Biden warns Americans of threats he did little to mitigate in farewell speech ...Middle East

WASHINGTON DC — His 82 years clearly wearing upon him, President Joe Biden bade the American people an official farewell on Wednesday night.

Making the final primetime TV address of his Presidency, Biden struggled through an 18-minute speech that sought to cap a career in Washington that began in 1972 when he was elected to the Senate from the state of Delaware.

At the time, he was too young to take the oath of office and had to wait until his 30th birthday had passed. On Wednesday night, he prepared to depart the stage after his own party judged him too old to remain in the Presidency.

Biden offered a vision of his administration that was heavily coloured by rose-tinted glasses. He told Americans that throughout his time in office “our democracy has held strong, and every day I have kept my commitment to be a President for all Americans, through one of the toughest periods in our nation’s history”.

He spoke of his successful efforts to rebuild the nation’s economy following the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He claimed to “have launched a new era of American possibilities…new roads, bridges, clean water, and affordable high speed internet for every American”.

But in a concession to the fact that millions of voters were seemingly not feeling the fruits of economic success, he acknowledged “it will take time to feel the full impact of all we’ve done together, but the seeds are planted”.

Internationally, he claimed the Nato alliance is now stronger than it was when he entered office.

“Ukraine is still free, and we’ve pulled ahead in our competition with China”, Biden argued, saying: “I’m so proud of how much we’ve accomplished together for the American people, and I wish the incoming administration success, because I want America to succeed”.

But then came the caveats, and a dark warning to Americans of the dangers that Biden says they now face from “an oligarchy…taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence, that literally threatens our basic rights and freedoms”.

Having done nothing during his time in office to regulate the country’s social media and tech billionaires, he insisted that their regulation is, in fact, long overdue.

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation”, the President warned. “The free press is crumbling…social media is giving up on fact checking. Truth is smothered by lies”. A casual viewer may surely have wished that someone in power had done something to confront the crisis.

And, Biden claimed, there is worse to come. Having taken only limited steps to control the development of Artificial Intelligence while in office, he warned Americans of its inherent dangers as he prepared to pack his bags and head off into retirement. 

“Unless safeguards are in place”, Biden warned that AI “could spawn new threats to our rights, our way of life, to our privacy, how we work and how we protect our nation. We must make sure AI is safe and trustworthy and good for all humankind”.

Declaring that his time in the White House had been the “honour of my lifetime”, the President thanked his staff, his family and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, who – like her husband – continues to embrace the delusion that he would have beaten Donald Trump in November’s election had he been permitted to remain the Democratic Party’s nominee.

As he heads into his final weekend in office, Biden is determined to oversee the peaceful transition of power, a tradition that he insists lies at the heart of American democracy.

But Washington can be a harsh place. On Wednesday, after addressing reporters in the White House to hail the ceasefire agreement struck in the Middle East, one correspondent asked “who gets credit for this…you or Trump?” Biden, already heading to the exit of Cross Hall in the White House, turned quizzically and asked, “is that a joke?” Assured by the reporter that it wasn’t, he stalked out of the room, the march of the news cycle already sweeping him away.

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