Joe Biden & "Rudeness"

Everyone know that Romney won the first presidential debate. To say that Obama's performance was awful is an understatement. The president was too passive, too dull, and always stared at his lap. Naturally Romney got some boost in all pollings. When Joe Biden debated Ryan on Thursday night, everything's change. Biden mopped the floor with Ryan, no contest there.

FOXNews complained that Biden was rude. They got a point there, cutting others is not polite. Especially when you cut even the moderator. Nevertheless, I wonder why they focused on that thing? Last time I heard, "The-evil-socialist-communist-Muslim" Obama and his vice president is sooo bad, why suddenly Biden's "rudeness" become the issue? And I thought Obama focusing on "Big Bird" is moronic ...

Other than that, I think Biden has at least 3 good excuses for being "rude":

1) He is the oldest person in the debate.

Face it, people cut you FAR MORE slack if you are the oldest one. If it was Ryan who did it, everyone will think that he is a bully, but older person got some right to bully the young ones, especially when the age different is one generation wide. Nope, I don't like it, but that's still the case.

2) People are aware that he was compensating for Obama's passive and dull performance.

I think people know exactly that this debate is a continuation with Obama-Romney debate. People will be easier to forgive "a rudeness" if they picture it together with Obama's passivity previously. 

And the media LOVE reversal/comeback. Obama was already defeated by Romney, so when people hear: Ryan "The budget expert" defeated Biden? zzzz ... Biden "The gaffe maker" demolished Ryan? OH YEAH, that's interesting!

 Do I like this? Nope, but that's still the case.

3) Biden experienced some serious shit.

He lost his wife and daughter in a car accident. Yes that's happened decades ago, but out of thin air, Paul Ryan brought it to the table when he tried to portrait Mitt Romney as a compassionate person by pointing that Romney helped some car crash victims. What? Seriously, didn't you have another example? Is the only occasion where Romney showed compassion was when he met those car crash victims? A simple rule in debate that Ryan missed: DON'T MAKE THE AUDIENCES SYMPHATHIZED WITH YOUR OPPONENT! Great Scott, Ryan really deserved to be defeated in this debate.

And the Biden won not only in style, but also in substance. Biden's best moment in the debate is when he responded to Ryan's statement that stimulus money is wrong, and pointed out that Ryan himself wrote 2 e-mails asking for stimulus money. OUCH! Ryan was outclassed, outmatched, and outgunned by the energetic Biden.

 

Can Romney still win?

Absolutely.

This race was not, and won't be a cakewalk neither for Obama nor Romney.