Biden grinning like a jack-o-lantern, the moderator looks like a Barbie-zombie and Ryan sporting that Count Dracula widows peak; this was a Halloween party.
I’ve learned to tell when a conservative is about to make a good point.
It coincides exactly with the moment when the liberals present begin to interrupt, distract and change the subject.
It’s like Spiderman’s ‘spider sense’ warning them of an approaching unarguable conclusion.
Even worse than Biden’s hysterical, inappropriate laughter was toward the end when he lowered his voice & started talking slowly & calmly like he suddenly remembered his manners.
Well, the early punditry is saying Biden won…but I dunno how. They keep saying “Biden was Biden, even though he could have tuned it down a little”.
So Biden gets a pass for acting like a buffoon? And that means he wins?
Seriously, I don’t get it. Ryan stayed on message, and Biden acted like a complete jerk. And they call that Biden pushing around Ryan. That isn’t pushing someone around. If you want to see what that is like, re-watch the Romney-Obama debate. Romney was able to forcefully take control of that debate, but still do so with grace and tact. Biden just laughed every time Ryan spoke and said inane things in response like “Iran isn’t close to a nuclear weapon, they still don’t have a bomb to put that uranium in”.
Really? Any idiot knows that the material to put in the bomb is the hard part. How to make a bomb can be found on Wikipedia, and the materials needed for the bomb part are easily accessible. The U.S. didn’t spend a sizable chunk of their GDP during WWII to build bomb components for an atomic bomb. They spent it to enrich uranium as quickly as possible.
Biden about his travels in Afghanistan he sometimes travels there “in a helicopter, sometimes in a vehicle.” Well thanks for clarifying that it wasn’t a rowboat, Joe. (facepalm)
Here’s the thing: Ryan had a few opportunities to look right at Biden and say, “That’s horse crap and here’s how.” Then he gives very specific examples, and then points out the refusal of the Obama admin to take accountability for ANYTHING. When Biden brought up Osama Bin Laden, Ryan could have mentioned that Obama’s big mouth about SEAL Team 6 also cost some of those same SEALs their lives in retaliatory attacks. None of that was done. So Ryan did okay but he could have done better. Then again, he also could have smacked Joe Biden across the face without warning and returned to his speech and I’d have been okay with that.
CarolyntheMommy for VP! We should bring back independent election of VP for her. Who’s with me?
I had a better estimation of Ryan before this debate and a worse estimation of Biden. I blame IMAO for lowering the bar so much.
I am convinced that the future of debates is blog posts. The moderator gives them questions and they have a couple of days to come up with answers, and then another couple of days to respond to each other’s answers. Each response is no more than a few inches, but they can be hyperlinked to details.
The point is to force them to interact with each other and specific written questions in a thoughtful, non-real-time way. They can get input from other people and we The People can comment on individual parts.
Where was Biden tonight? All I saw was Clarabelle the grinning clown. The only thing missing was a horn and a bottle of seltzer water. Having watched him in action tonight I now I know where the term…”S**t eating grin” comes from.
…Joe’s smile reminded me of Donkey from Shrek….well any smiling donkey which isn’t surprising considering Biden was a smirking jack@$$.
…and all these years I thought a helicopter was a type of vehicle. I am glad Biden cleared that up.
…”not mathamatically possible” so now the guy who things jobs is a 3 letter word is a math expert.
…Lybia was an intelligence failure but five minutes later we are supposed to trust that we will know well ahead of time if Iran has a nuclear bomb. Maybe he means we will know by the mushroom cloud over Israel.
@17 – “Lybia was an intelligence failure but five minutes later we are supposed to trust that we will know well ahead of time if Iran has a nuclear bomb.”
I was over on weaslezippers, their comments are booming with people wanting to b-slap biden and his shill/moderator.
Biden grinning like a jack-o-lantern, the moderator looks like a Barbie-zombie and Ryan sporting that Count Dracula widows peak; this was a Halloween party.
I’ve learned to tell when a conservative is about to make a good point.
It coincides exactly with the moment when the liberals present begin to interrupt, distract and change the subject.
It’s like Spiderman’s ‘spider sense’ warning them of an approaching unarguable conclusion.
