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Live Thread: Vice Presidential Debate 9:00 P.M. EDT 10/11/12 Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan
Commission on Presidential Debates ^ | Thursday, October 11, 2012

Posted on 10/11/2012 5:10:45 PM PDT by kristinn

All debates will take place from 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Vice presidential debate:
Thursday, October 11
Centre College, Danville, KY
Moderator: Martha Raddatz, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, ABC News

Online links:

C-SPAN

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2012debates; 2012veep; 2012vpdebate; angryjoe; biden; emo; live; oct11; paulryan; popcorn; standupchuck; thread; vpdebate
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To: patriciamary

Ryan looked great and very professional. VP Biden played the role he needed to play. Raddatz actually hurt Biden by letting him talk.

Ryan came across as thoughtful. It was a good performance.


1,001 posted on 10/11/2012 7:58:50 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: All

I’ve never seen a debate participant behave in a more obnoxious and rude manner in my life. I wonder how it will play out with the public. Ryan performed up to his experience level unfortunately. Not aggressive enough in talking over the interruptions and not aggressive enough in demanding equal treatment from Martha. He held his own on substance but missed several opportunities to call out Biden on outright lies (Libya is an example). Ryan finished strong though.


1,002 posted on 10/11/2012 7:59:21 PM PDT by PAR
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To: Darnright

Biden has gotten more than equal time and then some.

It is as you say, like a drunk at the bar. A blowhard, loudmouth, know-it-all who does not listen to anyone but himself and only part time at that.

Ryan will not lose this debate. Biden and Raditz will win it. She needs equal billing on the ticket.

I’d have bitch slapped Biden several times:

1. Never call him Joe. Always call him Mr. Biden drawing attention to his age and not necessarily superiority
2. When Biden said they would not put troops into Syria I would have said YOU ALREADY HAVE! You put chemical troops in yesterday, at least that is when you announced it, on the Syrian / Jordanian border. Who will support them when they get in trouble?


1,003 posted on 10/11/2012 7:59:23 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: goron

This was no debate. I suggest she go back to High School and learn what it means. This was a very smug failed loser getting time and time again to stay OFF DEBATE.


1,004 posted on 10/11/2012 7:59:24 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: kevao
Based on his performance.Romney did not let Obama or the moderator take charge. Why has't Ryan firmly responded to the constant interruptions by Biden & MODERATOR.
1,005 posted on 10/11/2012 7:59:47 PM PDT by patriciamary (9)
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To: goron
Martha the moderator is a C0MPLETE FAILURE and should be fired!

Fired from what? She's a MSM journalist, who in fact even earned a bonus tonight!

Fired should be the GOP! Dead silence on the fact that the wife of an incumbent administration official was moderating a debate? No effin' way that would fly if a Pubbie were in the WH. No. Effin'. Way.

1,006 posted on 10/11/2012 8:00:12 PM PDT by kevao (Is your ocean any lower than it was four years ago?)
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To: Fresh Wind
Two hours ago, I didn’t hate Biden.

Now I do.

Two hours ago I didn't have any use for Biden and I still don't. Won't say I hate him personally but in general I hate arrogant assholes. And I'm pretty sure most people do.

1,007 posted on 10/11/2012 8:00:51 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (I will not comply.)
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To: sonic109

We’ll fluoridate the water. It will sap them of their precious bodily fluids.


1,008 posted on 10/11/2012 8:01:08 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: kristinn
The BEST line of the night:

"I always mean what I say" [Joe Biden]

Talk about the gift that keeps on giving ...

This is gonna be the next Romney commercial. Use the sound bite and then compile all of Biden gaffes of the last 4 years ...

1,009 posted on 10/11/2012 8:01:10 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Today that was in Ryan’s favor.


1,010 posted on 10/11/2012 8:01:16 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: voteNRA

>Per FOX the unofficial time count was just under 42 minutes for the jerk vs. just over 40 minutes for Ryan <

And just how many of Ryan’s 40 minutes had Biden yelling over the Congressman?


1,011 posted on 10/11/2012 8:01:18 PM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: KansasGirl; All

CNN destroyed Biden- especially Gergen; said he looked childish and condescending...said it won’t go over well with the American people...


1,012 posted on 10/11/2012 8:02:08 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: chessplayer
You mean like the way obama, by being meek, let Romney hang himself in their debate?

Being meek is NOT a synonym for being out of touch.

1,013 posted on 10/11/2012 8:02:16 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Jim Robinson

What is the status of the new servers?

Will we have them by next week’s debate?


1,014 posted on 10/11/2012 8:03:44 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: ncalburt

Yes, Joe Biden was a jerk and the moderation was a hack, BUT Paul Ryan was passionLESS and passive. He didn’t even bring up the recent things Biden has said about the Obama administration’s plan to raise taxes $1 trillion or the middle class being buried for the last 4 years... I’m just sick.


1,015 posted on 10/11/2012 8:03:56 PM PDT by Southnsoul
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To: lapsus calami

This could be the Anti JFK/Nixon Moment.

The visual made Biden Smarmy.

He laughed at peoples pain.
He smirked over dead Americans

I did NOT want to have a beer with him.


1,016 posted on 10/11/2012 8:03:58 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bigbob

Mr. Biden. I’m doing you the courtesy of letting you speak without interrupting you. Why don’t you do the same for me?

The whole mess was wrong on so many levels. Romney didn’t lose. Biden and Raditz hardly let him compete and when they did didn’t let him finish.

Like I said before, Raditz has earned equal billing position on the bo / plugs ticket.


1,017 posted on 10/11/2012 8:04:25 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Salamander
Absolutely right. I haven't seen a good old-fashioned leftist street thug shout-down like this since I was a student at UW-Madison, 40-some years ago.

Biden wasn't playing to make his points, he was playing to make sure Ryan didn't get a chance to make his points, by making sure no one could hear him. Standard leftist thug tactic. Annoying as hell but brutally effective.

1,018 posted on 10/11/2012 8:04:41 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (OVERTHROW OBAMA!)
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To: patriciamary
It’s called politics,Ryan should know this.Ryan is terrible

I know for one thing. Your punctuation stinks. That's the highlight of a concern troll.

If you were a normal American, who cared about the future of this country, you wouldn't have bought into Biden's snarky non-answers.

Call it for Biden if that's your view. I certainly have a different one.

1,019 posted on 10/11/2012 8:04:54 PM PDT by mplsconservative (A non-vote is a vote FOR 0bama.)
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CNN’s focus group - 1/3 Biden 1/3 Ryan 1/3 Undecided


1,020 posted on 10/11/2012 8:04:56 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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