Commentary Before he gave it, President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address was widely expected to be a “re-boot” or a “reset” of his floundering presidency—an acknowledgment of past mistakes while setting at least something of a new course for the future in order to avoid making any more of them. Last month, David Axelrod, identified as “chief strategist” of the Obama-Biden campaigns of 2008 and 2012, looked forward to the speech by writing in The New York Times, “Mr. President, It’s Time for a Little Humility.” John Kenneth White wrote for The Hill in the same vein that “Americans are not in the mood for Donald Trump-like cheerleading but rather for Harry Truman’s plain speaking. Biden must reassure anxious Americans that he understands their plight and has proposals that make a real difference.” Turns out that the president doesn’t really do humility. Or plain speaking. Nor was what …