'I will stand in this breach... I will defend this nation.'

[bigtree]

“I did not seek this fight…,
but I will not shrink from it either.
I will stand in this breach…"




"I will defend this nation.
I will allow no one to place a dagger
at the throat of our democracy.”



...

[Walleye]

1. I'm sure he had help from a speech writer, but it sounds like all Joe Biden to me

[bigtree]

3. I'm old enough to remember Sen. Biden holding court on the Senate floor

...pacing back and forth on the platform-like area behind his seat, speaking eloquently, without notes, for hours about foreign policy and other Democratic initatives and interests.

[Walleye]

4. Yes I remember in particular the speech where he excoriated Republicans for their apartheid policy

[orangecrush]

13. Here

But on the one-year anniversary of a historic day, Biden not only signed off on the fiery tone he brought to his speech marking the occasion at the Capitol, he also helped write some of the lines himself.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/politics/inside-biden-january-6-speech/index.html

[Walleye]

14. Yes. I thought so. He has the moral authority. And he loves the United States.

A dagger at the threat of democracy. Great imagery

[calimary]

18. Yeah. A vivid mental picture that conjures up.

Superb!

Loved it!

Way to go, Joe!

Go get ‘em, Joe!

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. K&R

[Beartracks]

5. Love that 2nd photo.

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[keithbvadu2]

6. When Trump defended this nation...

"I feel like a great and very brave soldier"

[TheRealNorth]

7. This was up there with the Gettysburg Address

....The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

—Abraham Lincoln

[Walleye]

15. I was thinking the same thing.When I was in third grade I memorized the speech.Recited at assembly

I thought today’s speech had some of the same kind of simple but powerful prose. Including the humility of Abraham Lincoln

[Jamesm9164]

8. Yup

JOE

[calimary]

9. Yup.

JOE.

A President we can all be proud of, again. A man WORTHY of that job, and that Oval Office.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Joe, that was a damn good speech. What do we do next to keep our democracy?

The GOP is doing hand to hand combat taking control of our state voting systems. Their propaganda is brutal, pervasive and effective.

[ecstatic]

11. That was a great speech.

I'm really glad he didn't sugarcoat things.

[orangecrush]

12. Something in my eye...

[marieo1]

16. Love our President!!

Wow.........After hearing our President's speech, I feel wonderful knowing President Joe Biden is fighting for us. God Bless you, Joe and Kamala and thank you!!!!

[Collimator]

17. When Biden said ,"He's not only a former president. . .

. . . he's a defeated president. He lost!" with such forceful simplicity--I have to tell you, I may have gone through menopause ten years ago, but I could feel the ovaries crank up production in that moment.