Joe Is Very Much Awake
Joe Biden Acceptance Speech, August 20, 2020. Democratic National Convention, Fourth Night. After thirty-two years of trying Joe Biden accepted at last his party’s nomination for president. He did so …
The Revered Constitution and the Beloved Community
And so it came to pass in a procession of speeches steeped in historical consciousness that, one hundred years and one day after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which …
Head of the Class
Speech by Jill Biden, August 18, 2020. Democratic National Convention, Second Night. As a format, the convention speech for a would-be First Lady generally confines the speechwriter and speaker to …
Obama to Bentsen to Fierce
After a long montage of video remarks, roundtables, songs, and super cuts that felt like the ton of previews and ads one sees at movie theaters, the first virtual political …
Leadership from Atlanta
Political eulogies rethicken and refasten community ties frayed by the untimely deaths of its people. We have no eulogies yet for the victims of COVID19. The socially distanced funeral for …