Further proof that Biden appealed only to the MSNBC nutjobs (like the author).
Posted on 10/13/2012 9:05:09 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
DANVILLE, Ky. — Whatever Joe Biden was drinking Thursday night, Barack Obama ought to order a case of it.
Biden took on Paul Ryan in the one and only vice presidential debate and did what Obama had failed to do last week in his debate with Mitt Romney: Biden not only won over the audience, but got under his opponent’s skin.
Biden smirked, sneered and openly laughed at many of Ryan’s responses. It could have looked rude, but Biden made it look tough.
After all, Biden was the 69-year-old defender, and Ryan was the 42-year-old challenger. But by the end of the evening, Joltin’ Joe had done real damage to his opponent.
In fact, as the 90 minutes flew by — it was the rare debate where one actually wanted it to go longer — Ryan began looking younger and younger. And not in a good way.
Both men have been in politics most of their adult lives, but Biden’s adult life has been longer. Biden was in the Senate so long, he knows a dozen ways of observing outward forms of politeness, while sticking a knife in your ribs and twisting it.
“With all due respect, that is a bunch of malarkey,” Biden said to Ryan at one point.
And how much respect is a bunch of malarkey due?
“This is a bunch of stuff,” Biden said of Ryan’s remarks at another point, leaving no doubt what word he meant instead of stuff.
“Romney said, ‘Aw, let Detroit go bankrupt,’ ” Biden said. “My friends and neighbors pay more than Gov. Romney in federal income tax! I’ve had it up to here!”
Ryan tried to dodge this right jab, but walked into a left hook instead. And it was of his own making. “He talks about Detroit?” Ryan said. “Mitt Romney is a car guy!”
Biden sat a few feet away from Ryan at the debate table and openly laughed in his face at this.
And one got the impression that Paul Ryan did not like to be laughed at. But did Biden care? He did not.
It was a very good evening for Biden, and he must have enjoyed the deliciousness of it: Barack Obama had easily knocked Biden out of the Democratic primaries four years ago, but here was Joe coming to Barack’s rescue now.
And instead of the score being Team Obama 0-2, it is now Team Obama 1-1.
Ryan was not knocked out. He had a few memorized zingers at his disposal. As to Romney’s now infamous “47 percent” statement, Ryan said, “Sometimes, as the vice president well knows, the words don’t always come out of your mouth the right way.”
The audience laughed at the reference to Biden’s past gaffes, but Biden didn’t make any gaffes Thursday night.
Instead, he not only stood his ground but advanced relentlessly on his opponent.
“Where did the recession come from?” Biden asked. “It came from this man’s voting!” And he stabbed his forefinger at Ryan like a dagger. “Their ideas are old, and their ideas are bad!”
Moderator Martha Raddatz did an admirable job of keeping the debate moving, even if she could not keep Biden from interrupting Ryan. Biden would interrupt the Devil himself, and one got the impression that Biden sometimes thought Ryan was the Devil himself.
Biden painted Ryan as a hypocrite by attacking the stimulus now, while begging for stimulus money in the past.
“He sent me two letters saying, by the way, ‘Can you send me stimulus money?’ ” Biden said. “ ‘It will create growth and jobs.’ Those are his words. And now, he’s sitting here looking at me?”
Ryan could only say weakly that, as a member of Congress, “that’s what we do.”
That’s what we do? Oh, my. That will never do.
“What would my friend do differently?” Biden said at one point. “My friend says 30 percent of people are takers.”
And by the end of the debate, Ryan had learned one thing: The only thing worse than being Joe Biden’s enemy is being called his friend.
Probably because Slow-Joe Biden kept looking more and more senile.
Obviously, the guy who wrote this has been taking the same mind-altering, reality-distorting brain candy that Obama and Biden are on. Kool-aid drinking Ozombie for sure.
I don’t know maybe Mitt shouldn’t even go to this debate( but then the media will crucify him and call him a coward.) This “debate” will be another organized media lynching of Romney as raddatz did to ryan.
Against all these odds ,Romney has to turn around the liberal gotcha questions into revealing how Obama is destroying America destroying our freedom and destroying our future with
1. 6 trilion in added Obama debt which we can never pay back, which will destroy America and our future, 1 trillion $ deficits every year etc.
2. how Obama’s abuse of power like its passing the dream act by itself requires Impeachment of Obama.
3. how the media never critizes Obama lets Obama get away with anything and how dangerous that is
4. the coming Taxmaggedon that Obama’s Obama care will hit all us from everywhere in 2013(convenient how it is after the election.
5. number of jobs lower than when Obama took office( by millions of jobs), and workforce grew by 8 million so workforce participation lowest in 30 years, very high real unemployment etc.
I have 500 more items but no time and this is off the top of my head.
Can’t wait to read this guy’s delusional column in three weeks.
LOL! Perfect!
this is a paid political announcement from the pravda of chi town
Media is just coaching the moderator and Obama to do more of what Biden did LIE , cheat, interrupt and don’t let Romney talk or finish any point as they did to Ryan.
I agree. Obama looking like a smiling simpleton will insure his defeat.
On what frickin' planet?
Naw, it really did look rude. And anyone who isn’t a die hard lefty saw it the same way.
Biden’s handlers were smart. They knew he couldn’t win on substance. So they they appealed to the low-information voter base that judges on appearance, the faux appearance of a wiser, more experienced, amused veep. And of course the Dim pundits spin it to the best of their ability.
And here's some of what Biden supposedly scored on Ryan with.
Now there’s an oldie I can live without!!!
How JOKER Joe can laugh at a nuclear armed Iran that is Hell-bent upon vaporizing Israel and attacking America and her interests around the world is nothing short of mind numbing.
JOKER Joe lost the debate as a direct result of his outrageous, childish, boorish, condescending insulting, totally disrespectful actions and responses to Ryan and his reasonable responses. JOKER Joe showed America the angry, evil fool he really is and again exposed Obama and his administration as being totally aloof, disengaged and unsympathetic to America, her people and America's security, and interests, both home and abroad.
Ryan was the only adult in the room at the debate and held his own against JOKER Joe and the biased liberal "moderator".
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Further proof that Biden appealed only to the MSNBC nutjobs (like the author).
Further proof that Biden appealed only to the MSNBC nutjobs (like the author).
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