JOE BIDEN'S FIRST ADDRESS TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS: OBSERVATIONS.

ICHEOKU says at least he successfully managed it right through to the end without any major gaffes or mistake or his famous stammering bouts and for this ICHEOKU gives him a passing score. He also looked much healthier as he freely mingled and interacted with some of the members of  Congress following the conclusion of the address. ICHEOKU also noted that he did not observe the required social distancing rule and had several up and close mouth to ear whispering conservations and also shook hands with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio in complete disregard of Dr Anthony Fauci's prohibitive injunction against shaking hands. 

But it was a good sign and a clear evidence that America has in fact truly turned the corner and is now on a one way uptick trajectory forward, having put the Chinese coronavirus effectively behind them. With what was seen at the Capitol, American people can now freely go about their daily lives as mask will just do, where needed; because if Joe Biden can do it so could millions of other Americans.  However Joe Biden spent a greater part of his address touting the gains in the fight against coronavirus, emphasizing his distribution and dispensation prowess, but failed to acknowledge the man, President Donald John Trump, whose drive accelerated the vaccines developments. 

It is also worth taking note of that Joe Biden continues to pile up tasks on Kamala Harris's desk without first asking how the previous ones were executed, if they were at all. He added the supervision of his new infrastructural redevelopment of America to Kamala Harris already bludgeoning tasks, despite the fact that she has not even visited the Southern border illegal immigration ground zero pursuant to her previous assigned task as the new Immigration Tsar or rather Tsarina of the Biden/Harris administration. ICHEOKU says what then is left for Joe Biden to do when everything is being shifted and assigned to Kamala Harris. May be theirs is a division of labor where Joe Biden is merely the face of the administration while Kamala Harris is the task master or the worker bee.

Joe Biden wants American dollars to be used to buy American products made in America by American workers to help create American jobs. He also wants an increase in minimum wage, right of workers to unionize although he kept mum when Amazon workers fought to unionize in Alabama. He also wants equal pay for women, mentioned violence against women but did not  acknowledge that men themselves are often victims of women inflicted violence. He enumerated a lot of other goodies but did not assertively say whether his planned tax increases will be enough to offset the largesse he wants to hand out. 

He was silent on the rising cost of gasoline and other fuels; he did not mention the resumed Iranian Republican Guards harassment of US Navy in the Persian Gulf.  Although he mentioned Russia and China as places where repression of the people is rising, he failed to also mention what is currently unfolding in Nigeria under Muhammadu Buhari where insecurity is now the order of the day with many nationalities threatening to secede and where a sitting minister is a jihadist terrorists sympathizer.

Senator Ted Cruz was noticeably dozing on and off throughout the speech, begging the question whether it was that too boring that the Texas hard charging MAGAnite couldn't stand it. Notably missing at the event was the effant terrible Congresswoman from New York Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, whose junior status made it impossible to accommodate in the sparse coronavirus sensitive Congressional audience. But with the way they interacted and mingled so closely with one another after the address, casts doubt to whatever reason that made them not to allow a full participation of members of Congress. 

Kamala Harris fashion statement did not go down well; it was quite off. Her golden ensemble was somewhat tacky and the sleeves were too long. But Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi nailed her own ensemble down as the great fashionista of note she is. Everything about her fashion statement was stellar. Love it. It is also to be noted that it was the first time in history that two women sat on the podium and good enough too, Nancy Pelosi did not rip apart her House copy of the speech. 

So whether Joe Biden has indeed restarted the engines of America and engaged its gear to put it on the move again will be determined within the next few months once the country is fully and completely opened up. But so far, he has been holding his own since the last one hundred days the Deep State installed him in the White House. He has not gotten worser than he was and every other thing should be counted as a welcome improvement. But his claim that "we are now on Mars discovering vaccines" will surely get him a pinocchio point. Overall, he performed above expectations and aced it since the benchmark for rating him is so low that it will take a completely flattened performance to ever judge his effort a failure. But so far so good, at least he has not mumbled or jumbled anything beyond expectation. It was a good performance and his demeanor was calm, balmy and soothing. Nice job Joey.