Historians have noted even for the most experienced and knowledgeable of politicians, it takes a year for a U.S. President to find their footing in the White House.
Between the State of the Union and his leadership in bringing the world together against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden showed why he was elected President.
Biden and officials in his administration have been at the forefront of sanctions attempting to cripple the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin. They have been prudent on what aid to and not give to Ukraine as not to expand the conflict into a battle that would give Putin an excuse to attack NATO nations and draw us into war.
The President has been forthright with Americans that these actions were going to cause financial hardships at home, especially at the gas pump. But they are needed as the U.S. can not stand by while a democratic ally faces an unprovoked attack.
As for his domestic agenda, President Biden’s address before Congress was most notable for his full-throated declaration that Democrats would not be any part of defunding the police. For a presidency that at times seemed hijacked by the extreme left elements of his party, it was a call to remind Dems to listen to the majority of Americans who are centrists.
Additionally, he reiterated his policy goals of passing legislation to address climate change, reducing healthcare costs and bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. This is an agenda that got stalled not due to being unpopular but because of the price tag.
And President Biden was right to pivot to no longer governing through the spectrum of COVID. The numbers show it was time and, most importantly, the American people understood that the plan of vaccine, testing and therapies allowed us to move forward to live with the coronavirus and be prepared if a surge occurs.
Most notably for us, he went on the offensive and talked about the accomplishments of his administration during his just-over first year in office. There was the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, the American Rescue Plan, job growth and his focus on easing the supply chain bottleneck. Yes, inflation does damper these accomplishments. But think where the U.S. economy would be without this progress.
We were heartened to hear his commitment to continue to work across the aisle after signing 80 bipartisan bills into law last year. He offered four areas—combating the opioid epidemic, funding mental health resources for the youngest affected by the pandemic and social media, increasing funding to support veterans facing health issues from burn pits, and to supercharging the Cancer Moonshot he started six years ago—that all Americans want to see done.
The President ended his address by stating “As hard as those times have been, I’m more optimistic about America today than I’ve been my whole life because I see the future that’s within our grasp, because I know there is simply nothing beyond our capacity.”
We are not naive—we know there are big problems that America is facing, kitchen table issues that have us all worried.
But that was why Biden was elected, because over 80 million voters saw a man that believes in the greatness of America to get us through these times together. After a year of growing into the job, it is good to see the Joe Biden we elected has returned when the U.S. and the world needs him the most.
“Between the State of the Union and his leadership in bringing the world together against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden showed why he was elected President.”
And from the outset, he deserved to be respected for his leadership through the Covid quagmire plus his vision for a better Americans, including those who don’t like him, often via a knee-jerk reaction prompted by the right-wing media.
What an incredibly naive and ignorant opinion piece. I voted for Mr Biden and I cannot think of one thing I feel confident in or a positive accomplishment. We are in worse shape now by far than when he took office across the board. Economically, domestically and internationally.
Oh please.
Biden did not unite the world against Russia. He was invited to the table. The U.S. has vastly lost its influence in matters of foreign affairs. We are no longer seen as the strong, superpower not to be trifled with. We are now, “That country over there that stamps its feet and yells ‘stop, please stop'”. Quoting Robin Williams, “Like a traffic cop on Valium.”
Where do I buy what you are smoking?
Wait a second, this must be a joke. Biden is the most incompetent senile fool perhaps ever to “occupy” (double quotes intended) the WH. And every day Harris reminds us why she’s totally unfit to be anywhere near the VP slot.
Not sure even the people who falsified all the ballots wanted this empty shell of a man to bring us to the brink of WW III by cowering to Russia, causing inflation not seen since Carter, and giving us $5 gas.
This opinion piece is so ludicrous it’s shameful that it was published!
Question: Are you stoned? 😵💫
This president ignores home issues with inflation out of controlling, destroying our abilities you remain energy independent and continues to ignore his promises to unite the country.
Biden wasn’t elected
The state of the union was a disaster as was Afghanistan and the rest of his continuous failures, which led to this
Biden wasn’t elected
This commentary seems to be written by Putin himself!
There is nothing that Joe Biden has contributed to this country except lies and deceit.
He continue to be ignorant about the main critical issues facing our country. The Border which is a total fiasco of which he continues to deny and ignore responsibility The energy crisis which has contributed to an amazing raise in inflation. His green objective is welcomed but not at this time or place. Too soon.
Afghanistan which was a complete cluster! Come on our troops and our alliances deserve better. In the future I doubt that any country’s patriots would dare to support the US because Biden would go back on his word.
This current war is just not Ukraine’s but the world’s. It is World War 3 because it is led by an Idealist Autocrat that has dreams of world domination.
Biden and his administration knew for over 6 months that Putin was going to invade and did nothing. His Dove complacency has put the American people in a very precarious position.
It is time that we the people stand up against a totally dysfunctional administration and bring our country back to it’s strength pre-Biden
Sadly, this piece is just another cheerleader opinion to try to hide Joe Biden’s real accomplishments, such as:
– Creating the worst inflation in 40 years in the first place – and blaming Putin!!
