Even Leftist Pundits were taken back by Biden’s performance
And for those who think my disdain for Joe’s juvenile
behavior is rank partisan perturbation, his own party’s cheerleaders derided
him for his derisive behavior. Check
it out:
NBC News’ David Gregory: “Biden’s smile is out of control.” (David Gregory, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
NBC News’ Mike O’Brien: “Biden really has to rein in his mannerisms.” (Mike O’Brien, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
CNN’s Piers Morgan: “Joe, seriously, STOP SMIRKING. This is serious stuff. Be Vice-Presidential.” (Piers Morgan, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
CNN’s Gloria Borger: “It was condescending at times, to Paul Ryan and I think I could’ve done with a lot less eye rolling and chuckling on the part of Joe Biden.” (CNN’s “Inside The Spin Room,” 10/11/12)
Bloomberg’s Josh Barro: “Biden smirk is … not good.” (Josh Barro, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
NBC News’ Betsy Fischer Martin: “Biden constant smiling is reminding me of Gore constant sighing in 2000.” (Betsy Fischer Martin, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza: “Ok. I have decided. I find the Biden smile slightly unsettling.” (Chris Cillizza, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
The Washington Post’s Aaron
Blake: “Biden making lots of noise/motion while Ryan is talking.”
(Aaron Blake, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
WPHT Philadelphia’s Chris Stigall: “Biden laughs like this is a game. Disgraceful.” (Chris Stigall, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
WPHT Philadelphia’s Chris Stigall: “Biden laughs like this is a game. Disgraceful.” (Chris Stigall, Twitter Feed, 10/11/12)
Biden’s performance in retrospect
For starters, try to imagine being Paul Ryan last Thursday: a young politician in the hot seat, the eyes of the world pressing upon him, as he tries to make careful and succinct statements in a most-intense environment, while all along, literally nearly every minute -- Biden interrupted Ryan 80-plus times -- his opponent smirks, scoffs, laughs uncontrollably, flaps his arms, and, generally, acts like a petulant child. I ask readers: Could you have endured what Paul Ryan handled? Given what he was up against, Paul Ryan's debate performance was truly remarkable. It was extraordinary. For poise alone, Ryan won hands down.
As for Joe Biden, his disrespectfulness was of historic proportions. Anyone but the blindest partisan Democrat concedes that the man was obnoxious. Only really, really angry liberals -- granted, there are many -- liked what Biden did.
Biden’s two biggest lies
Biden lied about Benghazi and about Obamacare’s mandate. Both of those lies will cost them in the
coming election.
Biden and Benghazi: The
October surprise?
Many people in
the diplomatic and intelligence communities say that the Obama administration,
behind the scenes, is in complete
disarray in the aftermath of al-Qaeda’s
attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens
and three other Americans. That tension burst into the open during last
Thursday’s debate, when Vice President Joe
Biden said the administration “did not know” that U.S. personnel in Libya had
made repeated requests for more security before the September 11 attack.
“We did not know they wanted more security there,” Biden claimed.
The
thrill going up many liberals leg last Wednesday may be fading as more comes
out about Libya and the lies the VP told
us.
Lies
our government told us
It
appears the truth is slowly coming out
and with them the realization that the
Obama Administration was lying through its teeth regarding Benghazi.
State
was sitting on money for security for consulate
Last week during
congressional testimony from State Department officials who were on the ground
in Libya, we heard over and over again that more security for the consulate in Benghazi was requested but denied.
We also heard repeatedly from Democrats, including Ranking Member of the House
Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings, claiming a lack of funding was at fault for less security in Benghazi during the time
of the attack on 9/11 that left four Americans dead. State Department officials
said funding had nothing to do with the situation and now, Chairman Darrell
Issa has revealed the State Department
is sitting on $2 billion for consulate security, but won’t spend it.
This
keeps getting worse and worse for the Democrats.
Obama surrogate dodges Benghazi Question
David Axelrod dodges the
question of how soon Obama met with his
National Security Council regarding Benghazi which begs the question; did
he ever meet with them regarding Benghazi?
