Posted on 10/12/2012 2:00:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As I observed the words and demeanor of Vice President Joe Biden all throughout last night’s debate a line from Hamlet kept running through my mind.
“That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain,” William Shakespeare wrote. How better to sum up the most unctuous, disingenuous vice president in this writer’s lifetime?
The radical left-wing Delawarean showed the same loathsome traits that he displayed during his debate with Sarah Palin four years ago. But this time, because he wasn’t facing a woman he wasn’t walking on eggshells, terrified of offending female voters. This allowed his worst characteristics to rise to the surface, unburdened by natural inhibitions.
While his opponent, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) was relatively relaxed, Biden was everyone’s obnoxious, overbearing, opinionated relative who makes up for the weakness of his arguments by making them loudly. As conservative comedian Brian Sack tweeted, the debate was “Too Chill Boy vs. Obnoxious Grandaddy.”
Throughout the debate Biden made no attempt to conceal his contempt for Ryan. It is hard to say if Biden showed greater disdain for his adversary than President Obama showed for Mitt Romney in the Colorado conversation last week.
Some observers, buoyed by impossibly high expectations, were destined to be disappointed unless Ryan landed a devastating knockout. Ryan did well but such a punch never came. A knockout always seemed unlikely because Biden is so well known for exaggerating, telling tall tales, and saying downright absurd things.
“The vice president knows sometimes the words don’t come out of your mouth the right way,” Ryan said.
Even though Ryan clearly seemed to be feeling the pressure, he wasn’t cowed by Biden. He taunted the vice president, noting that Biden is “under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground” after Romney pulverized Obama during the debate last week.
Ryan lamented that “hope and change” had been replaced by “attack, blame, and defame.”
“President Obama had his chance,” Ryan said. “He made his choices.”
Ryan rejected the fundamental transformation of America sought by Obama. “We will not try to replace our founding principles,” Ryan said. “We will reapply our founding principles.” Although much younger than Biden, Ryan was the only adult sitting at the table.
One thing is for sure: both Obama and Biden are hardcore haters whose self-esteem exceeds their actual abilities.
Last night the senescent Biden resented being taken on by the sometimes brash, young, handsome, genuinely brilliant lawmaker from Wisconsin.
Never before was so much pricey dental porcelain displayed on live television as the unstatesmanlike Biden, chuckled, mocked, and guffawed his way through the 90-minute encounter. His constant, obnoxious interruptions were tolerated by the moderator, left-wing journalist Martha Raddatz, who frequently challenged Ryan, demanding specifics from the challenger. Raddatz asked little of Biden.
Barely a word of truth escaped the vice president’s lips.
Biden threw the intelligence community under the bus in order to support the Obama administration’s ongoing coverup of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. From the start the administration portrayed the assault as a spontaneous uprising sparked by anger over an anti-Islam video. For two weeks officials tried to pretend that terrorists weren’t involved.
In the debate Biden said intelligence agencies failed to do their jobs and fed the White House bad information.
The administration didn’t initially know the attack was instigated by terrorists and hadn’t received requests from officials for additional security, Biden said, lying on both counts. Evidence now establishes that the administration learned about the attack before it happened. There is also proof that the late Ambassador Chris Stevens, believing he was marked for death by terrorists, pleaded with the administration to provide additional security. Each day brings new revelations of administration malfeasance in the sorry affair.
Biden dramatically swore to find the killers. “We will track you to the gates of Hell,” he vowed.
Ryan countered that what happened in Benghazi was proof of the “unravelling” of Obama’s foreign policy of weakness and appeasement. Obama has refused to admit that the Islamic world hasn’t abandoned its hostility to the U.S. That would conflict with his messianic narrative in which diverse peoples across the planet are united and inspired by the president.
Romney’s controversial criticism of the Obama administration’s condemnation of an anti-Muslim video nobody saw and that apparently played no role in the Benghazi attack was admirable, Ryan explained.
“It’s never too early to speak up for our values,” Ryan said,
The best Biden could do was to note that left-wing journalists agreed that Romney should have kept his mouth shut. Romney’s criticism of Obama’s apology for the video was “panned by the media all around the world.”
Biden said that Syria was five times larger than Libya. As Newt Gingrich tweeted, Biden was “absurdly” and “totally” wrong. Libya, a huge North African country, is 679,362 square miles compared to Syria which is merely 71,500 square miles in size.
Biden condemned super PACs as “abominations” even though the Obama-Biden team uses them enthusiastically. Priorities USA Action super PAC unleashed the Joe Soptic ad, probably the most dishonest –and certainly the most vicious – presidential campaign ad since Lyndon Johnson’s apocalyptic “Daisy” ad in 1964 painted Barry Goldwater as a budding Dr. Strangelove.
The ad features Soptic explaining directly to the camera how his wife died after Bain Capital, the firm Romney once ran, bought the steel company he worked for and dissolved it. Soptic blames Romney for the loss of his health insurance and subsequent death of his wife.
The Soptic ad was funded by the super PAC’s donors. Among those donors are the alleged comedian Bill Maher and the Service Employees International Union.
