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Joe Biden Has Reason to Fear His First State of the Union Address

Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2022
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AMAC Exclusive – By Alan Jamison

One of the first big political events of the new year is typically the president’s annual State of the Union Address, which is rightly considered the “Super Bowl” of presidential events. This most widely anticipated speech of the political year usually takes place in January, except for extraordinary circumstances like a government shutdown. In fact, no commander-in-chief of the modern era has ever given a State of the Union address later than February 12.  This year, however, Americans may have to wait weeks or even months longer than usual to hear President Biden deliver his first formal State of the Union. According to reports, the White House is considering March 1 as a potential date for the speech, leading many political observers to ask an obvious question – why the delay?

While the White House hasn’t offered any explanation, one seemingly clear answer is that by any reasonable measure, the state of the union under Joe Biden is very bad.  And when it comes specifically to his performance on COVID-19, Biden’s record is awful. Biden promised throughout his 2020 campaign to get the pandemic under control by using the authority of the federal government. But the country is now seeing more than 1 million cases per day, five times more than ever before. More Americans died of COVID-19 in 2021 than all of 2020, restaurants and businesses are struggling to keep their doors open, and schools are shutting back down in a similar fashion as to when the pandemic first hit the United States. Americans are even struggling to find over-the-counter COVID-19 tests weeks after Biden promised to make 500 million tests available for free.

To make matters worse, just days ago Biden appeared to throw up his hands in defeat, claiming that there was “no federal solution” to the pandemic. This also comes after Biden declared victory over the virus in a speech last summer, and before that was handed three vaccines and the most robust testing operation in the world by the Trump administration.

Given this objective reality, it makes perfect sense to postpone the State of the Union speech for as long as possible, hoping that political circumstances change before March 1.  It will be hard to either ignore or explain away his failures on COVID-19 in such a high-profile speech if there’s no good news to report. So it’s a good bet for Mr. Biden to delay –  as his pandemic performance can’t get much worse, while the natural course of the virus is likely to result in dramatically declining cases and deaths before March 1. 

As Politico reported earlier this week, Biden administration officials “are hoping this surge drops dramatically in the next few weeks.” If that is the case, a decline in case numbers could provide Mr. Biden with a slight reprieve if he chooses to delay his State of the Union address until March. After all, at the current rate of infection, most Americans may have already had COVID-19 by March 1.

However, even if the pandemic does abate somewhat in the coming weeks, that likely won’t distract much from the litany of other crises facing the nation. The annual inflation rate in the United States recently reached the highest level in nearly four decades, as prices reportedly increased by 5.7% through November of last year. Supply chain issues have also ravaged the nation over the past few months, leaving store shelves empty as families prepared for the holidays. Add to that a border crisis, crime wave, and numerous foreign policy fiascos, and the American people are unlikely to buy any positive spin Biden’s speechwriters attempt to put on what was a disastrous first year in office. 

The White House may also now find themselves grasping for what to say in the speech to rally Congressional Democrats given that they have already failed to pass his main agenda items despite having control of both chambers of Congress. Throughout his 2020 campaign, Mr. Biden promised to enact a sweeping far-left agenda to appease progressives, but Joe Manchin just delivered what could be a knockout blow to the White House’ signature spending plan that included many of those left-wing priorities like Green New Deal-type climate policies and massively expanded government welfare. Accordingly, Mr. Biden’s advisors may be trying to buy themselves time, hoping that Congress will pass something that they can tout as an accomplishment so that they do not have to send Joe Biden to Capitol Hill to pitch an agenda that appears to already be dead in the water.

There’s also the fact that Mr. Biden has struggled through a number of far lower-profile speeches throughout his first year in office, often appearing confused or misspeaking at the podium. Aides seem to be acutely aware of his shortcomings as a public speaker, and have made numerous attempts to shield him from the spotlight and prevent him from taking questions from reporters. Perhaps with more time to prepare, Biden’s handlers are hopeful that the President can deliver a passable performance.

