Boston Herald

Biden divides the nation, conquers nothing

- Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachuse­tts political reporter and columnist.

Talk about hate speech. No president had ever talked this way.

If Joe Biden did not have hate in his soul for Donald Trump he’d have nothing to talk about.

That what his

“Soul of the Nation” speech last week was all about. But it was not only a clenched fist hate speech against Trump, it included the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020, and who will vote for him again in 2024.

These Americans are Hillary Clinton’s “deplorable­s.”

“MAGA Republican­s are destroying our democracy,” Biden said. “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republican­s represent an extremism that threatens the very foundation­s of our Republic.”

The dark red backdrop and the dim lighting made Biden’s speech stage look like a Satanic stage production— or a video from Hunter Biden’s laptop — as Jill Biden, the president’s wife, escorted the wobbly president to the podium. Two Marines stood guard

If this was Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” speech, his “Brain of the Nation” speech will be boffo.

The speech without doubt was the most unpresiden­tial address ever given by a sitting American president. It was brainless as well. Biden, who promised to unite the country, did more to divide the county in one speech than did any past president.

Someone must have put the speech in a teleprompt­er with a note that read, “Joe, this is your speech. Talk tough. Shout. It’s not a joke.”

Threat to democracy? The last threat to American democracy was World War II, which we won. Now Trump and half the country are another threat? What rubbish.

Biden made no mention of the real threats facing the country under his leadership. These include threats coming from expansioni­st Communist China with its pending invasion of Taiwan, or its new associatio­n with Russia and Iran.

Nor did Biden mention the threat to democracy coming from the invasion by 2 million unvaccinat­ed illegal immigrants now that he has turned control of the southern border over to the Mexican cartels.

That surge includes the influx of terrorists, sex trafficker­s, criminals and drug smugglers bringing in deadly fentanyl that is killing so many Americans.

Biden is the first president in U.S. history to authorize a police raid on the home of a former president. And Trump and MAGA are a threat to democracy? No, the threat is that Trump will beat Biden if Biden runs for re-election.

Not only was Biden’s speech a national embarrassm­ent, but it was also a missed opportunit­y to unite and inspire the nation.

With the two Marines at his back, Biden, upon the one-year anniversar­y of his botched withdrawal from Afghanista­n, could have paid tribute to the 13 Americans — 11 Marines, one Army soldier and one Navy corpsman — who were killed at the Kabul Airport during the evacuation.

Or, with the upcoming 21st anniversar­y of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S., Biden could have commiserat­ed with the families of those killed. He could have reported on the war against terrorism, and the recent killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri.

While Biden spoke, Artemis I, the huge space rocket, was sitting on its launch pad in Florida ready to take off for the moon. It is the first U.S. mission to the moon since American astronauts landed there 50 years ago.

President John F. Kennedy in 1961 raised the spirits of the nation when he promised that America, behind in the space race with the Soviet Union, would land a man on the moon. We did.

Now, locked in another space race with Communist China, we are going back, this time with a female astronaut and an astronaut of color. He could have lifted the spirits of the nation around that.

Biden is no JFK, but he could have tried to rally, inspire and unite the nation. Instead, he dumped on it.

 ?? AP ?? SHORT ON INSPIRATIO­N: President Biden arrives with first lady Jill Biden to speak outside Independen­ce Hall in Philadelph­ia last week.
AP SHORT ON INSPIRATIO­N: President Biden arrives with first lady Jill Biden to speak outside Independen­ce Hall in Philadelph­ia last week.
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