Thursday's VP debate

myp · Oct 10, 2012

Any predictions, comments, etc. on the VP debate this Thursday?

Unfortunately I will be busy studying that night, but I think it will be an entertaining one. Will be interesting to see how Ryan answers questions about his budget plan.

David · Oct 10, 2012

Bidan will ramble like an idiot and Ryan will offer intelligent sounding nonsense (such as promising to balance the budget and doubling military spending in the same breath).

clax · Oct 10, 2012

David said:
Bidan will ramble like an idiot and Ryan will offer intelligent sounding nonsense (such as promising to balance the budget and doubling military spending in the same breath).

Yup, I concur

a777pilot · Oct 10, 2012

It's the VP's. Who cares?

myp · Oct 10, 2012

a777pilot said:
It's the VP's. Who cares?

Haha. It can affect the election and with Ryan it will be interesting to see him on that stage as a potential future Presidential candidate too.

clax · Oct 10, 2012

myp said:
Haha. It can affect the election and with Ryan it will be interesting to see him on that stage as a potential future Presidential candidate too.

The two debates I really enjoy are the republican primaries and the VPs. I always wish the candidates with no hope win the nomination. They always seem to be the most realistic, not promising streets paved with gold. But I guess the people want unreasonable politics

ThirdTerm · Oct 12, 2012

It was a foreign policy debate and foreign policy questions dominated the first 30 minutes and Biden won that part as a sitting vice-president influential in setting the Obama administration's foreign policy agenda but Ryan showed his strength on economic issues as expected and he ended up beating Biden narrowly by 4% according to a CNN poll and the Obama camp seems to be happy with Biden's performance last night because it was nearly a tie.

clax · Oct 12, 2012

ThirdTerm said:
It was a foreign policy debate and foreign policy questions dominated the first 30 minutes and Biden won that part as a sitting vice-president influential in setting the Obama administration's foreign policy agenda but Ryan showed his strength on economic issues as expected and he ended up beating Biden narrowly by 4% according to a CNN poll and the Obama camp seems to be happy with Biden's performance last night because it was nearly a tie.

I don't know how they call it a debate. It seemed like they kept calling each other liars,
I was ready to hear why it was a lie but they never said. It was frustrating. Calling each other liar is not a debate.

David · Oct 12, 2012

clax said:
I don't know how they call it a debate. It seemed like they kept calling each other liars,
I was ready to hear why it was a lie but they never said. It was frustrating. Calling each other liar is not a debate.

What did I say was going to happen? 2 idiots sou ding like idiots, shocker!

clax · Oct 12, 2012

David said:
What did I say was going to happen? 2 idiots sou ding like idiots, shocker!

They should call it the VP argument, calling it a debate is a mockery of debate.:smug:

Dirk · Oct 15, 2012

The German news mentioned it briefly and said that it was aggressive but little else.

Relatedly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTmBjk-M0c

Thursday's VP debate

Similar threads