Seen Joe Biden lately? What about the Joe Biden who debated Paul Ryan in 2012?

Tony Branco

Just remember Joe brought his A-game to the last debate.

2012: Vice President Joe Biden's smiles and laughter during the vice presidential debate made him look bullying and deranged.  "WHAT WAS THAT ALL about?  "The inappropriate smiles, the aggressive laughs, the all but unhinged finger-pumping raging at moderator Martha Raddatz--I suppose Vice President Joe Biden could have come in with a less appropriate performance last night. I just don't know how.
"Then there was the substance. The vice president's charges that Rep. Paul Ryan was lying were totally predictable and effectively answered.   Joe had "gravitas"?

Naturally, Democrats loved Biden's rudeness but Republicans seemed to be arguing in the wind

Way Back In 2019, Questions About Joe Biden’s Mental Fitness Creep Into Mainstream . . . Biden sparked questions about himself with a bizarre reference to record players while answering a question about the legacy of slavery." . . . 

Biden said.
Zack Beauchamp, a writer with left-wing website Vox, argued that Biden’s strange answer “has to raise questions about Biden’s mental fitness for office, especially given his age.”  . . .

Biden’s Debate Performances Raise the Question: What???   "The hits just keep on coming for Joe Biden at the Democratic debates. By hits, of course, I mean weird, off-putting moments that haunt the mind long after one has been released from the brightly lit prison of the cable news debate stage." . . .

Even SNL had fun with Biden and the debate:  

The UK Guardian gave Biden points  . . . "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?" When the questioning turned to religious faith, Biden simply adopted a completely different voice, husky and several tones lower. 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." . . .

Joe "yelled a lot"

Here It Goes – DNC Says Joe Biden Needs Chair and Desk for Next Debate…   . . . "The Club knows Biden does best in debate formats when sitting down at a desk; just like the 2012 debate between Biden and Paul Ryan. 
"CNN is hosting the debate, and CNN is the most friendly control operation for the needs of the Club.  So what happens… CNN and The Club agree to a small venue town hall format where Joe Biden will be sitting down at a desk to debate Bernie Sanders.

"It is all predictable in the extreme:" . . .
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"The “audience members” who ask questions will all be plants by the Club and CNN; and the Biden campaign will be provided all of the topics and questions well in advance to assist their rehearsal efforts just like they did for Hillary in 2016.   Wash-Rinse-Repeat."