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This one
was hard to watch, and I suspect many fewer people did watch it than
watched the first presidential debate. The vice-presidential debate
resembled one of those cacophonous political talk shows that call it
dialogue when they encourage guests to talk over each other. Biden was
the chief, almost the only, offender, but if you had listened over the
radio you might have thought he won anyway, so oleaginous and unashamed
was he. This was demagogy old-school style, without a trace of irony,
betrayed only by the Joker-like smile. Thank goodness for television.
Charles R. Kesler
jimgeraghty
Clearly, the most unnerving and unstable performance in a presidential
debate since David Palmer debated Sen. John Keeler.
charlescwcooke If the AP and CNN polls are
accurate—and who knows?—Paul Ryan won the VP debate without being
allowed to finish more than a few sentences.
TIME’s Michael Scherer:: “Not sure debate cameras have been
light tested for Biden’s teeth. Best to watch with sunglasses.”
Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein: “Biden’s strategy seems to be to
laugh at Ryan constantly. Will it work to infantalize Ryan, or backfire
like Gore sighing?”
Republican strategist Ron Bonjean: “Biden laughing
does not come off with the intended effect. It is actually hurting him.
Looks very condescending.”
Movie critic Roger Ebert: “Joe! Stop smiling and
laughing!”
Chris
Wallace: I've never seen a candidate as disrespectful as Biden...
Biden
Interrupted Ryan 82 Times?
It's
over.for Obama. Remember these, from 2008?
At the time I thought those "warnings" were calculated to create an
atmosphere of inevitability about the result; discourage
the
Republican base. In retrospect, I think it was the
emergence of the
thug mentality that has so manifested itself with this regime. At
any
rate, that table has clearly turned. Guess how the riot thing
works today?
That's right. And it will be spontaneous and brutal.
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