– Celebrating 6M+ new jobs when 9M jobs were lost due to Covid….and many just dropped out of the workforce for good
– Allowing 2+Million illegal immigrants walk across the border, then transporting many of them to cities across the USA (and giving them cash, a phone and a place to stay, but no COVID test)
– 400+M additional Covid deaths in 1 year, even with a vaccine and a distribution plan given to him
– Afghanistan surrender, leaving an airbase, $80B in equipment and hundreds of people behind – enough said!
– Being 2 steps behind any foreign policy moves including Ukraine (deterrent sanctions? didn’t work Joe!!) Honestly, do you want Joe Biden to lead us if Putin actually uses a tactical nuke (Heaven forbid!)?
– Ending our energy independence – then begging Iran and OPEC to send us more oil… and buying oil from Russia (private corps stopped that before he did)! Restart the fracking and drilling for now until this geopolitical issue is resolved. Oh, and the 9000 open leases story is hollow – they’re just leases for land that may or may not have oil.
– Promising Iran anything to rejoin a nuclear deal that they had been cheating on throughout – and having Russia be the broker for a new deal! you read that right.
– Overturning all of Trump’s policies whether they were good or not, just because he signed them (eg, not allowing Chinese software companies to work on our power grid).
The list goes on…it’s not a right wing media thing…we all have to look at both sides of the media, because they all have a vested interest in publishing only 1 side – sales & clicks to those with that 1 sided view and reinforcing it. What happened to actual fact based news? Maybe the ‘reporters’ & opinionators would have to work too hard.
Given the left lean to this publication, I expect I’ll be censored or cancelled shortly….and this may not even make it in…
Reading BIASED articles like this brings a smile to my face as it only shows how DISCONNECTED & CORRUPT the entire MSM is & how things are going to change BIGLY when the next election comes. This skeleton is going to go down in history as one if not THE WORST PRESIDENT of all time. It is as if we elected someone from the Chinese Communist Party that is hell bent on destroying our country from the inside out. It is truly sad to see especially the amount of ‘Americans’ that are blinded by the BIASED mainstream media.
Baaaaahahahaha!!!! What a joke!!! The desperation of the left… painting this disastrous Presidency as a complete success and blatantly ignoring what is obvious to the vast majority of Americans. Literally the worst President in the history of the country. His weak and feckless “leadership” has us on the brink of WW III. An administration drowning because they’re in so far over their heads. Carter is surely relieved! This is a wreck we’ll never come back from IF we even manage to survive the next 3 years!
There is a reason you do not name the author of this article. No one would ever own up to this nonsense.
What drugs was this person taking who wrote this article???? Biden has been nothing but worthless,weak,fragile and incompetent since he took office with his clown sidekick Kamala..They have run this country into the ground in less than 2 years with their insane decisions.How about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and that disastor that ended up killing 13 of our soldiers bacause of his stupidness?? How about the open border and letting illegal criminals and Covid stricken immigrants keep flooding into our country?? How about the lockdowns and mandates he imposed that ended up shutting down small businesses for good and causing our children to not be able to go to school in person and suffer having to now be behind on their learning curves? How about more people died from Covid under Biden than ever did with Trump? how about the insane prices of gas now at the pumps and the supplies shortages he has caused because of his lockdowns and giving free money to people so they didnt have to actually work so goods could not be delivered or handled? How about the cost of a gallon of milk now soaring to well over $4.00 a gallon and all groceries and good in stores skyrocketing to insane prices? How about him shutting down the keystone pipelines and now making us have to depend on foreign countries for gas, oil and energy after we were already energy independant and doing perfectly well with Trump.Biden inherited energy independance and now has killed that and made us have to beg our rival countries for resources.When does Biden plan to get an electric car for over $70,000 like he expects the American people to do when we cant even afford to feed our families because he has caused inflation not heard of in this country for over 40 years.This senile,weak,fragile and mentally declining ,moron has our country in danger and turmoil right now on top of everything.The entire world has NO respect for us because they see this joke leader of ours and they all are laughing.Putin is just playing him like a fiddle..and he sends Kamala overseas so she can laugh about everything with that childish cackle of hers.When she doesnt know anything or cant answer a question which is all the time..She just breaks out into that 6 year old laugh of hers..She is a worthless incompetent joke way over her head and has not done one thing for the American people.Look at her and Bidens poll numbers..thats all you have to do.So the person who wrote this rediculous article has either been living under a rock or is due to be in rehab soon because their mind is obviously delusional and drugs may be the cause..What will be their next rediculous article written here? That Bigfoot and Elvis are living together and running for office???We cant wait until 2024 to get these 2 stooges out of there if we can even get to that point before they put us into a nuclear war next..It is scary times for the American people right now with 2 incompetent clueless idiots in charge of us.Dumb and Dumber…God help us all…..
