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Looks like jar jar biden.
Opiwan Donoshit.
Darth Idious
I know the common strategy is to “downplay” ones performance before the debate so that a) If you do poorly you don’t look as bad and b) If you do you look that much better. But I think when they introduce Paul Ryan this for next week’s debate he should have some theme music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk
I gotta go to the store. There is no way I have enough popcorn.
Izzat Plugs, UnPlugged?
Imagine having Joe Biden as your backup plan.
Well. If that was “presidential,” I can hardly wait for Biden to act “vice-presidential” in his debate.
However, this one isn’t in the bag yet. Biden is smarter, or at least cannier, than Captain Zero,* and he doesn’t have to bear the burden of likability that the Prez supposedly has to. If he is actually studying Ryan’s actual positions on things (unlike Zero), then he could at least have something to say. Hard to think that’s going to carry the day though.
This debate is likely to be a case of a fresh young pitt bull versus and aging golden retriever. (doesn’t matter how likable the retriever is, the fur will fly) Like MikeG, I’m getting extra popcorn. Beer too.
* Yes, I know I actually said that. Biden’s problem is that his mouth gets in the way of pretty much everything he tries to say, and that in itself is likely to be enough to lose him the debate.
What I’m hoping for out of the VP debate, besides the obvious Biden trouncing and Ryan clearly stating to a huge public the actual RR position on things, is this:
A 60 second soundbite Repubs can run everywhere with the caption:
“A single heartbeat from the Presidency. Which do you choose?”
Ryan’s biggest challenge on Thursday will be avoiding the impression that he’s too confident or snarky/sarcastic.
Ryan’sPLUG`s biggest challenge on Thursday will be avoiding the impression that he’s too confident or snarky/sarcastic.Sorry Patrick buddy, but I couldn`t resist. PLUGS, in my observation thru heavy lenses, is the academy award holder of snark and sarc BUT only if the 3rd *s* is added; STOOPID!!!
His mouth is safety-wired to the transmit position, but there are 2 potential maintenance problems. Either the insulation on the wire from his brane to his mouth is frayed causing electrical shorts–or– his brane malfunctions from water and hair oil leaking thru the plug holes on top of his brane housing box!
There ain`t enough broadband to list the proofs that I have seen, but a recent one might suffice; Recall Plugs fondling a bike wench in a biker`s watering hole? Had Plugs not been the VP w armed Secret Service agents all around, can you doubt that he was a red cunt hair away from being bloody molecules on the boots and knuckles of the 2 big male bikers eye-fucking him w *doom* radiating from their eyeballs??
So I FIFY……[---an beg forgiveness---]
Darth Bater.
This has been on my mind since I saw the news about Obama’s debate death spiral. If this is how Obama did, and he’s the SMART one, what’s going to happen when Gilligan takes over? It’s as if the Rock crawled away from a tough round with Steve Austin, stuck his hand through the ropes, and tagged Burgess Meredith.
From the article:
Kind’a hard to do when your foot’s continuously in your mouth, innit?
A 60 second soundbite Repubs can run everywhere with the caption:
“A single heartbeat from the Presidency. Which do you choose?”
That would be PERFECT!
That they are going to rely on PLUGS…
I am already laughing my ass off!
This is gonna be rich!
Doug 13: Kind’a hard to do when your foot’s continuously in your mouth, innit? such a nice turn of phrase.
PatrickP (9) + ColJ (10): astonishingly, both are correct.
However, I would submit that one of Ryan’s challenges will be projecting a firm clarity while avoiding the appearance of butt-raping and sausage grinding a nice old guy who is too senile to know that his foot’s in his mouth, and that there’s a virtual biker babe on his lap.
(Aside: I wonder if those biker guys are going to tune in for the virtual satisfaction of seeing Ryan do to Plugs virtually what they weren’t allowed to do physically.)
^^ MiT 14: the irony, and it is huge, is that Slow Joe would have made a better president than Captain Zero (though only by comparison, of course).
Of course Joe would have also provided endless material for late night comics, who would no longer have to write their own stuff.
I imagine that most of us have see this Powerline article, which is a modestly interesting read:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/romneys-improved-standing.php
However, in reading it, an ancillary though struck me about the size of the audience, which the article estimates as being around 70 million, a number that has not been approached since the 1980 Reagan – Carter debates (80.6 million viewers).
Here is my thought: masses of people don’t tune in to watch an incumbent with whom they are largely satisfied swat down some upstart challenger.
No matter what they tell pollsters (assuming they are even asked), they only do that when they are deeply dissatisfied with the present course, see the stakes are high, and are thinking about change.
Biden actually appears to be a really, *really* unpleasant person. Every time he thinks the camera is off him he’s trying to bully or intimidate someone.
Not hugely surprising for someone with an unearned image of power, the “folksy idiot” thing is just his stage act… act least the folsky part.
People call him affable but I can’t think of a less appropriate word other than “empathetic” for him. He’s always struck me as someone who got into power by accident and doesn’t know it, and stays there because nobody want to tell him he has to go and deal with the temper tantrum.
^ Merovign has a point.
I’ll be pleased when the pitt bull Ryan tears that pseudo-retriever to shreds.
On a related note, Biden may have set a record as the least generous politician in modern times in terms of charitable giving, and he’s the first Vice-President in history to charge the Secret Service rent for protecting him.
Not even going to help if Biden debated Obama, which might only render (blank) Stare Wars.
Dems hoped Hope ‘n’ Change™ would fix everything, too….
Dopeywan Asmokit.
I’ve been hearing bits on the radio where someone or other is saying that we shouldn’t expect too much from Ryan in the VP debate, on account of because Biden is such a great orator, a real “man of the peeps”.
Here’s a quote: “He’s probably one of the most experienced debaters in American politics right now.”
Past history shows that he has a real foot-sized mouth.
He’s going to keep Jay Leno &c in business for weeks.