Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.

BIDEN’S “UNITY” SPEECH turned out to be a political attack on President Trump, a speech to unify his base as the presumptive presidential candidate, where there is concern with his fitness, mentally and physically.

Appearing at a Philadelphia church on Tuesday, Joe Biden opened with the words of George Floyd, “I can’t breathe,” repeating the words as he often does in his speeches for emphasis.

Just minutes into his speech, however, Biden exclaimed, “The country is crying out for leadership.  Leadership that can unite us.  Leadership that can bring us together.  Leadership that can recognize the pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for too long.”

“A president of the United States must be part of the solution, not the problem, but our president today is part of the problem,” Biden charged, as he continued his attack with ridiculous statements:

“He doesn’t care how many millions of Americans will be hurt.”

“Donald Trump has turned our country into a battlefield driven by old resentments and fears.”

These remarks, from Biden, the man who says it isn’t time for “fear and finger-pointing.”

I found it interesting that he said that he “will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued this country.”

“Joe’s speech was a model for bringing the nation together.” – Sen. Chris Coons, (D-DL)

Biden, who served eight years under the first U.S. black president, with the services of two black attorneys general – Holder and Lynch – said, “I’ve long believed we needed real community policing,” yet there is no evidence that he, or President Obama, seriously addressed that issue. Biden had eight years to recommend to his boss, the creation of a national police oversight commission, he has now pledged to do in his first 100 days as president.

Typically, Biden’s speech was replete with cliché’s and the obligatory names of blacks who played a role in lifting the nation’s move to recognize civil rights.

The Biden campaign followed his “unity” appearance with a blatant call for donations.  It didn’t go unnoted that he said in his speech, “This country wasn’t built by Wall Street bankers and CEOs,” yet last year he told wealthy supporters he was running for president and asked for their help in lining up top donors, as reported in the Daily Mail by Emily Goodwin.

WITH THAT, we are now expected to believe that Joe Biden leads President Trump in five battleground states that narrowly carried in 2016 – Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  Biden’s Philadelphia speech aside, I find it hard to believe that voters in those states are oblivious of Biden’s political failures and his inability to make a cohesive comment without a teleprompter.

FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH in a rare statement, wrote of his and the former first lady’s anguish over the death of George Floyd, and said “we have resisted the urge to speak out, because this is not the time for us to lecture.  It is time for us to listen … to examine our tragic failures.” He asked, “how do we end systemic racism in our society?”

“We know that lasting justice will only come by peaceful means.  Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress,” he added.

VOTERS IN NEW MEXICO unanimously turned away the attempt by the former CIA operative, Valerie Plame, to replace outgoing Democrat Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, who is running for senate.  Teresa Leger Fernandez won the race with a 42.6 percent vote, nearly doubling Plame’s 23.1 percent.

A Washington Post puff piece fell flat on New Mexico’s voters. Under the headline, “The spy who came into her own,” Jada Yuan wrote, “Plame was hard to miss with her blond hair, blue jeans and a pristine white short-sleeve shirt.  She looks astoundingly good, at 56, as if the high-altitude desert air has preserved her skin since the day she arrived here 12 years ago.

Plame, you may recall, falsely accused Scooter Libby of blowing her cover.  Libby was pardoned by President Trump in 2018.

GOOD NEWS FROM IOWA – Voters there have had enough of Rep. Steve King, who has continually embarrassed the Republican Party with his offensive racist remarks, and gave the primary victory to State Sen. Randy Feenstra.

PONDER THIS – While watching the chaos in our country, supposedly in response to the terrible death of George Floyd, the killing of a number of black law enforcement individuals go practically unreported.

Most recently, David Dorn, 77, the retired member of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department of 38 years, was killed in front of a pawn and jewelry shop, where he was responding to a burglary alarm.

Earlier, Patrick Underwood, a 53-year-old officer with the Homeland Security Federal Protective Services, was killed by a drive-by shooter in front of the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California.

It’s kind of like Biden’s comment to the Breakfast Club host, ”if you’re for Trump, you ain’t black.”  It’s selective persecution.  The killing of black officers is different.

Heather MacDonald, author of “The War On Cops,” on Wednesday said that white police officers are 18.5 times more likely to be killed than an unarmed black male.

AND DID YOU HEAR what New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones said about the rioting in American cities during an interview by Vladimir Duthiers on CBS News?

“Violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man’s neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.  Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”

If that statement wasn’t disgusting enough, you should know that Duthiers offered no pushback and even applauded her deranged analysis, saying “It’s a great point that you make, Nikole,” reports Tristan Justice of The Federalist.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.