[FreedBird]

Too much preparation or too much alcohol and medications.

[dragonblustar]

Biden acted like a typical liberal thug, the kind you don’t often see on t.v. but the kind you see at any union rally.

[outofsalt]

Given his issues with plagairism I was tickled by his, “So now you’re Jack Kennedy?” jab.

[cuban leaf]

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs, and there is no rest.

[TigerClaws]

Intelligence community completely dropped the ball protecting the Abmbassador.

But we’ll know exactly when they are about to get a nuclear bomb.

???

Doesnt add up, Joe!

[freedommom]

I was equally concerned when Ryan said that the AlQuiada fighters in Syria and Libya were FREEDOM FIGHTERS. ..... that is obamas policy to overtake governments with aq ........

[SMARTY]

He behaved and sounded just exactly the same as every Liberal I have ever discussed politics with in my life.

Somehow they think that if they can they shout you down and interrupt you... that makes them RIGHT!!

Really!?

[The_Reader_David]

That was the most disturbing part of the VP debate to me, too, though as much because Ryan didn’t call Biden on the nonsense of “they don’t have a weapon to put it in” and “we’d know if they had a weapon”. Really? We really know they don’t already have a bomb casing with an artillery tube down the middle designed to drive one almost-critical mass of enriched uranium into another on the model of Little Boy? Really? Iran is a big place and a uranium gun-bomb, unlike a plutonium bomb, is a really simple device. So simple that the original test of the design was carried out over Hiroshima, rather than in the New Mexico or Nevada desert.

The Iranians are plainly planning on making a uranium bomb, not a plutonium bomb, and knowing their ideology, the test is likely to be carried out over Tel Aviv or in a container ship in the Port of Los Angeles or the East River.

[fatnotlazy]

When Biden danced around the first question, talking about everything else, but not really answering, I concluded this debate was a waste of time and turned it off.

[MayflowerMadam]

What disturbed me was him blaming the Intelligence community for the two weeks of lies about the situation in our embassy. Sheesh. I doubt if the CIA, etc., is very happy about being the scapegoat.

I wonder if they could provide info to Romney with facts and stats to embarrass Obama and perhaps bring him down. Paybacks are a bitch.

[CityCenter]

His dental work.

[Fresh Wind]

I totally agree. Biden wants us to not worry about the Iranian uranium enrichment program because, he claims, they won’t have a “weapon” in which to put that uranium.

The Iranians might be crazy, but they’re not stupid.

Only an idiot would believe they aren’t simultaneously working on a weapon for their uranium, and a delivery system to put that weapon in downtown Tel Aviv.

[Proud2BeRight]

Watch the condescension, rudeness, and idiot behavior of that idiot and then there is no question why there is no “bipartisanship” when the Rats are in power. There is no way to put it other than they are aholes.

[hcmama]

The hair plugs, the maniacal grinning, the inappropriate laughter, the wild gesticulating, the overdone brow lift, the fact that he had stolen Erik Estada’s teeth.....need I go on?

[Vinylly]

I listen to Mike Medvid on his radio show. Mike warned us that Biden would be O’bummer’s Pit Bull. He really understated his warning. Biden was a raving maniac, insulting well over half the intelligence of the American people. This behavior can do nothing but hurt the d’RAT party.

[hoagy62]

I have a conservative friend commenting on Facebook this morning. He’s been posting a lot of articles critical of Biden’s performance last night. Along with every article, he posts this comment...

“When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest...”
~ Proverbs 29:9

Kinda says it all, no?

[Sgt_Schultze]

With that oversized, over-white set of screw-in choppers, Biden looked like Jim Carrey in The Mask.

[kidd]

However, for me, the part of the debate that was truly appalling -- even for Biden and his clown act -- was his dismissal of the concern of a nuclear Iran.

I agree completely. How can he respond to the Bengazi question, blaming the attack on the video, because of bad Intelligence...and then half an hour later state, with confidence, that our Intelligence is trustworthy enough that he can state that Iran is not even close to having a nuke weapon????

Is American Intelligence trustworthy, or not?

Paul Ryan missed a major point here.

[Bratch]

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Libya Cover-Up: The Vice President Dives In

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 8:57 AM

The two substantive foreign policy take-aways from last night's Biden debacle were the Vice President's insistence that we need not worry about Iran because Iran lacks a delivery vehicle for the nukes it is soon to posses, and the Vice President's insistence that the Administration was not warned about the situation in Libya.

Josh Rogin, writing at Foreign Policy's blog The Cable, provides the complete rebuke to the Veep's absurd attempt to turn the page from the disaster in Libya and the president's misleading responses here. The Vice President was quite obviously and intentionally deceiving or wholly and almost unbelievably unaware of the events of the past three days. As Jennifer Rubin pointed out this morning, even Andrea Mitchell had to call out Biden on this whopper.

Had the Vice President not beclowned himself so thoroughly, this would be the lead story, but his wild display of gestures and expressions will dominate the news cycle for a day and then the scrutiny will resume over Libya and it won't be pretty.

Neither will be the focus on the Veep's absurd ramblings on Iran and the mullah's lack of a delivery vehicle for their enriched uranium. Downplaying the immediate and growing threat from Iran will not help assure the key cosntiutuency of supporters of Israel that the president and his key advisors are serious about the threat.

Off to Phoenix to help Vernon Parker, Jonathan Paton and Congressman Paul Gosar in their campaigns to keep the GOP in the majoirty oin the House, but the final word on the debate last night has to come from James Hohmann's headline in today's Politico:

"Was Biden a buffoon?"

Never a good way for a debate to be framed. 

UPDATE: See also the WaPo's Alexandra Petri's very accurate take on how the Veep came across.  Dems will keep up a brave face, but the polls will continue their slide as America sighs over the four years invested in the man who wasn't there and the court jester who cheered him on.

Don't miss the RNC's YouTube compilation of Joe's greatest grins and grimaces. Hundreds of thousands of views, and growing.

[libstripper]

The thing that most disturbed me about Biden was his obvious ignorance about building nuclear weapons when he said there is still a long way to go after a country acquires enough fissile material (U-235 in Iran's case) to build one. U-235, although much harder to acquire than plutonium, is much easier to make into a bomb. The Hiroshima bomb was a U-235 bomb. That meant it was basically made like a gun with an explosive charge at one end of a tube fining a U-235 projectile into a U-235 target at the other, thereby causing the two pieces of U-235 to go critical and detonate. The gun bomb technology was so well understood in 1945 that we didn't even have to test it. An implosion bomb that used plutonium was what we had to test. Since the Iranians are using U-235, they're probably planning to build gun bombs, meaning they'll be able to do it quite easily once they have enough highly enriched U-235, something dear 'Ol Joe didn't even bother to mention.