Yes, I started watching it. Yes, I gave up after an hour. Biden was good when serious, but all his laughing (at what?) drove me nuts. Ryan was well rehearsed and didn’t give up any details of Romney’s mysterious plans for our future, even though moderator Martha Radditz pressed him on it. She did a good job and I declare her the winner.
Yes…that’s two votes for Martha…
🙂
Now I feel less guilty…too annoying. No surprises, except the moderator moderated
Yep, that was about it.
Blogger Duane Graham posted an excellent analysis of the debate this morning, based on his own admittedly liberal opinions, and it included a good many transcriptions of the exact interchanges between the two men. My own comment was, for the most part, this:
Duane, posting as “The Erstwhile Conservative” works hard at his craft and I can vouch for his integrity based on a two-year association. Anyone interested can see his full post at:
http://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/the-revivalist/
I saw that exchange, and Ryan completed missed — or chose to overlook — Biden’s repeated point that the Afghans we train, not American troops, are supposed to be taking over the fighting. Whether they choose to step up and do so is their problem, not ours. The nation-building is over. Our departure is long overdue as far as I’m concerned — the trainees are shooting the trainers.
I couldn’t agree with you more. We have overstayed our “welcome” – which we all know we weren’t welcome to begin with. But it’s time to let them take their country back into their own hands. Bring our troops home so we can stop this horrible suicide rate as well as other injuries and deaths.
I ran out of whiskey before it was over.
Yeah? Which drinking game were you playing?
Interruption shots.
LOL. Yep, you wouldn’t have lasted long with that one.
I peeked in from time to time (when all the games where in commercial), but never found anything to keep watching…
Good call. Personally, I went back to playing Borderlands until “Last Resort” started.
The pilot for “Last Resort” was awesome, but the 2nd and 3rd episodes are still sitting on my DVR because of the MLB playoffs and other such… 😳
It’s probably my favorite new show, of the ones I’ve seen. No DVR is a handicap. 🙁
Martha Radditz did an excellent job! I loved how she pressed Ryan for more details and he just kept side-stepping her. It was very clear that he had no answer for specifics of their program. And I agree about Biden’s smile and chuckling… it was annoying. But when he got his groove on, about halfway through, that diminished considerably.