Dems’ Low Bar for Biden: A Good-Enough Speech
Joe Biden surprised his supporters and detractors alike by performing better than expected in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention. That’s the good news (Michael Goodwin, “Joe gets through it,” Aug. 21).
The bad news is that Biden’s performance has reset expectations for his ability to answer questions and debate President Trump. He will now be expected to get out of his basement and campaign. Anyone can have a good day. Biden now has to prove it wasn’t a fluke.
Jack Kaufman
Long Beach
What a gargantuan feat — a politician with almost 50 years’ experience got through a virtual acceptance speech. Low bar? How about no bar?
What is this stuff about “heading toward the light”? Sounds like a scene from “Poltergeist.”
And “devout” Catholics don’t support abortion. Get back in your basement, Joe — before Trump eats you alive.
Charlie Honadel
Venice, Fla.
At least we know that Biden, no doubt after a lot of speech preparation, can read from a teleprompter. His speech showed us nothing else.
Let’s see what happens when he has to stand up and answer face-to-face questions, without someone whispering in his ear or giving him a cheat sheet. This is where we’ll see the real Biden gaffes.
Harold Fishman
Manhattan
Goodwin’s piece sums up the sad condition of the Democrats’ politics. Biden managed to get through his acceptance speech without his usual malapropisms, slurring his words or suddenly walking off the stage.
We all know that if he is elected (heaven forbid!), we will actually be getting Crazy Bernie Sanders, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her antiSemitic Squad.
Furthermore, Biden will only be a placeholder for Kamala Harris. Put this all together and we will face a dystopic America unlike anything we could ever imagine.
If Joe Biden moves into the White House, I can envision that the first thing he will do is move the Oval Office into the basement.
Warren Goldfein Mount Arlington, NJ
Biden is getting acrossthe-board rave reviews for his Democratic presidential-nomination acceptance speech.
I have just one question: How are the Democrats going to defend Biden when Trump unveils an ad campaign depicting Biden openly admitting to the quid pro quo offense with Ukraine that the Democrats were so offended by that they impeached Trump?
If I know Trump, he’s going to relentlessly hammer Biden over this, making it an irresistible issue that even the mainstream media won’t be able to ignore.
In the history of my life, I’ve never seen a more flawed candidate — both physically and politically — than Biden. Making him the presidential nominee is tantamount to the Democrats committing elder abuse.
Eugene R. Dunn
Medford
The Democrats have finished their circus and taken down their tent.
Isn’t it wonderful that their choice for president is Joe Biden — who will be a lame-duck president in his first and only term?
Then they anointed Harris to be vice president. So now we have another senator in a jobtraining position.
And the Democrats say they’re going to make America hum again?
As a former registered Democrat, I’ll take the ego-driven Trump over Biden-Harris. At least he’s done some of the things he’s promised — probably might have done more if the sore losers in the House went along.
S. Kane
Brooklyn
Biden’s speech was a ho-hum variation on all the canned Trump’s-athreat-to-American-democracy nonsense mechanically issued by every speaker at the Democrats’ plastic, PC-theater convention.
Although Sleepy Joe hasn’t yet completely thrown in the towel to the Bernie-AOC wing of the party, if he gets elected, the so-called moderate wing will go the way of the dodo or, more precisely, the way of the Mensheviks.
James Hyland
Beechhurst