We’re about thirty minutes into the debate and already Vide President Joe Biden is receiveing pretty tough reviews for his bizarre smiling and smirking as debate moderator Martha Raddatz talks about issues as serious as Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
Welcome to the Joe Biden Lie Detector – we’ll be updating this post throughout the debate and the aftermath. You can also follow along on Twitter for updates and spin-off debates by searching for #BidenLieDetector. 5:00 p.m EDT Long before
Tonight, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan will meet the incumbent Vice President Joe Biden at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky for the first and only debate for the Vice Presidency. The last time Joe Biden met for such
Paul Ryan, who always seems to be on the sunny side of the street when he is interviewed, sounded sanguine about tonight’s debate with Joe Biden while at the same time acknowledging that Biden has years of experience that will
The mother of slain State Dept. Official Sean Smith told Anderson Cooper she is still waiting for someone to tell her what happened to her son on Sept. 11. Smith was killed in Benghazi, and his mother says she was
So what’s the latest meme being promulgated in the Obama campaign’s “personal” emails? For the moment, they have given up swearing, and now they’ve taken up the psychological condition known as projection; i.e. accusing someone else of behavior that you
If Paul Ryan is resoundingly defeating Joe Biden in Thursday’s vice presidential debate, viewers will now know Biden is not losing purposefully. Biden told reporters on Thursday that his strategy for the debate was not going to be “rope-a-dope.” When
I have cautioned Republicans that we shouldn’t get too excited about Thursday’s VP debate. Yes, Paul Ryan has forgotten more about the federal budget than Joe Biden ever knew. But, sometimes, having too much knowledge can trip you up in
By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressWASHINGTONTo prepare for his biggest test yet on the national stage, untested debater Paul Ryan has been hauling two thick briefing books around the country and intently studying up on Vice President Joe Biden, who has been
Ahead of Thursday evening’s highly-anticipated debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Rep. Paul Ryan, pundits are wondering whether the moderator, ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, will comply with pressure from media colleagues to be more aggressive than Jim Lehrer
Vice President Joe Biden has a problem: nobody seems to like him. In the latest Pew Research Center poll, from October 2012, just 39% of the public had a favorable opinion of Biden, compared to 51% unfavorable; by contrast, Republican
Oh, where, oh, where has Joe Biden gone? He hasn’t done a national interview for 5 months. Now just why would a vice-president of the United States eschew doing interviews for half a year? Let’s posit some hypotheses as to
During the 2008 vice presidential debate against Sarah Palin, Joe Biden told an anecdote about someone at his local gas station who did not have enough money to fill up his gas tank because gas prices ($3.17 on average for
Under the tutelage of David Axelrod, the president’s chief strategist who is personally overseeing the preparations, Mr. Biden will be counseled on how to avoid Mr. Obama’s mistakes and even correct them with a more aggressive prosecution of the Republican
No, the answer isn’t “just show up.” Biden is a master of malarkey, turning clear defeats into victories, fiction into fact. In 2008, Gov. Sarah Palin completely outclassed her more seasoned opponent. And yet the post-debate commentary–often more important than
Veterans for a Strong America (VSA) has released a television commercial focusing on the Obama administration’s mishandling of classified information and the ultimate price Navy SEAL Team Six’s Aaron Vaughn paid as a consequence. The commercial shows former Sec. of Defense
Rep. Paul Ryan is not just running for Vice President; he’s also running for re-election as the Representative from Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district. His name was on the ballot before he was chosen as Mitt Romney’s running mate–and, by law,
Joe Biden, who poses as a friend of the working man, has been helping credit card companies gorge on the downtrodden for years. In the mid-1990s the financial services industry started to try to stop people going bankrupt from erasing
Today, Maureen Dowd decided not to bother writing her column. Instead, she turned over her crayon to Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin quickly decided that if Barack Obama couldn’t suffice as his candidate in a presidential debate, he’d call upon a fictional
Rep. Paul Ryan is an excellent debater, having bested President Barack Obama himself and many other opponents besides. But Ryan also has a few vulnerable points that Vice President Joe Biden will try to exploit at their debate at Centre
When Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) debates Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night, he will be under pressure to repeat Mitt Romney’s victory over President Barack Obama last week–and to prove that he can meet the “commander-in-chief test.” It is a
Joe Biden, who functions in a world most rational people are unfamiliar with, praised Barack Obama’s performance in Wednesday’s debate: I think the president did well. He was presidential. You just don’t ever know what game, what positions Governor Romney’s
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden said at a campaign rally that the “middle class has been buried the past four years.” The moment made its way into Jay Leno’s monologue on NBC’s Tonight Show.
Vice President Joe Biden told an audience, “the President and I are not going to listen” to critics of their $90 billion in green energy spending during a speech the day before Solyndra went belly up and laid off most
According to press pool accounts, Vice President Joe Biden today made a stop in a Hy-Vee Store in Iowa to pick up some soup at a food counter. After grabbing some vegetable beef soup, he began complaining about the trials
