{"id":1926,"date":"2012-10-13T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2012-10-13T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T16:31:48","slug":"the-veep-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-veep-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VEEP DEBATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

At lunch yesterday, my friend Ernie Traugh and I were discussing the Biden-Ryan debate when a couple of white-haired ladies came over to our restaurant table to join the discussion.\u00a0 Like Biden, they interrupted; unlike him, they weren\u2019t (expletive deleted) about it.\u00a0 Turns out they were life-long Democrats now well into their Social Security years, who saw Joe Biden as a protector of senior citizens, but not as an exemplar of good manners the night before.\u00a0 One mentioned that while she had been disappointed in the President\u2019s performance in the Denver debate, she thought Biden had gone too far in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

By one pundit\u2019s count, Biden had rudely interrupted Ryan some 82 times in 90 minutes. Eye-rolling and mocking laughter was his schtick throughout.\u00a0 As discussed last week, non-verbal communication is often the most powerful.\u00a0 If you act like a schmuck, you poison your own message.<\/p>\n

And then, there\u2019s the matter of the message you\u2019re sending.\u00a0 Biden blew it on Benghazi.\u00a0 Hear the voice of the intelligence community here: http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2012\/10\/12\/Intelligence-Community-Responds-to-Biden<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Or maybe the Vice President had been too busy preparing for his debate to read that day\u2019s Wall Street Journal. \u00a0\"WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n

The final debate looms, with promises that President Obama will be more aggressive.\u00a0 If he does it Biden\u2019s way, it will get interesting indeed.\u00a0 Meanwhile, back in Washington, one wonders if Hilary Clinton, of all people, is prepared to take a career-killing hit for the Obama team on the Benghazi matter\u2026or whether \u201cgun control\u201d issues and the whole \u201cFast and Furious\u201d matter will make it into the final debate.<\/p>\n

When those two nice Democrat ladies parted from my friend and I in the restaurant, we were laughing pleasantly with each other instead of at each other. Somehow, I don\u2019t think the next Presidential debate will come out so amicably.<\/p>\n

Your thoughts?<\/p>\n

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