This is a good article:
Stop Lowering Expectations for Biden’s Debate Performance
I know it’s fun to point out all of the stupid, meandering, and incoherent ramblings Biden exhibits on a nearly daily basis, but could we please stop playing into this narrative that President Trump is going to clean his clock at the presidential debates later this month?
Why are we falling for this trap
Presidential debates are never about which candidate actually wins on facts or debating skills. In fact, they are almost always about how a given candidate compares to the expectations set up for them by the mainstream media or by conventional wisdom.
Think about this for a moment... Joe Biden’s entire career has been a political debate. In reality, it’s been his only real job.
Biden’s last one-on-one debate was just six months ago against Bernie Sanders. He killed it. With all eyes on him and his supposed “diminished capacity,” he stood toe-to-toe with the Vermont socialist and silenced him. He basically wrapped up the entire Democratic nomination with that one debate performance... and that was only six months ago.
Biden has been nothing but a political hack. And one thing political hacks know how to do is BS their way through a debate.
Say it with me: Biden should not only do well at the debate, but he should also defeat President Trump, easily. We should expect nothing less and we should be saying nothing else until the debates are completed.
If he fails miserably, let him fail miserably within the context of exactly who he is: A professional, life-long politician with decades of experience debating politics and policy at the highest levels of the national discourse. His performance should be measured against that.
and...it was a long time ago....but let’s be honest.
he beat the living hell out of paul ryan.
and that was when we all didn’t hate paul ryan.