Congressman Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden.
In one of the most clear-cut, decisive victories I have ever seen in a televised debate, Vice President Joe Biden utterly trounced Paul Ryan. The defeat was total. There wasn’t even a smidgen of doubt. Most importantly, it was exactly what the bewildered Democrats needed. After the confusing (and lie-ridden) Romney obfuscation of the first presidential debate, the clear cut, clean and, above all, stark difference drawn between the GOP’s atavistic world views and the sensible, progressive agenda of the Obama administration was a breath of fresh air.
Martha Raddatz did a splendid job keeping the debate on track and holding the participants’ feet to the fire. She didn’t let them wander or rudely shout over each other, and this divine combination of sternness and direction shined the light of reason upon these two men. The result was a shockingly clear narrative of how the Republicans want to destroy social security and health care in this country, while robbing women of the hard-won right to control their own bodies.
Biden laughed, often and openly, at the flagrant stupidity of Paul Ryan, and it was a joy to see that someone had the temerity to react realistically to the garbage coming out of the challenger’s mouth.
This much-deserved ridicule the vice-president heaped on Ryan has been attacked by GOP pundits. They seem to believe it is rude to openly ridicule a man that wants to hand over the nation’s retirement plan to Wall Street, an organization with more thugs and thieves than the Chicago Outfit. The assertion that we should turn over the people’s money to these vipers deserves to be mocked, openly and loudly. Thank god someone finally had the cojones to do it.
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The only people that saw that debate as a Biden win is the very left wing of the Democrat party. The pro Democrats are embarrassed. Witness Joe Trippi’s response – Trippi is hardly a republican hack. Uncle Joe was all over the place – if he would have contained his laughter at the economy, Libya, a nuclear Iran I’d give you that the debate was a draw. Old Joe doesnt even know that Syria isn’t 5X the size of Libya, or that his own Administration’s tax plan covers those making 250K and up – he claimed $1,000,000 and up. We are supposed to truly believe the intelligence stating Iran is nowhere near having a nuke, yet he claims the intel failed us on Libya. I could go on and on. Tues will be interesting, but seriously if I were you I’d start practicing saying President Romney….
The Romney/Ryan plan is going to lower taxes 20% AND close the deficit? How? Even Paul Ryan, the supposed budget wonk, couldn’t answer that at the debate. He says that they’ll have to work that out in bipartisan manner working with Congress. This from a Republican Congressman who secretly met with other Republicans on the eve of President Obama’s inauguration to decide NOT to work with Democrats. To bring down this president by creating gridlock in Congress so nothing gets done. And now we’re to believe that he will suddenly work in a bipartisan manner? He’s full of it.
And Joe Biden did an excellent job of showing the American people what a liar and hypocrite Paul Ryan is. Ryan and those of his kind have been lying about the stimulus, saying it didn’t work. Then, old Joe brought up the letters that Ryan sent to him asking for stimulus money for projects in his district and how these projects would create jobs. What a hypocrite.
Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican do-nothings are the problem, not the solution. I hope that Paul Ryan not only loses his bid to become vice president, but also loses his congressional seat. Then he can go back to Janesville and get a real job in the real world, instead of living off the government teat, all the while telling everyone else that government is the problem.
And Joe Biden has been on the government teat hiow long again?
Biden’s performance was not optimal.
The answer to your question is that we are better off than we were four years ago. Four years ago the economy was in free-fall and we were shedding 800,000 jobs a month, banks were going under, and the stock market was dropping like a rock. That has all turned around. Is the economy great? No, but there is no question that we are better off than we were four years ago.
Second, your assertion that Obama had a Democratic Congress for his first two years is another favorite falsehood spread by the usual group of right-wing media liars. The Democrats had a supermajority for exactly 72 days, the time between Al Franken finally taking his Senate seat and Ted Kennedy’s passing. 72 days, NOT two years.