Live Thread: Vice Presidential Debate 9:00 P.M. EDT 10/11/12 Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan

Commission on Presidential Debates ^ | Thursday, October 11, 2012

[kristinn]

All debates will take place from 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Vice presidential debate:
Thursday, October 11
Centre College, Danville, KY
Moderator: Martha Raddatz, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, ABC News

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[chessplayer]

Once again the moderator interrupts Ryan and Biden talks over him. This is a two against one debate. But it’s still a complete opposite of the Romney-obama debate. Biden is the confidant one in this debate. Libs were down in the dumps listening to the first debate because they knew obama was losing. Tonight they are ecstatic. And Bidens constant smiling and laughing isn’t going to hurt him like Gores sighing did.

[Jane Long]

Which is it Joe...are we sending in more Americans or more Afghans?

[writer33]

Yes, ma’am. Martha is there to stifle Ryan.

[Doogle]

...now we know why this RATSHITZ was bought in as the ringer, she can’t keep her mouth shut...?????..wonder if Clinton knows her?

[lapsus calami]

 

 

I see the makings of a Saturday Night Live skit here - Ryan starts to answer a question, Biden shoves him out of the way and starts babbling every time, then after a while the moderator gets up and sits next to Biden. Am not an SNL fan these days and am certainly not a network TV fan, but it'll be interesting to see what they come up with this week.

 

 

[presently no screen name]

PERFECT!!

[markomalley]

[RedMDer]

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[voteNRA]

Not only is Joe interrupting and laughing inappropriately constantly - He keeps doing the "angry old man" poking gesture when he gets upset.

Watching on TV I feel like he thinks I'm a child he needs to lecture - it pisses me off. Hopefully I'm not the only one that notices that

[surrey]

My husband is ready to shoot the tv.

[matt04]

And the amount of time Martha allowed Bite Me keep talking after interrupting. This is Biden/Martha vs Ryan.

[Jane Long]

If Uncle Joe calls Romney and Ryan his “friends” one more time, I’ll hurl.

[samtheman]

I don’t blame the moderator for the lackluster performance by Ryan.

[Miss Didi]

Well, on Facebook the libs are all excited about Uncle Joe and Martha beating up Ryan. My Repub friends are all screaming that this is bizarre and an unfair fight.

[Windflier]

@piersmorgan Wow. Biden is radiating a lethal smirk...

Maybe I should join the wife in the living room. You can't hear a 'lethal smirk' on the radio. What I can hear, is Biden acting like an overbearing bully who refuses to let his opponent get a word in edgewise. That can't be going over well with focus groups and most viewers.

[pops88]

It’s like watching a mouse dropped into a hungry snake tank, or speaking tank, like an MMORPG battle against an NPC. Talk about a heavily stacked deck.

[goron]

"Does Ryan get to speak at all?"


I wish Ryan would just stand up and smack the crap out of Crazy Joe the next time Biden interrupts. The interruptions are p*ssing me off!

[printhead]

This beotch moderator allowing Joe to interrupt P.R. and then say to Joe to respond quickly while P.R. didn’t even finish his answer, I am so f’n pi$$ed. What’s this townhall shi* format I keep hearing about? Does anybody remember early on when zero was campaigning, when he said Iraq was not the good war? That Afghanistan is? Therefore shifting our efforts to Afghanistan? They’re both going to shi* and this buffoon keeps interrupting, while this beotch keeps pulling him along. Did I say I’m f’n pi$$ed?

[mplsconservative]

What is this? The Joe Biden Show?

[kevao]

Biden wins by default, because Mrs. FCC Chairman won’t allow Ryan to complete one single fucking sentence without Biden interrupting! And, instead of telling Biden to STFU to let Ryan finish, she turns it over to Biden.