Biden SOTU

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(02-08-2023, 02:43 PM)basballguy Wrote: I think the booing was pretty stupid....i think when either party decides to make the SOTU about them it's incredibly stupid.  Biden isn't talking to congress, he's talking to us...they're just there to listen.  

That's one of the things Biden does right.  He acknowledges the hecklers, but doesn't tend to get overly involved in playing their games.  In that sense, going back to the 2020 election debate with Trump, I think he resonates with voters by speaking to them while semi-ignoring the noise that bombards him and the voters.  Hillary dismissed Trump and the MAGA movement as being something that had no chance of taking hold, and Biden learned from that error.

MTG is in a safe district where she can just appeal to her voter base who elected her to scream and break the rules and do stuff you label as "stupid."  That's not his opponent on the national stage (though she could be Trump's VP for all we know), but he knows enough to let her show people what the GOP tolerates and celebrates.

Biden also used the "I don't want to hurt your reputation" line for Mitch McConnel, and that is a bit of a clever way to show the general populace that compromise and reaching across the aisle has become taboo, especially for the GOP side of things.  Was this a SOTU?  Technically, but this is mostly campaigning for 2024, isn't it?  What isn't?  Politics is a team sport and they're always campaigning now because winning elections is what the public deems most important.