Talk on the Sunday news shows moved from President Obama’s weak performance at last week’s debate to the vice presidential debate coming up this Thursday from Danville, Ky.
“I think most people understand that Joe Biden has been debating for a long time, I mean, since the early 1900s he has been debating,” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus quipped on CNN’s State of the Union.
“However, Paul is a smart guy. He has committed his life to understanding the problems of our economy, presenting a plan for the American people, so I think that Paul is going to do – he’s going to do a great job, but I also think it’s very important for people to understand, and I think people realize that Joe Biden is a gifted or orator,” Priebus said. “He is very good at rhetoric, and I think is he very relatable. So I think they are very two different people.”
“I think he is taking it very seriously,” he said of Mitt Romney’s No. 2, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). “He’s prepared.”
Philadelphia mayor — and Joe Biden’s pal — Michael Nutter said he hopes Priebus “does advise Mr. Ryan, first and foremost to just tell the truth, unlike what we heard at the Republican convention.”
“I think the big thing with Vice President Biden is that he speaks from his heart; he’s an earthy guy,” Nutter said.
“I think when people talk about last week, the expectations for President Obama, of course, are always exceedingly high and it was relatively easy for Mr. Romney, who had an 11th hour conversion,” he added. “We recall that he is the Etch-A-Sketch guy, has transformed himself and, quite frankly, we always have to wonder which Mitt is going to show up.”
“And so, if you just lay out lie after lie after lie about your own plan, as well as what the president has been talking about, of course you can look good. Vice President Biden will do very, very well. He knows what’s been going on. He’s in touch with the American public and I’m just hopeful that Mr. Ryan will tell the truth, whether it’s about Medicare and that it’s a voucher program.”
Early 1900′s ?
I would say much before that, judging from his neanderthal style…
– last name exhausts the subject.
Nutter sounds like he’s memorized the Democrat Party’s talking points. The Dems may also be setting the ground for a Biden loss at the debates – just claim Ryan lied, as they are claiming about Romney. Romney, of course, was spot-on when he said O just picks losers – after all, he picked Biden.
By the way, have Nutter’s school teachers finished beating up on that kid who wore the Romney shirt, or does she still need some more “educating”?
And about that “lying” thing–it is apparent that when Barack Obama can’t win in a fair fight because of his own shortcomings, he tries to find a way to destroy your character so he can still win. Not exactly the Corinthian spirit.
You know how I know Mitt Romney may be one of the cleanest politicians there ever was? Because if Mitt had ever done anything he shouldn’t have, Chicago would have released it already. There’s just nothing there for them to release or leak. So they invent this “lying” business out of whole cloth.
Because they don’t have a lot else.
Now, as a thought experiment, let’s say Mitt *was* lying last week during the debate. Ol’ Barry never called him on it. Which means one of two things–
1. Romney wasn’t actually lying, which is probably the case.
2. Barack Obama doesn’t know enough about much of anything to tell when Romney was lying. Not exactly the way to prove that the appelation “lazy” is undeserved…
As an add-on–Joe has been debating since the 1900s, and doing it without plagiarizing since 1987.
Biden is an “earthy” guy? There’s an old farmer’s expression about “making earth”. Any animal can do it – and does, several times a day. Bulls, especially.