{"id":892,"date":"2012-10-13T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/13\/more-from-the-biden-ryan-joust"},"modified":"2012-10-13T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T12:36:00","slug":"more-from-the-biden-ryan-joust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"More from the Biden-Ryan joust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have to agree with Jim Messina, campaign manager for President Obama re-election team: If the other side\u2019s major gripe is about your guy\u2019s facial expressions and manners, then you know you won a debate on the issues.<\/p>\n

In my view \u2013 and you can take it for whatever it\u2019s worth \u2013 Vice President Joe Biden cleaned Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan\u2019s clock the other night in their only debate. Did I like Biden\u2019s constant snickering and occasional guffaws? Not really. But that\u2019s not how you should measure these events. Yes, the administration has some explaining to do regarding the tragic security lapse at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where four diplomats died recently in an attack on the compound. But on issue after issue, the vice president was in command and on the attack.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the next debate, set for Tuesday in Long Island, N.Y., between President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

Yes, Biden teed it up for the president. Now it\u2019s up to Obama \u2013 if you\u2019ll pardon the mixed metaphor \u2013 to hit it out of the park. The pressure is going to be immense on the president to follow up on the vice president\u2019s fire-and-brimstone performance.<\/p>\n

And for Romney? He\u2019s read all the media accounts along with the rest of us. He\u2019ll have to be ready to counter whatever the president throws at him. I\u2019m guessing he\u2019ll be prepared too.<\/p>\n

Quick historical note \u2026<\/p>\n

The 1960 televised debates between Sen. John Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon started out with a relative whimper, with Kennedy \u201cwinning\u201d on style points \u2013 not to mention superior makeup. The subsequent encounters got testier. Few of us talk these days about the follow-up contests between these guys. They both were aggressive and in each other\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n

I think history is going to repeat itself as we head down the stretch.<\/p>\n\n

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I have to agree with Jim Messina, campaign manager for President Obama re-election team: If the other side\u2019s major gripe is about your guy\u2019s facial expressions and manners, then you know you won a debate on the issues. In my view \u2013 and you can take it for whatever it\u2019s worth \u2013 Vice President Joe … Continue reading More from the Biden-Ryan joust<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}