{"id":18191,"date":"2021-01-21T01:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=53993"},"modified":"2021-01-21T01:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:28:56","slug":"joe-biden-sends-a-clear-message-to-watching-world-americas-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/joe-biden-sends-a-clear-message-to-watching-world-americas-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world \u2013 America\u2019s back"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANALYSIS: <\/strong>By Scott Lucas<\/a>, University of Birmingham<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Politics doesn\u2019t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two weeks after the storming of the US Capitol<\/a> by the followers of his predecessor, in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans, Joe Biden \u2014 the 46th president of the US \u2014 tried to contain the blaze in his inaugural address<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As aspiration, the speech was pitch perfect. Biden rightly took on the present of America\u2019s most serious domestic crisis since the Civil War. Coronavirus, the Capitol attack, economic loss, immigration, climate change and social injustice were confronted:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    But what distinguished the speech beyond the essential was the sincerity with which it was delivered. Since the election, there has been a commingling of Biden\u2019s personal narrative of loss<\/a> with the damage that America has suffered.<\/p>\n

    When he spoke of the \u201cempty chair\u201d and relatives who have died, it was from the heart and not just the script.<\/p>\n