Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan
*The debate between the two Vice Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan for the upcoming general election on Nov. 6 is now history.
UPDATE …
It’s now the morning after and the consensus appears to be – especially among Democrats and supporters – that Vice President Joe Biden bested Paul Ryan in the head to head political matchup.
Biden did everything President Obama didn’t do in his match up with challenger Mitt Romey. Even the president liked what he saw.
“I’m going to make a special point of saying that I thought Joe Biden was terrific tonight,” President Obama told reporters after stepping off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, on his way back to the White House after a day of campaigning in Florida.
Overall, as CNN reports, it was a combative debate Thursday evening between Vice President Biden and Republican challenger Ryan came down to the issue of trust.
The running mates to President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney in next month’s presidential election each challenged the other’s facts and claims in the 90-minute nationally televised debate that was their only showdown of the campaign.
Ryan repeatedly criticized the Obama administration as taking the nation in the wrong direction by hindering economic recovery and weakening its influence around the world.
“We’re heading in the wrong direction,” Ryan said of the administration’s economic polices. “This is not what a real recovery looks like.”
He also repeated several times, in reference to the recent terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya and other anti-American protests, that “what we are watching on our TV screens is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy.”
Biden called several of Ryan’s remarks “malarkey” and challenged Americans to trust their common sense when judging proposals by the Republican challengers.
The tax and entitlement reforms proposed by Romney and Ryan would harm the middle class and favor the wealthy, Biden said in seeking to depict Republicans as protectors of the privileged.
“You think these guys are going to go out there and cut those loopholes?” Biden asked about unspecified moves by Romney and Ryan to balance tax cuts they promise.
On the topic of reforming the Medicare program for senior citizens, which Romney and Ryan seek to partially privatize, Biden referred to a Ryan proposal to provide partial government payment for seniors in the future to buy private health care.
“Folks, use your common sense. Who do you trust on this?” Biden said, saying Ryan’s plan would increase Medicare costs to recipients by $6,000 a year. Ryan disputed the claim, which was based on a proposal that he has since altered.
The debate before the November 6 election pitted Biden, 69, and his almost four decades of experience in national politics against the 42-year-old Ryan, a 14-year congressional veteran who rose to the chairmanship of the powerful House Budget Committee.
Despite Biden’s more extensive experience, CNN polling showed 55% of respondents expected Ryan to win the debate, and both campaigns tried to downplay expectations for their candidate ahead of time.
Privately, senior Democrats told CNN they believed a strong showing by Biden could help the Democratic ticket, but wouldn’t be enough to erase problems created by Obama’s lackluster performance at last week’s first of three presidential debates.
Obama and Romney will square off again on October 16 in New York and October 22 in Florida.
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Watch highlights from Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate:
I couldn’t stand that smug look Ryan had on his face the whole time. Glad Biden slapped him in the dirt!
Co-sign. That arrogant arched-eyebrow look Ryan wears is sooo irritating. He deserved the azz-whooiping he got last night. No, it was not a draw–I can’t believe anyone who saw it could think it was–it was a good old-fashioned schooling. Ryan got schooled. I’m not even a big Biden fan, but I enjoyed seeng him do his thing last night.
Maybe its me. But do any of you get the feeling that Mr Bailey owner of this blog is a conservative? Who really watches CNN anymore these days. They didn’t see what we saw!
i think u r right. anyone with half a brain could see that the elder statesman took out a good ole fashion can of delaware kick azz to that eddie the munster looking plutocrat. straight up cold cocked him with fact after fact. that fool ryan didnt have anymore water in his cup to drink. i thought he was going to eat the cup.
LOL! Huey so true!
Huey you ALWAYS make me laugh!!….. Vice President Biden came well prepared, Ryan certainly was no match for the VP.
***OBAMA 2012***
I agree VP Biden was very good last night he knew his stuff and he defended the Obama policies, he did not shy away from ” I like to flex my muscle Ryan” he took him on. Take heed Pres Obama!!
wonder when them to right-leaning, negrodian, obama-hating, so-called black, impersonators, “musbwhiteytoberightey” and “reds-to-white-to-b-right” gonna chime in this forum with their dumb azz spin cycle’s?
Biden smiled like a shark and mauled that evil Eddie Munster!!!!!!
I loved when Biden said “if he was such a good governor in MA…why isn’t he contesting there?” I get the feeling Romney is despised in MA. I’m glad Biden mentioned Romney didn’t want to bail out GM after Ryan said “‘he’s a car man”…yeah right!
The match was positive for both.
A draw.
I don’t see how someone calling you out for being the ultimate hypocrite–”you asked for stimulus money while railing against the stimulus”–could be a positive for anyone. It was a CLEAR victory for Biden. Biden beat him worse than Romney beat Obama imo.
Draw my azz you fucn putz. You know dayum welltthat political neophyte got his ballz handed to him in a cup of fucn water. I knew yo bytch azz would come in here with that right wing zealot bullshyt. Get yo dumb azz prepared for another 4 years of black leadership.
And hopefully 8 mo aftet that when michelle runs and wins.
From the person who often talked about how you would kick my ass (a total stranger) nothing about the drivel you wrote surprises me.
I’ve told you before, you are intellectually inferior to me. Which explains why most of your responses are laden with personal attacks and plenty of cursing…rarely ever dealing w/the substance of nething I said. So it’s no wonder you would think my opinion that it was a draw is right-wing zealot bs. You don’t have the intellectual capacity to debate me in any other way.
Huey my duuuuuude!??, “putz”!?, did you say…”PUTZ”!!??? GTFOH!!! SMHLMBAO!!
“…you are intellectually inferior to me…”
Indeed, it ‘must be the herbs’ coupled with several hallucinogenics that have you believing this crap. Get out your mama’s basement and face reality for a change!!!!!!
Mustyherbs does strike me as the type that lives in his mama’s basement getting high all day and sitting at the computer typing nonsense.
And how hypocritical of ANY of these Repub. azz kissers to even “imply” that JB was “rude”. WTF was all this “sensitivity” in the last debate!? Oh…the shyt is ok, when “Mit’s” doung it!? Puleeeeeze GTFOH! . And ALL we woukdda hearrrrrrrrd today is how “brilliant” PR was, if “HE” had done what JB did to him! So…just man the fk up Repubs & except the azzwhoopin, just like Obie did. The boy (PR) liiiiiied & got called ‘on it, tiiiiiime & tiiiiime again by a “I don’t give a fk” kinda dude in JB! And any “poll” that says otherwise?, is just telling on its self, leaning toward who they are obviously “funded by”! Simply put….the Repubs are a bunch of weak lying racist hypocrites, that got they azz WHOOPED last night, PERIOD!!!!
CNN polling showed 55% of respondents expected Ryan to win the debate.
I guess this tell you who watches CNN.
Watch out Fox, you got a strong competitor.