If there’s one thing both sides agree on after last night’s vice presidential debate it’s that Joe Biden’s antics were distracting and at times, entirely inappropriate. One seasoned news reporter was appalled and visibly shocked on air as he recalled the “disrespectful” behavior displayed by the vice president of the United States.
A stunned-looking Chris Wallace of Fox News declared Vice President Joe Biden’s debate performance “unprecedented” and his attitude towards Republican opponent Paul Ryan “openly contemptuous.”
“I think I have watched almost every presidential and vice presidential debate since the first four Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960, and thinking back over the last few minutes, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan tonight,” Wallace said.
“You can talk about the smirks, the smiles, the head-shaking, the mugging, — it was openly contemptuous and disrespectful. And it wasn’t just the facial gestures. It was also the words. In the course of the night, he dismissed various arguments by Ryan’s as ‘malarkey,’ ‘bunch of stuff,’ ‘I don’t know what these guys are talking about,’ ‘loose talk,’ and ‘bluster.’
Wallace was referring to Biden’s frequent interjections, and it was determined that the Vice President interrupted Ryan a total of 82 times, according to RNC chairman Reince Priebus.
“It was really quite an extraordinary, and I have to say, from my experience, unprecedented performance in a presidential or vice-presidential debate by one of the participants,” Wallace said.
Biden’s demeanor is hardly surprising. Liberals rely on sarcasm and laugh cues directed at other liberals to command debates. Ridicule, as Saul Alinksky wrote, is man’s most potent weapon, and the ridiculed have to appeal to those who mock them for relief. To his credit, Ryan remained calm and held his ground. His frequent descents into wonkery might have bored voters, but Biden’s bluster repulsed them.
Wallace’s comments appear to reflect voters’ initial reactions: Pew Research polled an overall unfavorable rating of 51 percent and, tellingly, a 52 percent unfavorable rating among independents. For potential voters beginning to tune in, the Obama administration appears to be represented by a second-rate, sulky professor and a deranged old man.
If Obama mimics Biden in the next debate, Romney may very well steamroll him yet again.
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I was totally embarrassed and horrified by this decorum of a sitting vice-president. The world must think our political process is a total joke. I was on the fence about who to vote for, but that certainly swayed me to the Romney camp! RW
Shame on you Mr. Biden, I hope that your actions, which were both rude and very disrespectful, are not taught to our younger generation. I have never listened to any other debate as distasteful as you Mr. Biden made it last nite. Again, Shame on you !!!
What do you expect from a demonrat? They are thugs and should be put away from decent people.
Biden made a complete fool of himself and I do not use that word lightly. He is a reed in the wind and let it be known he will go to the highest bidder. He agreed life begins at conception and had been a practicing Catholic all his life but he did not stand up for this belief. This says to me the man is not right with God and may have gone to the muslim side with obama. The Bible tells us to discern a man by his actions and not what comes from his mouth. Ryan on the other hand let it be known he lived his beliefs and would stand firm. We can’t trust any man that says one thing and does another like Biden and obama. God Bless America.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…liberals are rude, disrespectful, loud, obnoxious, and oh yes, IGNORANT.