When Obama loses CNN…
“CNN
has learned tonight that the White House
chose to leave out key intelligence from the attacks on Americans in Libya.
There are three things U.S. intelligence
has now confirmed to be true: the attackswere preplanned, terrorist attacks, and the work of Al-Qaeda- linked
groups. None of these three points were in talking points distributed to
congress and other government officials. U.S. intelligence knew of the al-Qaeda link within 24 hours of the
attacks. And the now infamous
comments by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice that the attacks were not preplanned and
not the work of terror came four days after that. This doesn’t add up.”
This is an excellent article that goes
far beyond the CNN quote.
Obama’s two new problems
The momentum of the Romney Campaignis only growing, and while Obama and his cohorts throw out Big Bird jokes,
the fact remains that we are witnessing
the collapse of Obama’s foreign policy right before our eyes. Big Bird
memes are not as distracting as the Obama Campaign had hoped, and the American
voters are continuing to ask inconvenient questions about the handling of
Benghazi-gate, what we plan to do to secure our embassies and why this was
allowed to happen in the first place.
Further plaguing the Obama
Administration is the poor economy that has affected all of us at one
point or another. The promises of, “It will get better,” are just not enough to
keep people hoping for change anymore. Even the “official” dropping of the
unemployment rate from 8.1% to 7.8% last month only bought Obama fifteen
minutes of goodwill.
Obama’s Breaking Point
Is it starting to look like November 1, 1980?
In the first
debate, Romney was not just far
better-informed and spoken, but far more likeable. Joe Biden’s frenzied
rudeness was the sort of debate performance that mesmerizes one by its very
boorishness, eliciting a weird reaction in the room like “Come over and check
this out: I can’t believe the Vice president of the United States is trumping
The Joker” (after all, the sick Joker is more entertaining that the sober and
judicious Batman) — but within hours leaves a bitter aftertaste in the mouth of
something along the lines of “Surely, we
could have done better than that rude buffoon?”
Washington Post shows Obama ahead 49%-46%
The posts opines on a number
of reasons Obama is ahead, but failed to mention the main one. Their
poll had +9 Democrats which give Obama a +3 margin. Using simple arithmetic, you can see that
means the independents are going for
Romney by a 60-40 margin.
The Cost of Regulation
Right now it costs small businesses 40 cents of everydollar to comply with government regulations. And this is before Obamacare. This is
also the reason big companies don’t mind regulation because it gives them a
competitive advantage over small companies.
Is Elizabeth Warren paying her fair share?
Elizabeth Warren has built her progressive rock star image and her campaign by attacking the wealthy factory owners
and others who supposedly do not pay
their “fair share” and take advantage of loopholes to live off of
infrastructure paid for by others.
Yet Warren
appears to be one of those people who takes advantage.
Warren falsely and without any legitimate
legal basis claimed to be Cherokee
for employment purposes. Warren
also chintzed by failing to register for the Massachusetts Bar
despite an active practice of law in Cambridge since the mid-1990s, thereby
evading Bar registration dues. Howie Carr has a great column today about
Warren’s class warfare phoniness.
Add another
example to the long list: Warren
obtained fee waivers from at least 50 federal bankruptcy courts so
she would not have to pay for access to the federal PACER system, even in
years when she had a high 6-figure income and an 8-figure net worth.
The more you know about Ms.
Warren, the more you like Scott Brown.
2012 election helps Postal Service
It seems all that annoying junk election mail you are getting is a life saver for the postal service.
NHS: A preview of
Obamacare?
Older
patients must not be denied NHS operations on the grounds of their age,
a report by surgeons says.
It provides damning evidence of
variations in surgical care based on patients' ages, with the chances of being
operated on peaking in middle age and plummeting for those in their 60s, 70s
and 80s.
Older heart attack victims,
breast cancer patients and those needing new hips and knees are missing out on
treatment routinely offered to younger patients even though they could benefit,
it says.
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