Such motivations may have been at play last year as well, when Biden waited a shockingly long time to deliver his first Address to a Joint Session of Congress, the special name given to the State-of-the-Union-like speech a president gives shortly after taking office. Biden pushed it all the way back to April 28. When Biden finally did give the speech, it was to lackluster response, with even liberal commentators on television conceding it was an uninspiring “laundry list.” Biden also waited more than 100 days to give his first solo press conference, when all of his 15 most recent predecessors had given one within 33 days of taking office.

Even if Congress does manage to pass a bill, or virus case numbers do come down, Mr. Biden will still have a herculean task ahead of him when he finally decides to deliver his State of the Union Address this year. As Americans face one crisis after another and Democrats have been frustrated by divisions within their own party, it seems that few people on either side of the political aisle are satisfied with Mr. Biden’s leadership. For the White House, this creates the unenviable situation of trying to craft a speech that no one will be satisfied with, looking for answers that may, quite simply, not exist.

And if the State of the Union is anything like one of the major sporting events of the year, there’s also the question of whether this year’s speech will elicit echoes of the same cheer that has made its way to stadiums and race tracks across the country: “Let’s Go Brandon!”

Americans will probably have to wait another month or two to see.

Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.

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Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders
2 years ago

I am 82 years old and this creep Biden is a miserable disaster unleased upon the American people by the Democrat Party that has no soul no morality or any kind of wisdom and grace. Biden needs to be given a glass of hemlock and left in a wheat field somewhere no one can find the bastard!

Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders
2 years ago

I am 82 years old and this creep Biden is a miserable disaster unleased upon the American people by the Democrat Party that has no soul no morality or any kind of wisdom and grace. Biden needs to be given a glass of hemlock and left in a wheat field somewhere no one can find the bastard!

Don Baker
Don Baker
2 years ago

I am 79 years old and I have never seen a president as clueless and incompetent as Biden. He did accomplish one thing that I thought was an impossibility, and was to make Carter look competent. In his entire political career this buffoon has never made a correct decision on any issue. He is a liar, a crook and totally corrupt. He displays an intense hatred for our bill of rights ad represents a clear and present danger to the United States.

Rich C
Rich C
2 years ago

If, as Biden says, there is no federal solution, why do we even need a state of the union speech? OK, there really IS a “federal” solution. It’s called the socialist agenda. If anything doesn’t meet the “agenda”, there is no solution. Otherwise you better believe there’s a solution for their agenda. It’s called Reshaping America for the masses that will be required to submit to whatever the “government” decides the people must do. The less the people think, the better the control. We are right on track for what these communists want. Wake up people! 2022 may be our last chance to start turning this sinking ship around, to save this nation.

JayBeeEs
JayBeeEs
2 years ago

Biden is a senile political hack.

michael right
michael right
2 years ago

i personally cannot wait for the speech. I already have pools going for how long into the speech before:
he coughs
he says “folks”
he says “pandemic of the unvaccinated”
he says “get vaccinated”
he says” the situation we inherited”
he says “America is back”
he says “my build back better plan”
he says “let me repeat that”
he say “president harris”
tells a story about his dad

this will be fun! join the fun, America!

Jeanette
Jeanette
2 years ago

Biden has been “often appearing confused or misspeaking” even since his “speeches” when running for President. It is obvious he is suffering from confusion/dementia and someone else is pulling the puppet strings and telling him what to do. So sad and scary a situation. I miss Trump. Decisive and effective.

LW
LW
2 years ago

I’d feel sorry for Biden if his inadequacies weren’t dismantling and destroying so many American lives. It’s so frustrating to see the Democrats hide their heads in the sand and not stand up for life, freedom, and pursuit of happiness. It saddens me that the corruptions in the Democratic Party are not prosecuted and are ignored. Americans can’t win but we need to stand together against his policies. Do it right. Do it legally.

Karen E Joslin
Karen E Joslin
2 years ago

I wish there was someone standing behind Sleepy Joe that could tear up his speech when he is finished. Maybe next year if he lasts that long. I only gave him til March of 2021 and Kameltoe would take over, but I guess they kept him awake for a whole year.

