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A Battle of Intellects -- and Temperaments

Col Bat Guano Wrote: Oct 12, 2012 12:58 AM

If snark is the metric of debate performance then yes Bite-me won. If displaying a professional, calm demeanor was the metric then he lost. The fetching Mrs. Guano (not her real name) remarked that Slo Joe reminded her of John McCain's snarky, grumpy old fart performance against 0bama 4 years ago. That performance lost McCain her vote in '08. Biden's performance tonight may have lost 0bama her vote next month. Her words about 0bama/Biden "Niether of them seem very .... well ... Presidential." As Emerill would say "Bam!"

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A Battle of Intellects -- and Temperaments

Everyone already knew Paul Ryan has a first-class intellect. Tonight, he proved that he has a first-class temperament, too. That's what was required to tolerate the histrionics trotted out by Joe Biden. Granted, everyone's always known Biden's got something quite a bit dimmer than a first-class intellect; tonight, he tried to compensate by bringing heat where he can't shed light. As a result, he was grinning, snorting, smirking, sighing, grimacing, interrupting -- and winding the whole thing up with a whine about Paul Ryan's time (when he himself had actually gotten more). Perhaps the creepiest part was his mugging through the...