Opinion: What grade did Biden get on his speech to Congress CNN 4/29/2021 © Courtesy Nicole Hemmer Nicole Hemmer
CNN Opinion contributors grade President Joe Biden s first speech before a joint session of Congress.
Errol Louis: Biden s speech was focused, sharp and brilliant
Joe Biden took a pitch-perfect victory lap for reaching 200 million Covid vaccine doses administered in less than 100 days in office more than twice the number he d originally promised and going back to his campaign slogan of choosing hope over fear, truth over lies, light over darkness.
His sales job for the infrastructure plan was politically sharp, focused on items with broad support, like creating clean water systems, building a power grid and new roads and bridges and aimed directly at independent and working-class votes that strayed from the Democratic Party in recent years.
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Biden shares when he expects a return to normalcy 03:16 (CNN)When Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis ran for President against George H. W. Bush in 1988, he made competence one of his major campaign themes. Instead of claiming to be a visionary politician or a champion of liberalism, Dukakis highlighted his technocratic managerial expertise. This election isn t about ideology, Dukakis argued, It s about competence. It s not about meaningless labels; it s about American values old-fashioned values like accountability and responsibility and respect for the truth.
Julian Zelizer
The appeal didn t work. More voters were drawn to Vice President Bush, whose campaign manager Lee Atwater, along with consultant Roger Ailes, put together a blistering strategy that smeared Dukakis and rallied Americans around an unabashed patriotism. While Dukakis promised competence, Bush painted him as a radical card-carrying member of the ACLU who would allow Americans to burn flags and let