Craig Anderson
Craig Anderson
2 years ago

Not sure why he would shy away from his “record”

Record Trans Deaths

Record Police Deaths

Record COVID deaths

Record Drug Overdose Deaths

Record Border Apprehensions

Record Illegal Border Crossings

Record Murders in 16 Democratic Run Large Cities

Near Record Violent Crime and Murders

Near Record Inflation

More Military Deaths in Afghanistan in 2021 than ALL of 2020

Burning more Coal in 2021 than 2020 one factor in the 17% increase in emissions vs 2020

HocasPocas
HocasPocas
2 years ago

There’s nothing to spin. The American Citizens are onto bumbling biden, kackling jakas, jen sucki, check schlimer, fancy piglosi and the rest of the cartel.

Anne L Skeens
Anne L Skeens
2 years ago

I don’t know if it benefits anyone to hear all of these insulting and rude comments. Does Amac review comments before they are posted? What happened to a standard of decent communication among mature adults? I know many are displeased with how things are going in this presidency; as well as myself. I just don’t feel that rude and humiliating comments do any of us any good. Let’s raise the standard of communication to a level of maturity that seems to have been lost along with common sense.

George Craig
George Craig
2 years ago

Did Let’s Go Brandon tell the truth in a senior moment when he said there is no federal solution to the pandemic? If so, wouldn’t that mean the federal government should do nothing about the pandemic? PROBLEM SOLVED!

Cindy
Cindy
2 years ago

Biden claiming there is “no federal solution”, (under the current administration) is probably one of the only true and factual statements he’s made so far.

Amanda
Amanda
2 years ago

Hey creepy Joe , don’t put yourself out since you haven’t so far.So what’s the point ? I don’t know why anyone would want to watch it. All you do is whisper or yell at the American people. Face it, your a failure at everything you touch, or who ever is pulling your puppet strings. How can you do this much damage in one year ? SMH

BalzarFreezenov
BalzarFreezenov
2 years ago

Multiple draft deferment bottom of his class pants shytter Joe wont be able to put a coherrent sentence together, so its all moot.

Jo B
Jo B
2 years ago

It would be great if Congress threw tomatoes at this guy during the speech

LONDEN
LONDEN
2 years ago

The Biden report card for 2020: Inflation/Economy – F….Foreign Policy – F….Border Security – F….Military – F….Education – F….COVID pandemic – D minus. If I’d have brought home a report card like that, my Dad would have whupped me good…

Becky
Becky
2 years ago

Biden (or barack, really) has caused massive ill health in our beloved country. It has been deliberately caused by these Communists now fighting over the coffee grounds they’ve left behind.
There is nothing the demented old fool can say that will fix (or alter their reality) their mess.

Skeptic
Skeptic
2 years ago

His keepers don’t know what to do. They do know that there is no chance that he can get through a State of the Union address without getting lost and babbling incoherently several times. There only hope is to get the idiots who still support him to not watch. The rest of us already know he is a demented old barm pot so no further harm can be done if we watch.

BidensTeleprompter
BidensTeleprompter
2 years ago

2019: “I will stop covid!!! — 2020: “Covid is over, mission accomplished!!” 2021: “Fixing covid is a state solution. You cant expect the federal government to fix it! Come on, man! The thing!!”

Joanne 4 justice.
Joanne 4 justice.
2 years ago

Why would Biden even have a state address? Nothing good to report and the same old lying -, cheating and strategy is getting very very sick and passe!!!!!!

james heidel
james heidel
2 years ago

The dems thinking Biden will somehow get smarter by March 1st is pretty funny.

Andrew P
Andrew P
2 years ago

Maybe Biden will die of COVID during his speech. I can see it now. He mumbles his lines unintelligibly off the teleprompter, with lots of coughing, then starts coughing blood, has a stroke, and dies. Kamala Harris sits right behind him, and the Chief Justice swears her in immediately. It would be a proper and fitting end to Dementia Joe’s Presidency.

Jeanette
Jeanette
2 years ago

Stating “often appearing confused or misspeaking at the podium” that’s been true since before he was elected. Clearly confused and muddled even then. And now is a catastrophe. I think the plan was to make Kamela Harris the actual one to run things all along, and that is even more frightful.

