2seaoat wrote:I think Romney and Biden with their debate techniques are turning the presidential debate into the Jerry Springer show. The moderators must stop the debate and take control of bad behavior from participants. Joe Biden was being Joe Biden, but it was disrespectful and inappropriate. He clearly won the debate, just as Romney clearly won the debate, but I personally left the debate with much more respect for Ryan, as I did for President Obama when they both remained presidential. I think what I came away with is that Ryan probably is a little green, but he performed cool in light of the repeated interruptions.
The way this presidential debate series is evolving....we will need two three hundred pound bouncers on stage, and we will start bringing girlfriends on stage and ask who is the daddy.
As always, agree or disagree, Charles Krauthammer nailed the result of the debate.
Immediately after the vice presidential debate on Thursday night, Fox News political analyst Charles Krauthammer skewered Vice President Joe Biden for being “disrespectful” to Republican Paul Ryan throughout the night with his incessant smirking and interrupting.
Krauthammer was able to sum up the debate with one simple statement:
“If you read the transcript, I think it’s dead even. If you heard it on radio, Biden won. If you watched it on television, he lost.”
“In the transcript, if you just look at the raw arguments, I think it was even because each side had points to make, it made them. I think on balance, not one side was stronger than the other,” Krauthammer explained.
If you heard it on radio, he said Biden would have sounded “aggressive, forceful – he was sort of on the attack all the time.“ He said Ryan reacted with ”excessive deference” and allowed himself to be cut off.
On Biden’s performance on television, Krauthammer said the vice president was “so disrespectful.”
“It was sort of almost unprecedented and hugely condescending. I think that undid the force of his arguments,” he added.http://www.theblaze.com/stories/krauthammer-nails-the-outcome-of-the-vp-debate-in-one-simple-statement/