Accepting the Democrat Party’s nomination for president Aug. 20, 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden answered an important question plaguing Democrats whether or not he could read a teleprompter. Whatever the contents of the speech, Biden answered at least some of his GOP critics fixated on questions about his cognitive functioning, turning into a gaffe machine in more spontaneous settings. Last night’s speech, beyond anything else, proved that Biden’s capable, whatever his limitations, of delivering s scripted speech on a teleprompter, upending the GOP narrative that he’s too impaired to pull it off. While there were still come minor glitches, Biden exceeded expectations that were set so low he was bound to succeed. Biden’s speech was written by veteran Democrat speechwriter Michael Sheehan of Sheehan Associates, who wrote speeches for former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Biden delivered Sheehan’s speech with better-than-expected control, erasing a GOP narrative that the 77-year-old VP wasn’t fit for duty. Well in the age of sound bites and teleprompters, Biden did plenty last night to help his cause heading into the Nov. 3 presidential election. “The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger, too much division,” Biden said, making his best case for changing horses in the fall. Whether Trump’s created the “darkness” is anyone’s guess, things certainly weren’t too hopeful during the riots, looting and anarchy during former President Barack Obama’s eight years. “If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness,” paraphrasing former President John Kennedy’s Jan. 20, 1961 Inaugural Address when he said, “We’re not here to curse the darkness.”
Biden’s no John F. Kennedy even though Sheehan recycled the old darkness metaphor. Democrats have turned 74-year-old President Donald Trump into the new “Darth Vader” or, for some folks “Simon Legree,” the fictional slave master in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” But apart from pure propaganda and demagoguery, Trump’s anything but the “white supremacist” portrayed by the Democrat Party or in the media. Biden doesn’t recall the July 7, 2016 police massacre by black militants in Dallas, Texas, after a string of racially tinged incidents sparking riots, looting, arson and anarchy under America’s first black president.. “We lead the world in deaths,” Biden said, blaming Trump for mismanaging the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 global pandemic. Sheehaan gave Biden all the defamatory talking points to impeach Trump’s credibility.
Biden speech suggests that he and his 55-year-old running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) would do a far better job than Trump in managing the Covid-19 crisis. After all, Biden’s only policy itemized in his 22-minute speech was his promise to order a nationwide mask mandate, assuming it’s still a problem next year. Obama and Biden made many promises during their eight years, including what to do with the Islamic State [IS] califphate, left for Trump to clean up. Obama and Biden couldn’t finish the job, instead spreading more terrorism in the Mideast and North Africa, toppling Col Muammar Gaddaffi Oct 20, 2011. Less than a year later Sept. 11, 2012, the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked by IS terrorists, killing U.S. Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton took the heat, but the policy was Obama and Biden’s.
Calling Trump’s Covid-19 “unforgivable,” Biden said he would do things differently. “On day one,” Biden said. “He would implement a national Covid-19 policy and mandate wearing masks,” hardly a policy that would do anything to stop the highly infectious virus that has decimated many countries, plunging the world economy into recession. Biden has no plan other that slamming Trump as part of Sheehan’s Democrat talking points. But when you think that blaming Trump for the Covid-19 crisis or the slide in the U.S. economy, it’s entirely disingenuous, knowing that Democrats could do no better, maybe worse. Sheehan’s speech connected all the Democrat Party talking points into a strong argument to change horses in November. Trump countered, saying Democrats, “They’re trying to steal the election,” promoting universal mail-in ballots delivered by the Post Office.
Biden pulled off a better-than-expected acceptance speech, well-written by his experienced Clinton-Obama speechwriter Michael Sheehan. Sheehan touched on all the Democrat Party talking points, blaming Trump for the Covid-19 crisis and economic fallout. When it comes to foreign policy, voters will have to figure out whether or not returning to Obama’s foreign policy makes any sense, including funding more Mideast wars or talking tough about confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin or other traditional foes. When it comes to robbing the country of democracy, Democrats did a good job of robbing Trump of his constitutional rights for his first term with illegal FBI investigations on baseless evidence concocted by Hillary and the DNC to help her get elected in 2016. Biden talks of ending “systemic racism” but only because it’s the fashionable thing to do in an election year.
