"An Aberration": How Joe Biden De-Presidented Donald Trump with a Single Speech

[New Breed Leader]

There was not a single time in the 25-minute speech that Biden uttered the word ‘President’ immediately preceding ‘Donald’ or ‘Trump’. Biden was withering and clairvoyant in his moral condemnation of how Donald Trump was using the office of the president to gin up the darkest corners of American homegrown terrorism, but not once - not for a single moment - did he recognize Donald Trump directly as the president of the United States. He referred to Trump plenty of times as ‘this president’ (happenstance) or ‘a president’ (undistinguished) and even ‘our president’ (reminder that we can do something), but never as The President, a term that is usually reserved in the American lexicon for the contemporary holder of the Office of the President.

[link:https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/8/8/aberration-how-joe-biden-de-presidented-donald-trump-with-a-single-speech|

[comradebillyboy]

1. Great speech from Biden. Pundits are only now

discovering why Dems like Joe.

[Cha]

3. What are the pundits saying, comradebillyboy?

Mahalo

[comradebillyboy]

12. Now even Joy Reid is singing his praises.

We went through a long stretch in the Spring where many commentators criticized Biden's campaign and Biden himself for being unexciting and backwards looking. He was criticized for being too touchy-feely. He hadn't put out much policy compared to Warren for example. He was roundly criticized for his first debate performance. Joe just wasn't doing what the Chuck Todd or Joy Reid wanted him to do or saying what they wanted him to say.

Yet he polled well despite all the criticism. And he rebounded nicely from the first debate and had a good second debate. His speech really made a great impression on everybody except the Dotard. And now even Chuck Todd and Joy Ried are singing his praises.

[Cha]

2. And, Good on Biden.. most

of us know trump doesn't deserve to be referred to as "president".. he's trashed and disgraced himself forever.

[question everything]

4. Have been doing the same on these pages. Yes, even on LBN

where the precise wording has to be used. At most, it would be Mr. Trump.

[crazytown]

5. Trump is not an aberration

His election is the culmination of the Southern Strategy, envisaged by Goldwater and debuted by Nixon. The dumbing down of the Republican platform into racism and bigotry has been underway since the 1960s. By 2016, even a sock puppet could sell it.

It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years, a fear and anger that’s rooted in our past but it’s also born out of the enormous upheavals that have taken place in your brief lifetimes.

... over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party -Barack Obama

[volstork]

8. Absolutely correct.

We need to drain this festering abscess (the GOP) in the body politic of our nation.

[subana]

6. I did not realize that

I watched the whole thing yesterday & never noticed that. Thanks for pointing that out. Joe showed us what a real President should be!

[GeorgeGist]

7. He knows where to find great speechwriters ...

Biden campaign hired former Bill Clinton, Obama speechwriter after first debate
BY TAL AXELROD - 07/16/19 09:07 PM EDT

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/453429-biden-campaign-hired-former-bill-clinton-obama-speechwriter-after-first

[crazytown]

9. The strongest moment in the address did not come from a speech writer

or at least, did not need to come from a speech writer.

It was when he was talking about the Con's re-election and said "I will not let that happen". The crowd rose to its feet.

[Hortensis]

10. I didn't see that. Thanks.

[stopbush]

11. That was a great speech.

I liked that he delivered it in a rather small meeting room.