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White House defends Biden's debate demeanor
Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 10/12/2012 5:06:55 PM
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| If Vice President Joseph R. Biden smiled too much during his debate Thursday night, the White House said the blame lies with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and his position on the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus plan. Many viewers said Mr. Biden appeared condescending or arrogant by smiling and laughing while Mr. Ryan, the vice presidential nominee from Wisconsin, was speaking during their debate in Danville, Ky. But White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday the vice president likely couldn't help himself. "When Congressman Ryan starts attacking the administration over the [stimulus bill] and the split-screen shows the vice president smiling,
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Comments: So it's Paul Ryan's fault Biden is a jackass.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
leviteprez, 10/12/2012 5:13:14 PM (No. 8928955)
IF the white house is defending that fiasco of personality, they will get swamped in Nov.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 10/12/2012 5:13:45 PM (No. 8928959)
Let the Regime keep digging, it won't be long before they have a hole big enough to bury the whole party. Just was reading comments to an article on Yahoo, the Dems are being eviscerated. On poster claimed that Ryan had 4.4 million hits on his Facebook page to Bite Me's 447,000.
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butch, 10/12/2012 5:18:27 PM (No. 8928969)
Biden flat-out lied about what the administration did - or failed to do - in Libya. Not a misunderstanding or a different viewpoint; Biden lied about now-revealed facts. I wish Paul Ryan had pressed the point more forcefully, but Martha Raddatz kept interrupting him.
Here's a new bumper-sticker slogan for lefties everywhere: Obama lied and four men died!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Keekng, 10/12/2012 5:20:07 PM (No. 8928974)
Birds of a feather......
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
QRP, 10/12/2012 5:32:51 PM (No. 8928993)
You probably should not have a guy with impulse control problems just a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Sorry guys, Mr. Biden has shown he is not fit to be Vice President.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
oriton, 10/12/2012 5:41:51 PM (No. 8929010)
If you didn't catch "The Five" today, you should catch it online or something. It was hot! Bob was acting like Biden, full force. He pi$$ed off Dana and Eric big time with the junk he was saying. He was angry and almost screaming at them. "Cut it off, cut it off." He called Ryan "young boy." He was off the hinge. You need to check it out. That was the best "Five" I've ever seen. The four got to see what we see out here big time. Here's wishing "The Five" will become "The Four at Five."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Keekng, 10/12/2012 6:18:46 PM (No. 8929071)
#6, Beckel is much more palatable than Juan Williams.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kayworthy, 10/12/2012 6:48:08 PM (No. 8929107)
He practiced the smirky smile with that biker chick. He kept picturing a tattooed Ryan sitting on his lap.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wendybird, 10/12/2012 8:01:18 PM (No. 8929228)
I thought that the Joe Biden and Martha Radish tag team did great.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/12/2012 8:11:04 PM (No. 8929249)
I don't think it was Biden's idea to act that way in the debate. News broke the other day that David Axelrod was dissatisfied with Biden's debate preparation and jumped in to handle it personally. So I think Biden was last night performing at Axelrod's (and possibly by extension, Obama's) direction and achieving Axelrod's goals. I think that also explains the over the top nature of that performance. I think Axelrod instructed Biden to laugh a lot and interrupt a lot, and obedient Biden, took it to the next level to be absolutely sure he was satisfying Axelrod's performance plan.
And of course the plan was to re-infuse the recently demoralized base with confidence and bravado. IMO, it was unpersuasive to Independents, if not a turn off, and definitely a turnoff to a lot of women who were reminded by Joe of some of the most obnoxious men they'd endured in their personal or workplace lives. So Axelrod's plan to gin up morale in the Dem base came at no small cost, IMO.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/12/2012 8:17:16 PM (No. 8929267)
(#10, cont.) Plus I think somebody worked the refs. IMO, Axelrod or someone or peer pressure got to Radditz with the word or encouragement that she needed to be the un-Lehrer. And the ridiculously intrusive Radditz was all of that. Like a competent umpiring or refereeing effort, years from now, one should not even be sure who the moderator was... Not in this debate, though. Radditz made herself memorable. One of the very worst moderator performances ever in a presidential debate, IMO.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 10/12/2012 9:38:04 PM (No. 8929390)
Good points, #10/11, especially the theory about Axelrod. Whenever dirty play and cheating are over the top evident, you can be sure Axelfuhrer's greasy fingerprints are all over it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone, 10/12/2012 9:57:32 PM (No. 8929413)
Well, you have to figure that the Obama crew would blame someone, they always do.
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Washington - President Barack Obama warned Syria on Friday that its use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer" for the United States but made clear he was in no rush to intervene in the civil war there on the basis of evidence he said was still preliminary. Speaking a day after the disclosure of U.S. intelligence that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against its own people, Obama talked tough while calling for patience as he sought to fend off pressure for a swift response against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Horrific as it is when mortars are being fired on civilians and people
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