I have some areas of concern with regard to her.
You are correct in that she did ask some pointed questions of Biden, and she even followed up with some rather uncomfortable questions and comments as well.
She shouldn’t have allowed Biden to interrupt as he did. That was so ungentlemanly, that it hurt him. So even though she did allow it, it actually cost Biden, something I don’t think she intended.
As for her treatment of Ryan, it did seem to me that several times she interrupted him to change the subject, just as he was venturing into fertile ground.
At one point, she didn’t allow him to respond fully before making a statement, that he wasn’t answering her question. And then she more or less made a statement that he couldn’t provide the answer to her question, so lets move on.
In general terms, I do agree with you to a certain extent, but I think she gave Biden too much latitude, and I don’t really think she gave Ryan a fare shake at times.
Someone during the CNN after game show stated that she didn’t interrupt Biden as she had Ryan, to move on. It was true, and I hadn’t thought of it that way.
There are times when I try to be even handed as you are here, and then someone brings up an aspect that makes me think I probably should have been a bit more critical. Here, I think you probably have a bit more latitude to be more critical, but not to the point of me thinking you’re way off base.
Thanks for the response.
My viewpoint is also that there in NOTHING or NO ONE who can take Romney or Ryan off their message. They can hit point after point no matter how often the subject changes or how often they are interrupted. Watching the debates in the primaries make me realize that no one will be able to leave a glove on Romney. Especially not The Disaster.
Hell, half of FR could beat that fraud in a debate even if they were woken up in the dead of night.
I think the moderator was a bit intimidated by the whole thing and I am happy she let Crazy Joe show his ass.