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Why Not Mail It In
If not falling asleep is the measure of success, President Joe Biden carried the night, reports Christopher Bedford in Spectator.
Republicans might have been disappointed that Joe Biden didn’t slur his words or bungle names of living colleagues with dead ones.
In American Spectator Daniel Oliver called it the worst State of the Union, by far.
(Joe Biden), who was almost a half hour late, forgot to allow the Speaker of the House to introduce him, as is customary. The president comes as a visitor to the House of Representatives and to Congress, and it is customary, as well as polite, not to speak until introduced. Was he so informed? Did he need to be so informed?
He has spent almost his entire life in Washington. That he couldn’t remember that simple courtesy raises precisely the doubts about his abilities that his performance was meant to dispel.
Had he been reminded (instructed?) to allow the speaker to introduce him? If not, why not? Or did he simply forget?
In the old days, presidents mailed their thoughts on the state of the union to Congress.
Not all progress is good.
