Posted on 10/14/2012 12:38:07 PM PDT by presidio9
Vice President Biden's sharp retort to Rep. Paul Ryan's invocation of President John F. Kennedy was by far the single biggest single moment of the debate according to Twitter metrics.
"Oh, now you're Jack Kennedy?" Biden quipped when Ryan asserted that Kennedy had successfully lowered taxes to foster economic growth.
After Biden's retort, Twitter erupted with 58,275 tweets per minute, more than at any other point in the debate.
Biden's comments brought to mind the other famous Jack Kennedy debate moment in which Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen slammed his Republican opponent Dan Quayle for comparing himself to Jack Kennedy with the retort: "Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
Thursday's debate was in essence a Lloyd Bentsen moment for tax and budget wonks.
Ryan was right that Kennedy advocated lowering taxes, but it may have been Ryan's appropriation of Kennedy's legacy that stung Democrats.
"There is this tremendous love for Jack Kennedy for reasons hard to explain," said Alan Brinkley, a Columbia University American History professor who has written a book about Kennedy. "But Democrats still believe that Jack Kennedy is their great messiah and so I think that's what made so many Democrats angry."
On the tax policy, at least, Ryan was mostly right.
Kennedy did propose lowering taxes early on in his administration, a step he said was necessary to bring the country out of an economic recession.
"If we are to prevail in the long run, we must expand the long-run strength of our economy. We must move along the path to a higher rate of growth and full employment," Kennedy said in his 1963 State of the Union address. "To achieve these greater gains,
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Well, Hitlary and Moochelle remind me of my first wife.
So there.
I was waiting for you to show up....
Considering that apparently you have a fan base here and somebody posted a glossy portrait of you.
;-)
[ Kennedy in his personal life was a lout. But as a President hes far more conservative, and America centered than Bush, Romney, Santorum, Huckster, etc. ]
Those guys are Union Goons, all do not oppose the Unions a wit.. either did Kennedy..
In “those” days being a communist was frowned upon..
John Birch was at his zenith... opposed by all socialists..
Much like Ron Paul is now.. all democrat and republican socialists hate him..
John Birch was and is proved to be almost totally completely correct in his assessments..
Ron Paul’s Political Tourettes is a problem though..
He don’t know when to shut up.... Brilliance then blah bah blah.. droool.. eye roll..
At that moment, RyAan should have said to Biden, “You’re no Lloyd Bentsen”. Called Plugs bluff, and showed the world what a bufoon he was.
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