If I were a doddering, old fool with years of political experience under my belt, I would have slapped Obama on the shoulder after tonight's debate and say: "THAT'S how a debate should go, sonny Jim!"
If I were a doddering, old fool....
Biden handled himself well (certainly much better than his boss) and did better than expected. His mode of speech was fluid and engaging, even if he did lie about many things and came off as smug, arrogant, interrupting and dismissive.
Paul Ryan did very well in that he was collected, calm, in possession of the facts and held his own against both Biden and the moderator (who clearly cut him off in medias res).
Just a few of Biden's lies:
-the middle-class is doing much worse than it was four years ago with its income twenty percent lower than in 1995 and with health-care costs jumping to 4.6 %.
-there is no voucher system in the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan but there are serious tax increases under Obamacare.
- the embassy attack was a deliberate strike and not the result of a video. Requests sent to the State Department for extra security were ignored.
-Obama met with Benjamin Netanyahu after Obama snubbed a meeting with the Israeli leader for talk shows and after Netanyahu addressed the UN.
-the unpopular nationalised heathcare plan would, in fact, penalise Catholic institutions for violating their beliefs.
-Iran is very close, perhaps much closer than previously thought, to getting a nuclear weapon.
If I were a doddering, old fool....
Biden handled himself well (certainly much better than his boss) and did better than expected. His mode of speech was fluid and engaging, even if he did lie about many things and came off as smug, arrogant, interrupting and dismissive.
Paul Ryan did very well in that he was collected, calm, in possession of the facts and held his own against both Biden and the moderator (who clearly cut him off in medias res).
Just a few of Biden's lies:
-the middle-class is doing much worse than it was four years ago with its income twenty percent lower than in 1995 and with health-care costs jumping to 4.6 %.
-there is no voucher system in the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan but there are serious tax increases under Obamacare.
- the embassy attack was a deliberate strike and not the result of a video. Requests sent to the State Department for extra security were ignored.
-Obama met with Benjamin Netanyahu after Obama snubbed a meeting with the Israeli leader for talk shows and after Netanyahu addressed the UN.
-the unpopular nationalised heathcare plan would, in fact, penalise Catholic institutions for violating their beliefs.
-Iran is very close, perhaps much closer than previously thought, to getting a nuclear weapon.
2 comments:
The consensus, shortly after the debate, was a draw to-very-narrow-win-for-Ryan. That was a consensus among the (mostly liberal) news media representatives and analysts from both/all sides of the political spectrum.
Take even the most positive (for Democrats) slant that it was a "draw", or EVEN, with no real winner emerging. Ryan is 42, an age in politics that is somewhat like being HALF that age in most other lines of work. You'd think that Biden, a career politician who is pushing 70, wouldn't have much trouble achieving a decisive victory in those circumstances.
It's a matter of weeks now & the real question is whether the people who vote for SELFISH reasons and misguided conceptions of what is "hip" will be allowed to decide the outcome of this election. I can guarantee that most of them either didn't watch, or didn't understand most of either of the debates.
HAROLD HECUBA
I think the truly dyed-in-the-wool and utterly brainless will vote for Obama no matter what. It is the tired, unemployed and the independent vote that will turn the tide (hopefully).
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