not charged with insurrection. Nonetheless, Biden persists.

"The problem with dwelling on January 6 is that Americans are over it." . . .

. . .Anyway, Biden has nothing to run on and Americans are feeling a Carter-like malaise. The only choice Biden has is to trash Trump on a personal level.