Biden invoked class warfare too many times to count and blamed Republicans for the nation’s ballooning debt levels. He said Democrats had saved Medicare by cutting $700-odd billion from the program, a lie Ryan nailed him on. Democrats “got caught with their hands in the cookie jar,” taking the $700 billion and using it to fund Obamacare, Ryan said. If the cuts aren’t reversed Medicare patients will have a much harder time getting seen by doctors.
It wasn’t so much a debate as an argument between a mature person and a toddler.
Clint Eastwood seems to understand what a nonentity Biden is.
During his surprise appearance at the Republican convention in Florida, Eastwood seemed to share my frame of mind about the Cheshire Cat temporarily residing in the U.S. Naval Observatory.
In his extemporaneous riff before an empty chair representing the empty suit that is Barack Obama, Eastwood said, “You’re getting as bad as Biden. Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Just kind of a grin with a body behind it.”
The more Joe Biden smiles, the more voters realize he’s not the man the media built him up to be.
I made it through all but the last 10 minutes. I could not stand Biden. He stunk up the stage.
Joe Biden’s constant interruptions of Ryan caused me (and thousands of others, I’m sure) to shout “Shut the f#@% up, Biden” at least once during the debate. I mean, his chuckling and giggling was bad enough, but the fact that he could interrupt Ryan at will, without any response from the liberal moderator, got under my skin quickly.
There’s a reason I’m not in politics - I would have jumped up from my chair and punched Joe’s lights out after about the third interruption just on general principal. Apparently, fisticuffs isn’t considered an acceptable means of disciplining an unruly opponent in a debate.
They did not build him. Satan did.
I LOL'd at this statement, becasue I must have said this five times last night.
My BP has been very good lately, but I could feel it spike every time the Delaware Dumbass opened his fat mouth.
A heartbeat away. Just wow.
At the end of the debate, when he spent five seconds whining that Paul Ryan got forty seconds and he was getting ten, I cracked up. He is the Ted Baxter of the dem party. Embrace him, you losers.
And shame on the moderator for allowing Baxter to rudely interrupt so many times- and shame on Baxter to ignore Paul Ryan’s asking for him to let him finish.
We started on the radio, and I am a numbers geek, so I was really enjoying Ryan’s discussion on how to save Medicare/Medicaid, and noticed that when he started to hit the points, Biden would lose it.
Which resulted in my son screaming at Biden through the radio. All hope was lost then. He wanted Ryan to bitch-slap him; young men, sigh.
Watched the Fox focus group. One thing did come out, the women did like Ryan. One woman called him debonaire. All found him prepared on the topics, knew his stuff. But, terribly biased focus group, if they were for O/B to begin with, they started talking about how weak Ryan was. (made me think they were plants.)
Biden brags that he was raised in a blue collar environment but, obviously, his parents did him a dis-service when it comes to teaching etiquette. People I know living in that environment would give a kid the back of their hand if a kid behaved so rudely in a conversation with another person.
Our home was technically at poverty level, and I’d have been sent into the middle of next week if I’d interrupted another person or rolled my eyes even once. Eighty-plus times, Joe? C’mon! Go back to your rubber room.
Biden=TED KNIGHT!!!
I didn’t watch ANY of it, other than what I couldn’t miss during 11PM news - and FF most of it.
BUT
From what I am reading and hearing, one must wonder how joebama would have come across had he NOT taken a week off to prepare????
From the day he was named VP, I began saying he (joebama) was BO’s ‘insurance policy’ as no one is or would be dumb enough to harm a hair on BO’s chinny-chin-chin as long as one knew joebama was a heartbeat away from the pResidency.
I have also maintained all along that BO is actually Michelle and vice versa, as they figured some one as big and intimidating as Michelle(BO) would freak people out.
For people who didn't watch it, it gives the impression the disrespect was both ways.
I probably should apologize to the memory of ‘Ted Knight’ because at least ‘Ted Knight’ had some humanity and in the end, was likeable.
No....the Ted Knight analogy is PERFECT! Obama is Eddie Haskell, with that cheese eating grin.
That comment made me wonder if Biden ALSO skipped his intelligence briefings.
Just the top two issues of many I have with the behaviors of last night.
1. It is frightening how the measure of mental or spiritual maturity too often has no correlation to chronological age.
2. On the opinion of abortion, if once outside the doors of your church you espouse an opposing set of values to when inside, who then is the real soul I am seeing.
“I’d have been sent into the middle of next week.’
Were you raised in the ‘50’s?!
That’s what I remember my mom saying, with variations - - !
Yes, I moved over to my computer and tried to log on to FR and couldn't get in. So, I had to go back to full attention on the TV and continued to watch the debacle. I really wanted to punch Biden in the mouth.
I can’t help myself, but “O” always reminds me of Erkel
No....Erkel was LOVABLE....Eddie Haskell wasnt.
-——“Too Chill Boy vs. Obnoxious Grandaddy.”-——
As a grandaddy, I wondered throughout the debacle if Biden was astounded that his opponent was three or so when he first took office, if his many hard won battles were for naught if he lost to a neophyte kid, if he was relevant or a relic?
Biden displayed the characteristics of a criminal. His capacity to lie, lie, lie is blatantly criminal.
“Were you raised in the ‘50’s?!”
Yup. In the ‘50s, in a parsonage.
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