They interrupted and talked over each other, they were disrespectful while the other person was talking and there were some directly rude remarks. It was quite a change from last week's rather mellow debate. Last week focused strongly on policy and this week was a much more aggressive debate with very direct attacks on both candidate's plans.
Both men were quite involved and passionate in the debate... Ryan attacked Obama's foreign policy, calling it weak in response to the recent terror attack. Biden went after Romney about the 47 percent comment. Ryan had a response all ready for Biden's comment, quite a snarky response in my opinion "As the vice president very well knows ... sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way." Biden had a snarky response all ready as well "But I always say what I mean, and so does Romney." There was much heated debate about the Libya strike, which was Martha Raddatz's opening question.
The VP debate ended up being quite an important item. Biden was there to both re-grasp Obama's momentum and stop Ryan from increasing Romney's recent increase in the polls. Ryan was there to reinforce Romney's plans. There is obviously a lot of opinions that are made from tonights debate....
Was the men's rudeness off-putting? How valuable was the policy information they talked about? Did Biden make up for Obama's passiveness last week? How much will this debate change the current polls?
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I disagree. I understand that this was a much more heated debate than the previous Presidential Debate, but of all things to pick up on, the verbal confrontation was not necessarily off putting. It may not have been the most polite debate, but I was quite happy with the way Biden finally called out Ryan and Romney on their campaign lies. At least this way the less educated public would know that the math really DOESN'T work out. Ryan was repeatedly called out on his vagueness by both the moderator and Biden, and Biden handled some very rude comments by Ryan fairly well. Though it may not have been the nicest debate, policy-wise, a lot was revealed, and I think that's the most important part.
The debate for me was generally a joke. I couldn't listen to either side without having a little chuckle. However, that might just be a Bruce thing, considering I think both candidates are some sort of a joke. However, I do feel that Biden did win the debate in the fact that Biden was supposed to lose hard. There was too much hype that Paul Ryan would be the "best debater ever". To me Paul Ryan was very mediocre at best. Biden also performed mediocre, but he went against the idea of Ryan being the heavy favorite. I feel like this debate might help gain some momentum back for Obama's Ticket after the poor showing by Obama last week.
P.S. One thing that still confuses me is the sucking up to small businesses. I'm pretty sure most people work for big business.
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