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The Covid Speech I Wish Joe Biden Would Give
by Richard Greene
Now that McConnell, Manchin and Sinema are blocking virtually everything our President wants — and making him look incredibly weak — I believe Joe Biden has a golden opportunity to use his Tuesday Omicron Strategy speech to the nation to show that he is strong, decisive, visionary and, indeed, Presidential.
And . . . to finally speak the language of many of those who are NOT getting vaccinated and/or boosted.
As a speechwriter for over 30 years, here’s how I would start it . . . .
“As your President I carry many responsibilities.
And there is none greater than the health and well-being of my fellow Americans.
Sadly, as many of you know, we are not done with Covid. And there is a building crisis, a real crisis, with the new, far more transmissible Sars-Cov-2 variant “Omicron”. It is the last thing we all wanted . . . and quite a horrible “Christmas present”. A viral “Scrooge”.
And my administration has a path forward to protect the country from it.
But there are other crises that hurt my country’s health, some that make the Covid crisis worse, and some that have been here — UNTREATED — a long, long time.
