Joe Biden showed what is popular with the Democrat base.
So Obama comes on stage with that kind of attitude, he will look exactly like an “angry black man”, Richard Pryor or Chris Rock. With maybe a little of Keith Ellison thrown in.
I say, good for him. This will play well with the activists, and the fringes, but there is a good probability that it will backfire big time with the “moderate” middle.
Mr. “Well-spoken” will go away, perhaps for all time, with this display of seething rage and snorting contempt we could expect. But the playbook says, attack, and attack again, using the most hurtful of charges, and if the opponent disproves the validity of the charge, using patience and logic, wait about five minutes, and make it again. Really pound on class warfare, gender warfare, and need I say it, race in every subtle and not so subtle way it can be worked in.
It is a nuanced application of that old courtroom trick of lawyers, applied to debate. If the facts are against you, argue the theoretical, and if the theories are against you, argue the facts (carefully selected, of course). If both the theories and facts are against you, pound the table and loudly make ad hominem assertions about your opponent.
If you are going down in flames, make the show as spectacular as possible.
Mitt should just say, “Mr. president, are you here to debate the facts, or just emulate that idiot vice-president of yours?”