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Ryan prepares to take on
skilled debater Biden
Associated Press, by Philip Elliott
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 10/10/2012 11:54:09 PM
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| Washington - To prepare for his biggest test yet on the national stage, untested debater Paul Ryan has been hauling two thick briefing books around the country and intently studying up on Vice President Joe Biden, who has been sparring over public policy since the Wisconsin congressman was learning how to talk. Ryan, the 42-year-old Republican vice presidential nominee, has suggested his youth will be an asset in connecting with voters at the sole vice presidential debate Thursday in Kentucky against the 69-year-old former senator.
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ALWAYS the presumption that Biden is the "skilled" one.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Doc Obiwan, 10/10/2012 11:57:49 PM (No. 8924589)
I *am* worried about this. Biden can lie faster than most people can correct him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NoLibsNoLies, 10/10/2012 11:59:07 PM (No. 8924593)
Address Slow Joe as "Mr. Kinnock."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross, 10/11/2012 12:04:10 AM (No. 8924601)
The media has already written the articles and scripted the TV spots declaring Biden the clear winner and asking how Ryan could come across so arrogantly. The actual debate is immaterial to them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 10/11/2012 12:06:28 AM (No. 8924603)
#1 makes a very telling point. If Ryan attempts to fisk even a small portion of the 360 degree rotary sprinkler of lies the shameless Biden is going to tell (as Biden did against Gov. Palin in 2008), he won't have any time left to make his own points. But I know that Ryan, ensconced for the past several days in St. Petersburg's posh Vinoy Hotel, is preparing for this, and will choose his rejoinders wisely. Biden has no shame, but thankfully he also has no brain.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 10/11/2012 12:22:47 AM (No. 8924619)
Don't have a crystal ball but I don't expect much from Plugs. Next month he will be 70. When my father turned 70 we took the remote controls away from him. Hope Ryan will ask him about his plans to raise taxes a trillion or two and that the middle class has been buried for 4 years.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 10/11/2012 1:12:57 AM (No. 8924698)
...you go AP...all that skill did well for him 4 years ago...
...and that was just a girl from the north country...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono, 10/11/2012 1:42:28 AM (No. 8924721)
If a "skilled debater" means feeling at ease asserting things one just makes up on the fly, then Biden's that, and more.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
locarno, 10/11/2012 2:18:02 AM (No. 8924745)
This is pure spin by the WH spokesman at the AP. I've seen Biden debate before, and its nothing to be proud of. As I see it, Biden has only two possible avenues to even appear to have 'won' this debate: 1. Is a major gaffe or fold up by Ryan. This seems the most unlikely as not only is Ryan articulate and photogenic. And if he has been 'hitting the books' as they are reporting, I'm less concerned about this part. The second possibility is also the most likely: A leftist tag-team by Raddatz and Biden to give the 'appearance' of a Biden victory. This, in my opinion, is the most dangerous and likely scenario.
Remember that debates on this level are more about appearances as oppose to substance. If you debate on substance, Ryan runs rings around Biden. And the fix is already in to not let that happen again. All Obama wants is an 'appearance' of a victory, to change the momentum, and the news headlines of course.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
billa, 10/11/2012 3:00:28 AM (No. 8924761)
Like the media keeps pressing O's amazing oratory skills, which could be anything but the truth, the media, likewise plugs Biden's amazing debate skills.
Really? When? Just because he has been in public office since the Paleolithic era, makes him no more or no less a good debater than a freshman Senator. But what it does point out is that the people of Delaware are certified idiots for electing him back to office for 40 years.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BcdErick, 10/11/2012 5:02:22 AM (No. 8924788)
I think people here should know that neither AP or Yahoo will let me comment anymore on their mindless Obama cheer leading. I don't like Obama and I'm not shy about it. My posts on those two sites were very popular if you judge by the "likes". Both partisan "news" organizations refuse to respond to my inquires as to what's up. And they don't say they have banned me. They simply continue their cheer leading. It figures.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Aunt Agnes, 10/11/2012 7:07:12 AM (No. 8924902)
Biden is approaching 70. He has suffered an aneurysm, an embolism, brain surgery and even though he had no brain cells to spare, he has abused alcohol. I'm not worried about Ryan's debate performance.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 10/11/2012 7:33:51 AM (No. 8924956)
Ryan has knocked down bigger than Joe just GETTING to this debate. Witness his healthcare meeting with the Won a while back. Note to Joe-we'll notice if you continually use your middle finger to scratch your fore,, er sixhead.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn´t have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE´-ehv) nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. He says it´s unclear whether either ever applied and the applications aren´t considered public records.
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Lots of “tough questions” are being asked about why the FBI--having interviewed the older Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in 2011--failed to continue to keep tabs on him. But that is the wrong question to be asking. The much more pressing question is: why the FBI didn’t nab the bombers on Monday night? After all, they hadn’t skipped town, and one of them--Tamerlan--was sitting "on file" as someone whom the Russian government said they suspected was an Islamist terrorist. A man they repeatedly interviewed just two years ago. Why did no one check those files, within minutes of the
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