Charles Pierce: The Real Paul Ryan Is Bad for America

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13927-the-real-paul-ryan-is-bad-for-america

"For the second time in as many presidential elections, Joseph Biden got to debate a young, attractive Republican candidate who was demonstrably less qualified to to be president than I am to be chairman of the World Bank. Joseph Biden is a very lucky man. The Great Political Matchmaker in the Sky keeps handing him people who are trying - and failing - to fight above their weight class, and he keeps blowing through what can now legitimately be called the Bum of the Quadrennium Club.

There is a deeply held Beltway myth of Paul Ryan, Man of Big Ideas, and it dies hard. But, if there is a just god in the universe, on Thursday night, it died a bloody death, was hurled into a pit, doused with quicklime, buried without ceremony, and the ground above it salted and strewn with garlic so that it never rises again. On foreign policy, Ryan occasionally rose, gasping, to the level of obvious neophyte. (He was more lost in Afghanistan than the Russian army ever was.) On domestic policy, his alleged wheelhouse, he was vague, untruthful, and he walked right into a haymaker he should have seen coming from a mile off, when he started bloviating about Biden's role in the "failed" stimulus program, only to have Biden slap him around with Ryan's own requests for stimulus money for his home district back in Wisconsin. He also made it quite clear that a Romney-Ryan White House will do everything it can to eliminate a woman's right to choose. This should make for some fine television commercials over the next few weeks..."

You can look in a thousand places and find conflicting OPINIONS. Here is one such case:
Comments by By Bob Uda, PhD, CM, CHSP, ILO
I summarize Joe Biden’s debate as follows:
• He smirked like a Cheshire cat whenever he wanted to denigrate Paul Ryan and make what he was saying appear wrong, naïve, or misguided.
• He interrupted Paul Ryan continuously throughout the debate.
• He angrily spoke to the moderator raising his voice to push his thoughts.
• In my opinion, he did not win this debate.
I summarize Paul Ryan’s debate as follows:
• He knew his facts and materials.
• He did not smirk towards the Vice President.
• He seriously answered the questions posed to him.
• In my opinion, he did not lose this debate.
I summarize the moderator as follows:
• She appeared to be biased and partisan in favor of Joe Biden.
• She was argumentative with Paul Ryan.
• In my opinion, she did a poor job in moderating the debate fairly.
• Under the circumstances, the debate was a draw.

nochain wrote:You can look in a thousand places and find conflicting OPINIONS. Here is one such case:
Comments by By Bob Uda, PhD, CM, CHSP, ILO
I summarize Joe Biden’s debate as follows:
• He smirked like a Cheshire cat whenever he wanted to denigrate Paul Ryan and make what he was saying appear wrong, naïve, or misguided.
• He interrupted Paul Ryan continuously throughout the debate.
• He angrily spoke to the moderator raising his voice to push his thoughts.
• In my opinion, he did not win this debate.
I summarize Paul Ryan’s debate as follows:
• He knew his facts and materials.
• He did not smirk towards the Vice President.
• He seriously answered the questions posed to him.
• In my opinion, he did not lose this debate.
I summarize the moderator as follows:
• She appeared to be biased and partisan in favor of Joe Biden.
• She was argumentative with Paul Ryan.
• In my opinion, she did a poor job in moderating the debate fairly.
• Under the circumstances, the debate was a draw.

Except that factcheck has determined Ryan told quite a few lies.