John Bauman
John Bauman
2 years ago

I think they should consider April 1st.

Pete M.
Pete M.
2 years ago

Buck Fiden!!!

Gary p Smith
Gary p Smith
2 years ago

I went to the local supermarket yesterday, and the meat case had 20 feet of empty shelves where the chicken usually was found. Well, I say empty, but there were a few packs of gizzards and one lonely split chicken breast! Then I went to Wal-Mart today, and witnessed the same barren shelves in the pet food aisle. Not one can of cat food to be found! But hey, at least there are no mean tweets …

Darlene
Darlene
2 years ago

They want it to be closer to the mid-term primaries, and he will fill it full of lies, lies, lies that the clueless and low-information voters will fall for.

Steven
Steven
2 years ago

They are finalizing the rationale for not having a State of the Union address.
Before someone claims that is unconstitutional, the Constitution doesn’t actually require a formal address. It requires that the President, from time to time provide Congress with information regarding the state of the Union. It doesn’t specify the frequency or form. As once stated on a TV drama, it could theoretically be fulfilled by buying Congress a subscription to the Wall Street Journal.

Greg Daniels
Greg Daniels
2 years ago

Maybe he can make the entire talk about the ‘insurrection.’ I’m sure his supporters would like that.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
2 years ago

I’ve no doubt if Biden went on TV and drooled for 90-minutes, CNN would call it the “most inspiring speech since Lincolns Gettsburg Address”! With Brandon + Our Gang running things, the big news story is not how another thing goes disastrously wrong but when or if he ever got anything RIGHT… that would be AMAZING.

Bill Davidson
Bill Davidson
2 years ago

The speech itself will praise the administration with one accomplishment after another, none of which will be true. People won’t tune in for the speech they are watching for the show. I give maybe ten, he may stretch it out to fifteen minutes and it’s time for handshakes and lids! I wonder if he will mention anything about inflation, Afghanistan, schools, oil, or crime? Poor guy will be so out of breath Cornpop could blow him over.

Duane
Duane
2 years ago

A picture of self delusion and living in a fantasy land. Eaten up by arrogance and pride.

Pt202086
Pt202086
2 years ago

Maybe it’s time to deliver the SOTU as a memo. There’s nothing in the Constitution requiring the BS political circus it has become.

Chipper
Chipper
2 years ago

The Puppet-in-Chief will appear on video on a big screen in Congress, supposedly “live,” from his fake White House set. In reality, it will be a heavily-edited pre-recorded presentation. His handlers will spend all day recording multiple “takes” of all sections of his script… then they will edit together the “keepers,” the best takes they can get out of him for each script segment. This technique is normal for a lot of media production, especially presentations with CEOs and presidents of corporations who are not good on camera.

Here’s what to look for:
– multiple camera angles: the image will leap from a wider framing to a tighter close-up, and back… and possibly a “side angle” camera as well.
– lots of “cover shots” of computer graphics (economic charts and such) and “b-roll footage” of the president working, out in public, or other footage.
– strange “jumps” and changes in speech flow, cadence, volume, and tone of voice when the camera shot changes. This results from stringing together portions of different “takes”… there is no natural “flow” of the dialogue, because it has been chopped up and re-assembled.

There’s no way the senile drooling vegetable can pull off a legit State of the Union. There aren’t enough chemicals in the world to pump him up. Mark my words… it will be on screen, as a “safety precaution” against COVID… which will give them the excuse to fake it.

sly311
sly311
2 years ago

He’s never gonna pull it off. End of story.

Kenneth M. Woelfer
Kenneth M. Woelfer
2 years ago

Sleeepy Joe’s SOTU speech will be the biggest work of fiction of all time, and provide many months of fodder for both sides of the aic

Bob Ewalt
Bob Ewalt
2 years ago

Maybe he, or his staff, should just prepare a written State of the Union document for Congress. This was the process for many years.

