and complaining about that does not change that. but the other person who was pumped last night and whose performance was both winning and, therefore, grating to the side who came out the worst last night, was the moderator martha raddatz. she gave both candidates almost exactly equal time. but martha raddatz who i officially would now support for president, herself, martha raddatz kept it moving and stopped these guys from diving down talking points rabbit holes. with all due respect, that s a bunch of malarky. and why is that so? because not a single thing he said is accurate. first of all be specific. wasn t this a massive intelligence failure? was that really appropriate right in the middle of the crisis? you have refused, and, again, to offer specifics on how you pay for that 20% across the board tax cut. do you actually have the specifics, or are you still working on it and that s why you won t tell voters? and when he wouldn t give her
it really was the shot in the arm the democrats and the progressives were hoping for. after watching mitt romney get away with lie after lie last week, the vice president wasn t putting up with it from a guy who s number two on the republican ticket. when we equivocate on our values, when we show that we re cutting our own defense, it makes us more weak. it projects weakness. when we look weak, our adversaries are much more wig to test us, more brazen in their attacks. with all due respect, that s a bunch of malarky. why is that so? not a single thing he said is accurate. biden never took his foot off the gas. in one brief sentence, the vice president summed up the empty rhetoric of the romney campaign. stop talking about how you care about people. show me something. show me a policy. show me a policy where you take responsibility. many obama supporters were disappointed the president didn t hold mitt romney
had choices to make about these things that he says he has these beliefs about. this was the beginning of last night s debate on the topic of libya. when we look weak our adversaries are much more willing to test us, more brazen in attacks with all due respect, that s a bunch of malarky. why is that so? not a single thing he said is accurate. be specific. i will be very specific. number one, this lecture on embassy security. the congressman here cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for. that is true. paul ryan s house republican caucus where he is the budget guy proposed slashing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for embassy security last year. paul ryan is saying this embassy security has been under-resourced. paul ryan proposes cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from embassy security. that little perfect instance of hypocrisy as well as the
i think for some folks at home it probably came across a little testy. yeah, no. nice try. i mean, maybe mitt romney was testy, at the presidential debate, and maybe joe biden did laugh in paul ryan s face all night at the vice presidential debate. but that is in part because these guys, mitt romney and joe biden, were pumped and they were pumped because they were obviously winning their debates. and complaining about that does not change that. but the other person who was pumped last night and whose performance was both winning and, therefore, grating to the side who came out the worst last night, was the mod rate erator raddatz. she gave both candidates almost exactly equal time. but martha raddatz who i officially would now support for president, herself, martha raddatz kept it moving and stopped these guys from diving down talking points rabbit holes. with all due respect, that s a bunch of malarky. and why is that so? because not a single thing he said is accurate. first
devastating part of the debate last night, the more important thing is that moment, itself, fits a pattern. it s about this problem with paul ryan s brand which i think earned him the vice presidential nomination. paul ryan s brand as a serious principled policy guy. the more attention paul ryan s record gets the less that brand for him makes sense to an almost ridiculous degree now. some of these things got called out last night directly by joe biden in front of that giant tv audience. but not all of them got called out. i mean, say it this way. the first one happened right away at the top of the debate, where you could see this huge distance in what paul ryan says he believes, and how he has behaved when he s had choices to make about these things that he says he has these beliefs about. this was the beginning of last night s debate on the topic of libya. when we look weak our adversaries are much more willing to test us, more brazen in attacks and our allies are less willing