I just threw up in my own mouth. Joe biden didnt return because he was never there. Joe Biden is a demented puppet. The bizarre radical hysterical brain trust of marxist creeps that are running things have not a clue what they are doing. This NJ.com editorial reads like something out of a Soviet era state newspaper. Noone trusts or believes the ‘editorials” anymore. noone except clueless idiots and fools believes anything joe biden has to say. If it werent for the mismanagement of foreign policy during the obama term and Bush period none of this would have even happened. After the soviet union fell NATO should have been disbanded. What is the big problem with Russia? All the European nations could have developed even more peaceful invovled trading relationships with Russia. AT least Trump tried to deescalate tensions with Russia. Putin said explicitly that he would not tolerate missiles in Ukraine aimed at Russia. He would not tolerate Ukraine joining Nato.
In the last 50 years how many countries has Russia invaded? one : afganistan.
In the same period how many countries has the US invaded, staged coups in , or started wars in … Many many. IRaq, afganistan, Syria, … how many bases does the US have in foreign countries? over 800.
How many does Russia have.
Who is the greater imperial security threat to the world Russia or the US regime? clearly the US is the greater threat.
Joe Biden is a fool. A demented puppet presiding over a failing bankrupt empire.
Nothing about this article is even remotely accurate or true. Are you people really that ignorant or are you just getting paid to write nonsense and falsehoods.
It was a wise choice to leave the author’s name off of this opinion. From polling the opinions you canget a reasonable idea of the outcome of the midterms in this state.
Biden isnt a leader. He’s a demented corrupt puppet whose family have leveraged their power and influence to make millions of dollars for themselves. During 2021 MORE people died of covid than in 2020 despite the vaccine rollouts. Biden didnt “lead” during the pandemic. He bullied and insulted and denigrated and scowled and made a complete ass of himself and embarrassed the whole country and divided us even more. Its astonishing that you would have really anything positive to say about him at this point. What garbage have you been reading?
Those are some rosie-colored glasses you’re wearing, there!!!
Are you kidding me? That senile old man who can’t even formulate a coherent sentence or find his way off the stage..and what is that whispering thing he does? And the laughing idiot of a VP who is always unprepared? I don’t know if you are seriously ridiculous or ridiculously serious?
Same here..must be some really good stuff….
Amen!
I’m not sure Biden knows there is a war going on….
It is no wonder that there is no one’s name attached to this “editorial”. Did this writer just come out of a coma?
This is a satire piece right? Just to get comments so you can get email addresses right?. Go for it LOL
This is a satire piece right? Just so you can get email addresses? LOL go for it. . ..🤣🤣🤣
Well I’ll never read another North Jersey.com article again after reading this absurd out-of-touch article. Biden has you fooled just like he has every other Democrat fooled. Either that or you’re just lying to yourselves. Who’s the idiot who wrote this crap anyway? Like the one comment above .. what is it that you’re smoking?
Who in their right frame of mind wrote this article? 😂 I’ll be canceling my subscription after reading this crap. Do they hire just any idiot over there at North Jersey.com?
We never should have been seen as some “super power.”Slightly off topic, but whatever…I cringe each time I walk into a Saker-owned ShopRite store for the impending “America #1” propaganda music blaring in their vestibules. UGH!!!
Dementia Joe has got to be the worst President this country has seen. Certainly the worst in our living history. Back to my original thought…it seems obvious to me that the only reason why so many other nations put us up on some invisible pedestal was due to our use of life obliterating bombs and our almost embarrassingly laTE entrance into WWII. The fact that we enter red that war soooo late is why I feel so many people act like we “won” the war.
Our citizens aren’t better than any other nations citizens. Our government is most certainly more corrupt than most others. Your head would spin if you knew half the things that really go on in DC
What nonsense, you believed this hook, line and sinker. This Opinion is the best political fiction I have read in a long time.
You believed this hook, line and sinker. This is the best political fiction I have read in a long time.
The only question raised by this idiotic editorial is: Does the writer actually believe what he/she wrote? Or is this just another MSM attempt to prop up a completely disastrous regime?
Ignorant is no way to go through life. Take the blinders off and open your eyes. Sleepy Joe is a horror show.
JackAss
AH! Well, perhaps the World needs him the Most; BUT, American’s are hurting because of his imposing Sanctions, which have Directly impacted America’s Economy with Higher Prices on Home heating Fuels, Diesel oil, Gasoline!! Which all have an Domino affect on so many other Prices, like Food.. Yes! But; How can any leader impose such hardship’s on his own People & Country!! He hasn’t mentioned any new deliveries of 0il coming in from 0ther Countries to replenish that which he Lost with his Sanction’s.. This Policy isn’t very Patriotic & it impedes & weakens America & Hurts the People!!//
It’s been pretty obvious about this site’s political leaning but this has to be the most blindly biased piece I’ve ever read. Anyone who actually believes Biden received anywhere near 80 million legitimate votes is beyond delusional.
Hahahahahahahahaha
If this is your thinking about us,who surpasses the US?
I don’t know where to begin to disagree. Just please tell me where you get your info and whose words you are believing in.
We don’t need Russian propaganda when we can read NJ News opinion
If only people who have a brain to think can see this is not journalism
That died when the “free” press decided to censor the truth under Donald Trump
The reality is President Biden will be go down as the worst in history and we still have years to go