Nessie509
Nessie509
2 years ago

If Team Biden wants COVID cases to decline by March, just stop testing.
All the testing does is feed the narrative that COVID BAD! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
In fact people aren’t dying from Omicron.

charliehorse
charliehorse
2 years ago

The Pelosi Candle Light Vigil Production to commemorate the Jan 6th was a Progressives only affair and was a pathetic event where the name of the only person murdered that day, Ashli Babbitt, wasn’t even mentioned.

It’ll be tough for Biden to top the theater of DJT’s State of the Union Speech where the Empress tore her copy to bits on national TV coverage.

MarkmyWords
MarkmyWords
2 years ago

2022 state of the union…” It’s a mess. I made a mess of everything…There is no Federal solution to this mess.”J BidenIn A Real World

dkp2015
dkp2015
2 years ago

Well yeah!!! What is this idiot going to present as accomplishments??? The only thing they have done is pass the bill that made inflation go through the roof. All’s this moron will do is go on and on about how horrible Donny is, how Donny is such a liar when every word that has come out of brandon and his administrations mouths has been a total lie. Look at the lies the supreme court justice spewed just yesterday. Then of course we will have to listen for 30 minutes on his success on the kung flu cure!!!

BobA
BobA
2 years ago

Won’t be able to sit and watch him staring at the tele-prompter and reading his speech.

Bob L.
Bob L.
2 years ago

The vaccines don’t work as advertised nor do masks, social distancing, lockdowns, travel bans, or any other restrictive measure. Americans, like people in many other parts of the world have had enough of suppressive demands on freedoms and are increasingly pushing back against tyranny.

The “panicdemic” has been used as cover for numerous other central power takeover agenda moves. Economic control is a big thing, next to conditioning the public to accept government directives without question, legal or not. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy and shutdowns and restrictions have put a very large number of small businesses permanently out of business. Government (Covid relief) payments to people NOT TO GO BACK TO WORK has and is further crippling small businesses while also contributing to shortages of consumer goods in the (big box) stores that remain. What hasn’t been in short supply over the last two years – Non-essential holiday decorations for every holiday have been an overstock issue while some grocery shelves often are sparsely stocked or bare. Can you see a misplaced priority problem here? We have seen the first rationing of home life essential items like paper goods, meat, etc. snice World War 2 during the last two years. No, we weren’t issued ration coupon books, but were limited by signs on store shelves saying LIMIT ONE OR TWO per customer. Our biggest “supply chain” problem is one of distance from source to market. Our main supply chain is 6,000 miles long and “chain” is a key word since an enemy of all America stands for holds the controlling end of that chain and can cut it off if and when they chose to do so. Almost everything we need should be produced here in America thus not subject to foreign influence or control. It would be better for quality and our economy. Red China is the world power it is today because WE built it through economic development – “free” (mostly one way) trade. Our trade deficit is as huge today as it ever has been, in the hundreds of billions of dollars in their favor. There should be absolutely NO trade deficit at all.

We, the American public are in a very precarious position today, we have enemies both within and without our borders, working together to crush what America was and still precariously clings to. Not only is the foundation of our nation being eroded, but every effort to undermine the will and desire of personal choices and freedoms are being employed through propaganda and mandate.

Larkenson
Larkenson
2 years ago

Anti-White liberals and respectable conservatives that support massive third-world immigration and FORCED assimilation for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries say that they are anti-racist, but their policies will lead to a world with no White people i.e White Genocide.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.

Gabba Gabba
Gabba Gabba
2 years ago

*biden cannot pull off an extended 20 minutes plus speech. No way. The puppeteers and the handlers can do all the prepping they want…….and then Joe will go out there and blow it.

Brooke Samuelson
Brooke Samuelson
2 years ago

Impeachment becomes more and more a reality, even for Democrats. The problem becomes how atrocious the replacements would be………….

Rik
Rik
2 years ago

Bumbling Biden, our so-called “elected” President! . . . He isn’t even qualified to be “elected” dog catcher!

James Young
James Young
2 years ago

If you DON’T think Biden is going to praise himself and administration for the great job they have done, you do not understand the LEFT. He is going to continue to LIE to the American people, like he has this first year. Come on Man!!!

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