Saturday, October 13, 2012

Joe Biden made history with his weird, wired performance in the vice-presidential debate—but he did so in a way that could easily damage the Obama campaign.

Joe Biden’s Rude Debate Laughter: The Joke’s on Him

What’s so funny, Biden? Why the veep’s rude chortles during last night’s faceoff constituted a new low in debate etiquette—and will only hurt his boss. By Michael Medved.



In the last 40 years of presidential politics, Democrats have often derided their Republican rivals as jokers and buffoons. But they have never before laughed in their faces on national TV. In that sense, Joe Biden made history with his weird, wired performance in the vice-presidential debate—but he did so in a way that could easily damage the Obama campaign.
Joe Biden Reacts to Comment by Paul Ryan
Joe Biden (left) and Paul Ryan (right) participate in the vice-presidential debate as moderator Martha Raddatz looks on at Centre College on October 11, 2012, in Danville, Kentucky. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Though Americans eventually came to respect Gerald Ford for his decency and honor, the Carter campaign and its media allies happily mocked him as a dunce (despite his degree from Yale Law School) and a stumblebum. Carter himself, however, never snickered or guffawed at his opponent during any of their three debates in 1976—even when Ford committed his fatal gaffe of declaring that “there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.”
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