When is biden ryan debate

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Biden is an incorrigible ham. On the split-screen, while Ryan spoke, he could be seen grinning, chuckling, shaking his head, throwing his hands to the skies or hanging his head in exaggerated disbelief, a widely varying sequence of gestures that all amounted to "can you believe this guy? With exuberant disingenuousness, he referred to Ryan as "my friend" more than a dozen times. But it all seemed to work. It worked much better, certainly, than Obama's decision to act as if the split-screen wasn't there.

The counter-narrative, which Fox News's talking heads were busily attempting to entrench within seconds of the final applause, was that Biden's laughter, like Al Gore's notorious sighs, would prove a liability in the coming days. Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in.

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Search for:. Manage subscription. Subscribe to the Monitor. Monitor Daily current issue. Monitor Weekly digital edition. Biden was loose and mostly in command of the facts. Ryan was on his heels. Groomed for 36 years in the Senate hearing rooms and another eight as Vice President, he gets what needs to happen on live TV. The team around him is a set of pros who trust each other and can cajole Biden to be his best self.

To watch him twirl in his chair on stage eight years ago in Kentucky was to enjoy a masterclass in political performance art. He leaned back and chuckled when Ryan struggled to match the carefully worded attacks. The problem, at least for much of the primary, has been that the Danville version of Biden has yet to show up.

He wanted to talk about ideas, not opp-files.