Ghost of an over-confident Al Gore will haunt smirking Vice President Joe Biden.....

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10/12/12 | Toby Harnden

[Justaham]

Original title:Ghost of an over-confident Al Gore will haunt smirking Vice President Joe Biden who tried too hard to make up for his boss' weakness . . . and was caught fibbing about the U.S. intelligence community
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Joe Biden came out swinging at Paul Ryan, flailing wildly and landing a few punches on his own jaw as well as his opponent's.

He showed the kind of spirit and populist anger that President Barack Obama was so conspicuously lacking and has cheered up many demoralised Democrats.

But Biden's performance here in Danville, Kentucky was both comical and self-defeating. Just as Al Gore sighed and rolled his eyes in 2000, so Biden smirked and guffawed.

His brief was to show the aggression that Obama so obviously lacked when the President went up against Mitt Romney last week. But as the dust settles today many will be left feeling that he went too far, tried too hard.

Many women and swing voters will have hated his condescending, swaggering display.

Perhaps the even bigger problem the Obama campaign will have in the coming days is that Biden, again just like Gore in 2000, repeatedly exaggerated and mischaracterised for effect.

And worse than Gore - who was caught in a series of small lies in 2000 - Biden was demonstrably untruthful in some big respects.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This was the perfect moment for Ryan to say “you mean the same intelligence you said failed you in Libya”?

I caught that too. That was a lobbed softball for Ryan and he didn't even see it cross the plate.

[Wings-n-Wind]

There is a noticeable pattern here... *************

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[autumnraine]

And Ryan came across as not only smart, polite but sympathetic as well. The expression on his face when Biden acted up just made the mom in me go “Awwww....”

[GOPJ]

Many women and swing voters will have hated his condescending, swaggering display.

Just spoke to a young liberal - college student - member of the family. She said she didn't like what Biden did.

She was embarrassed.

She said I wouldn't like it if some conservative had acted such a disrespectful way - and I agreed with her. She was right. I suspect that the more gracious liberals weren't proud of the way Biden acted either. He was boorish - they know it.