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To the editor:
It has been a couple weeks since Biden delivered his State of the Union Campaign Speech. Let's review some of the highlights.
Biden left the White House late and after a lengthy walk down the aisle, finally started his speech at 9:26 pm. Biden had definitely been given some pharmaceuticals as he was "high."
His walk down the aisle was carefully choreographed so that he took one or two steps then stopped the whole way down, thus keeping him from falling. His speech was written with 80 one-liners with exclamation points to elicit applause, which gave him time to make sure he was in the right place on the teleprompter. He seemed to read well, but then he was prompted to mention Laken Riley, the nursing student who was killed by an illegal alien. He started to mumble. He called her Lincoln. His "condolences" to the parents included mention of his own children's deaths. The next day he apologized for calling the illegal "an illegal" but never apologized for mispronouncing Laken's name. Is he the president of legal citizens or illegal aliens?
The speech itself was a flight of ideas. He started with Ukraine, the Middle East, abortion, IVF, the Freedom to Vote Act, the economy, the job market, Medicare prescription drugs, shrinkflation and many more topics. Let's look at some of those topics.
We sent billions of dollars to Ukraine with no accounting of how the funds have been used and no demand for an end to that war. Biden has done nothing to deter Iran, who funded the Hamas terror attack on Israel, killing 1,200 Jews and capturing hostages. Biden is pushing for an end to that war. Some of those hostages are Americans, who were not mentioned in the speech. Biden is falling for the Hamas lies about the deaths of Palestinians. We are sending supplies to Gaza, but nothing to Israel, our ally. Biden refers to the murder of babies by abortion as "women's reproductive care" and believes it should happen at any time during pregnancy.
What is the Freedom to Vote Act? We need secure elections with verification of identity. We are suffering from inflation.
Every week the price of groceries goes up. I use many coupons at the grocery store and fast-food restaurants, since prices of everything, including gasoline and utilities, have gone up. Shrinkflation is a way for companies to keep their prices from going up, since companies are also experiencing inflation due to Bidenomics. Biden mentioned "my predecessor" 13 times and blamed "his predecessor" for all his failures. Biden called people like me disparaging names, because we question the way he is running our country.
The State of the Union Address is a speech that had always been presented in a formal, professional manner. Whether we agreed with the president or not, no presidents resorted to name-calling and blaming others for the state of the union. Biden's state of the union address was a failure.
Michalene A. King
Wintersville