President Joe Biden’s Wednesday night Oval Office address has been widely panned on the right (and much ballyhooed on the left). After nearly a week of no visible sign of the president and coming on the heels of his COVID diagnosis and rather odd Sunday Twitter announcement of his bowing out of the 2024 presidential race, his remarks were highly anticipated — from multiple perspectives.
Here at RedState, we had a spirited liveblog of the event and, yes, spent much of it snarking at the production (and the, uh, substance of Biden’s remarks).
But I have a confession to make: I actually liked the speech. Maybe even loved it. Now, hear me out:
- He was pretty much on time with it. The speech was set to be delivered at 8:00 pm Eastern, and Biden began speaking by roughly 8:02 pm. Given his penchant for being late — often very late — for such events/addresses, I appreciated the…
