Joe Biden's half-hearted unity speech

Sunday night, Joe Biden gave his third address to the nation from the Oval Office, this time on the subject of national unity. I'm with Dana Perino on the speech. It was a great opportunity but Joe didn't rise to the opportunity. Instead, it seamed like Biden's speech seamed half-hearted. That's why I've given this article the title of "Joe Biden's half-hearted unity speech."

Biden opened his speech by saying "Someone opened fire at a Trump rally in Western Pennsylvania on Saturday, leaving one bystander and the shooter dead. Two other rally attendees were badly injured and the former president was grazed by a bullet on his right ear. Thankfully, former Trump is not seriously injured. I spoke with him last night and I'm grateful he's doing well."

I'm thankful that President Trump is healing. Rumor has it that he's rewriting his acceptance speech to be a call to unity. I hope that rumor is true. Real unity is required. What we got from Joe Biden tonight wasn't a full-throated call for national unity. This wasn't like his inaugural address for unity:

Biden didn't meet the moment during this section of the speech:
"The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It's time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do that," he said. "The power to change America should always rest in the hands of the people, not in the hands of a would-be assassin. An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation -- everything. It's not who we are as a nation. It's not America, and we cannot allow this to happen."
Does this sound like Biden's fighting for unity?

That isn't lowering the temperature. That's like taking a blowtorch to the thought of unity and lighting the subject on fire. If Joe Biden was interested in unifying the nation, he should've said that he's ordering Secretary Mayorkas to increase the size of President Trump's Secret Service detail. Further, Biden could've ordered Secretary Mayorkas to extend Secret Service protection to Bobby Kennedy Jr., too. Those would've been legitimate, constructive ideas to bring the nation together. Instead, we got platitudes. Joe Biden missed the opportunity because his heart is only half in it.

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