Maybe he had an attack of Bell’s Palsy?
Harvey, I don’t know about you, but I just couldn’t take Biden’s bellowing tonight. It made me want to do something with a 2 x 4. I turned it off.
Even worse than Biden’s hysterical, inappropriate laughter was toward the end when he lowered his voice & started talking slowly & calmly like he suddenly remembered his manners.
Manic… depressive…
I guess Obamacare didn’t cover his meds tonight.
Don’t insult Michael Scott.
He acted like Chaz from “Back to School.”
The CNN post-debate was Ryan 49% / Biden 41%…so, Wolf Blitzer called it “a draw.” I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.
Well, the early punditry is saying Biden won…but I dunno how. They keep saying “Biden was Biden, even though he could have tuned it down a little”.
So Biden gets a pass for acting like a buffoon? And that means he wins?
Seriously, I don’t get it. Ryan stayed on message, and Biden acted like a complete jerk. And they call that Biden pushing around Ryan. That isn’t pushing someone around. If you want to see what that is like, re-watch the Romney-Obama debate. Romney was able to forcefully take control of that debate, but still do so with grace and tact. Biden just laughed every time Ryan spoke and said inane things in response like “Iran isn’t close to a nuclear weapon, they still don’t have a bomb to put that uranium in”.
Really? Any idiot knows that the material to put in the bomb is the hard part. How to make a bomb can be found on Wikipedia, and the materials needed for the bomb part are easily accessible. The U.S. didn’t spend a sizable chunk of their GDP during WWII to build bomb components for an atomic bomb. They spent it to enrich uranium as quickly as possible.
Biden about his travels in Afghanistan he sometimes travels there “in a helicopter, sometimes in a vehicle.” Well thanks for clarifying that it wasn’t a rowboat, Joe. (facepalm)
Here’s the thing: Ryan had a few opportunities to look right at Biden and say, “That’s horse crap and here’s how.” Then he gives very specific examples, and then points out the refusal of the Obama admin to take accountability for ANYTHING. When Biden brought up Osama Bin Laden, Ryan could have mentioned that Obama’s big mouth about SEAL Team 6 also cost some of those same SEALs their lives in retaliatory attacks. None of that was done. So Ryan did okay but he could have done better. Then again, he also could have smacked Joe Biden across the face without warning and returned to his speech and I’d have been okay with that.
CarolyntheMommy for VP! We should bring back independent election of VP for her. Who’s with me?
I had a better estimation of Ryan before this debate and a worse estimation of Biden. I blame IMAO for lowering the bar so much.
I am convinced that the future of debates is blog posts. The moderator gives them questions and they have a couple of days to come up with answers, and then another couple of days to respond to each other’s answers. Each response is no more than a few inches, but they can be hyperlinked to details.
The point is to force them to interact with each other and specific written questions in a thoughtful, non-real-time way. They can get input from other people and we The People can comment on individual parts.
The RNC already put out an ad mocking ‘Laughing Joe”.
Where was Biden tonight? All I saw was Clarabelle the grinning clown. The only thing missing was a horn and a bottle of seltzer water. Having watched him in action tonight I now I know where the term…”S**t eating grin” comes from.
Joe Biden? More like Joe Sniden
You guys, Biden was only laughing like that because the camera guy had a sock puppet Obama gave them to keep Joe amused
Good ad, 4of7. It’s disturbing and they even left out Biden’s heavy breathing at the beginning of Ryan’s answers.
…Joe’s smile reminded me of Donkey from Shrek….well any smiling donkey which isn’t surprising considering Biden was a smirking jack@$$.
…and all these years I thought a helicopter was a type of vehicle. I am glad Biden cleared that up.
…”not mathamatically possible” so now the guy who things jobs is a 3 letter word is a math expert.
…Lybia was an intelligence failure but five minutes later we are supposed to trust that we will know well ahead of time if Iran has a nuclear bomb. Maybe he means we will know by the mushroom cloud over Israel.
@17 – “Lybia was an intelligence failure but five minutes later we are supposed to trust that we will know well ahead of time if Iran has a nuclear bomb.”
Excellent catch on that one.
Bacon to you, sir.