Commentary

In 2001, “If you see something, say something” became a national campaign, launched to raise public awareness of the indicators of terrorism, as well as other suspicious activity, and reporting it to law enforcement.

While listening to President Biden, it occurred to me what he wasn’t saying, so I am devoting this post to things said and not said, seen and not seen. I took notice of what was said and not said in President Biden’s three recent speeches, but I venture to say most Americans didn’t notice. Who listens to him anymore?

In Biden’s Naval Academy Speech

His speech at the 2022 graduation and commissioning ceremony at the United States Naval Academy, brimmed with the usual platitudes and advice for the graduates – “the Academy has trained you to be leaders” … “you chose life of service and purpose” …  and “the most important lesson of leadership, to always, always care for your people.”

However, when he told them, “You’ll learn to crew the most advanced ships in the world,” those studied graduates know that the outlook is bleak, as we are retiring 24 ships and purchasing just nine in the 2023 budget, while China is ramping up its fleet. 

In Biden’s Memorial Day Speech

In his appearance at Arlington National Cemetery in observance of Memorial Day, President Biden, again spoke of “sacrifice,” … “service to our country” … “duty” … and “honor.”

Although he spent several minutes talking about the death of his son, Maj. Beau Biden, the loss of the 13 service members lost in the Afghanistan withdrawal were not; they were merely an asterisk in his line, “7,054 American military members gave their lives over 20 years our Iraq and Afghan conflicts.”

I wondered what he was thinking when he spoke of the truly sacred obligation we have “to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm’s way, and care for them and their families when they return hope and when you don’t.”

In Biden’s Delaware Commencement Address

In his commencement address to the 2022 graduates at the University of Delaware, President Biden referred to two police officers being killed in the January 6, breach of the Capitol, in a “what if” tale in which he substituted Great Britain’s Parliament for our nation’s Capitol.

It was a lie.  No police officers were killed on January 6. Two police officers did later kill themselves, and another died of natural causes.  The only death on January 6, occurred with the shooting of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt by a Capitol police officer.

                                       The Sussman Trial in Retrospect

I guess it could be said that the jury in Durham’s case against Michael Sussman was, in fact, a jury of his peers.  The trial was held in the leftist D.C. District and several jurists had Democrat ties, to the Clinton campaign, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, and even Sussman himself.

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal notes that “Mr. Durham isn’t finished,” and that he will bring a separate case that will review details on the Christopher Steele dossier, and the role of the Clinton campaign.

Seemingly, the Journal’s Holman W. Jenkins Jr. sees that it isn’t over for Hillary, who he once noted that she kept her fingerprints off the dossier. But the Sussman trial revealed she directly approved feeding the press a leak about a supposed meeting between Alpha Bank and the Trump campaign.

Two online headlines say it all

“The stench from the Sussman verdict,” in The Spectator, and “Hillary Clinton is Dirty to Her Core,” in Red State.

Truth from the Washington Post

As I recalled the times I wrote how President Trump successfully endured four-years of innuendos, I never thought that we would read in a Post editorial, “The Russia-Trump narrative that Mrs. Clinton sanctioned did enormous harm to the country?”

“By any realistic estimate, this innuendo cost Mr. Trump millions of votes,” the editorial noted, reporting of the airwaves saturated with the Russia hoax.

                       The Biden Meeting with Fed Chairman Powell

In addition to what was said and not said, there was a seen, and not seen.

The president’s meeting with Jerome Powell was unusual because it was held in the Oval Office, where there are no teleprompters.  But fear not for the Prez, with the press present, he clearly read a simple statement from a printed card on his lap, stating, “I’m not going to interfere with their critically important work.  They have a laser focus on addressing inflation, just like I am.”

If he was not going to interfere with the Fed, then why did Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, later decline to provide details of the meeting?

A Rare Admission

If Fox News didn’t show a clip of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s appearance on CNN, most Americans would not have heard her admit, “I think I was wrong about the path that inflation would take,” when she indicated last year that inflation posed only a “small risk.”
                                              After the Georgia Primary

With the Wednesday morning “quarterbacking” about winners and losers in the Georgia primaries, long-time political analyst, Michael Barone, now with the Washington Examiner, concluded: “It’s a Trumpish party, but not exactly Trump’s party.”

While Brian Kemp easily defeated David Perdue, Trump’s pick for governor of Georgia, the former president’s endorsement for Senate candidate Hershel Walker was a winner.

My June Fool’s Day Selection

The hands down winner is again President Biden.  The defense rests.

There are just 160 days until the midterm elections.  May God continue to bless the United States of America.