Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread.
This is probably one of the most important speeches Biden can give this year. He has to come across as “Present”, not just “President”.
This will set the tone for the campaign the rest of the year and will be second only to the Democratic Convention speech in August for visibility.
Watch it live here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/
Or through your favorite news source.
The Republican response will be delivered by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236338784/katie-britt-alabama-republican-biden-state-of-the-union
Very good speech!
Full transcript is here:
https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/
Republican response from Katie Britt here:
I encourage you to watch the video and not just read the transcript. Reading it doesn’t carry just how breathless and borderline weepy her delivery is.
I don’t know where else to post this, so here goes
I’m sad that Obama never adopted the “-nomics” moniker that Reagan and Biden have. Obamanomics just rolls off the tongue
https://youtu.be/TbZ_hTEOKZc
Obama didn’t have to rip off a failed actor who had Alzheimer’s most of his presidency…
This year both candidates are giving it a go.
Fun fact:
The early signs of Reagan’s Alzheimer’s was pretty much the same things Biden and trump have been doing. Mixing up words/places/times and drifting off, before coming back to their old selves.
But it doesn’t get better. Everytime the “old self” sticks around less and the confusion comes back faster. It’s a 100% natural part of aging that we’ll all be lucky to live long enough for it to happen to us.
Our brains can’t work forever.
And Reagan was only 69 when he took office, 12 years younger than Biden is now…