Posted on 10/12/2012 2:00:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“... couldn’t take Biden’s antics anymore ... ‘intimidation by laughter’...”
This was exactly my experience as well although I didn’t even last 45 minutes. That laughter/smirk was intended to intimidate and discredit Ryan - it was hostile, thoroughly condescending, and Biden was using it to try to bully Ryan. It was an attempt by the dems to use the same tactic of ridicule that they used against Palin - it did not work - of course and backfired! Thank God!! It was a sadistic smile and we as the audience were supposed to follow the bully’s lead and psychologically join in the “attack” and contempt. It was Biden’s Lord of the Flies moment.
Again - it did NOT work and he appeared to be smirking and laughing at the issues instead.
Debates are partly about substance. But the problem is biteme came off as such a jerk that people were tuning out what he had to say. I turned it off after about 30 min.
Could we have been watching a VP that was simply was “cracking up” under the weight of the “pressures” of being VP?
I am simply is surprised that we did not see a nice group of folks bringing the VP a nice clean white jacket to put on VP Biden last night.
The only “real” adult sitting at the table was Rep. Ryan. Rep. Ryan WON.
Can someone do a poster of “Biden Gone Wild” using the Girls Gone Wild approach?
I had watched online my United States of America “die” before my very eyes and the VP Joe Biden thinks its “funny?”
You lasted 5 more minutes than I did.
Who even laughs that much during a serious discussion in front of millions? And he is really laughing; it is not a feigned smile by any means....I think people are tired of the two buffoons “running” the country; even Obama thinks he is an f****** comedian with his JesseJacksonesque-like one-liners and quips.
And just what every hard working or job hunting American wants to see after another day of trying to make ends meet, pay their bills and survive....a haughty, pretentious, insolent windbag who’s pearly whites were bought and paid for using his tax payer funded dental plan- and whose sheer arrogance and contempt was stunningly on display to anyone with half a brain—
It is just remarkable and beyond disgusting that this man and the rest of the crew have been allowed to “represent” us-they need to administer an IQ test and psych testing before you’re allowed to run for office...
Rant over- :)
Suzy
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Well stated!!
This morning I stopped by the Au Bon Pain in Union Station (DC) for my breakfast and the lady working there (one of Holder’s people) was asking everyone about the debate. “Did you see our Vice President put that little boy in his place?”
biden is an ass clown... no one called him VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN... they are all referring to the clown... good old joe... even those that are firmly worshiping these two ass clowns.
LLS
What? She didn’t call Paul Ryan a “bow-tied white boy?”
LLS
LLS
“Brit Hume made that comparison 2 minutes after the debate ended”
Glad to hear it. Now, they should keep repeating it and the GOP should start the, “I’m Not Laughing, Joe” campaign.
And who the hell did Tucker Carlson’s group of ‘undecided’ voters think they were kidding???? They were pro-Obama by about 3 to 1. I’m thinking these people say they are undecided so they can get on tv.
Saw that smile in the first 60 seconds or so and knew he was doomed.
Actually fell asleep midway, but saw the end. Had a (married) daughter text from where she was attending a church function, and I’m looking now at what I text:
Here comes the talking heads.
(Biden smiled and laffed too much that’s my view. (Meaning mine)
Then daughter text: Tech stuff - who scored best? I didn’t quite answer that as I was all ready to text this: Biden may have helped obama altho his smirky, mugging, rude demeanor may not have helped. Very unlikeable in this venue even tho people like him in private.
There was no further texting from her. Probably ending their meeting in prayer - - - !
You’re right. Joe strikes me as a guy who is putting on an act.
He wants to come off as a cool and smart guy... in that order.
The trouble is, Joe is just a not-too-bright guy who looks plum dumb when he’s trying to pass himself off as ‘smart’. When he sees it isn’t convincing anyone, he gets mean and surly....
He’s just your typical Liberal with a whole lot of ego and no real interest in logic or demonstrated facts.
Never mind that he has an innate lack of respect for anyone with opinions which are more sophisticated than his own....also your basic Liberal behavior.
Biden’s basically the ‘Ted Knight’ of American politics... just as shallow, vain and out of touch as the silly peacock in the Mary Tyler Moore show. His dismissive and smart-alek approach to engaging an opponent and to deciding a course for the strongest, wealthiest, free-est nation in the known universe is very immature and out of place in the debates.
Shame on him.
Ryan is tons more and better informed, so he had to step down to even discuss issues with Joe... sort of like trying to kill an ant with a bowling ball.
It was a waste of HIS time and OURS
Maybe someone should have told old Joe that he should be on his best behavior and that the issues that they have let slide were ‘a big F’in deal’. It makes me sad that the current administration can laugh at how screwed up they have made things in the last 4 years. The interruptions were rude and uncalled for. Ryan acted as politely as he could given the circumstances.
Excellent idea!
LLS
Well, I never was able to get on FR at all till I woke up this morning. All in all, not the best of nights for me....and I'm being diplomatic.
Leni
Little boy???
I would have told her that the toilet was overflowing, would she please go take care of it.
After I got my food, of course.
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