Saturday, October 13, 2012

More on the Ryan-Biden debate

Gargoyle Joe Is Your Debate Firewall?  "Last night while showing off his expertise, Biden claimed the US is Israel’s best friend and that Obama and Netanyahu have personally met 12 times. Both are lies: Obama pledged to create some distance from Israel and the two have met nine times.

“Foreign Policy” Joe stated emphatically that the consulate in Libya had not asked for additional security, intelligence experts did not warn of an attack and that he knows from security briefings that Iran is a long way from getting an atomic bomb.
"Unfortunately Ryan failed to point out that Thursday’s Washington Post had printed the emails asking for additional security at the consulate and he failed to ask Biden if the “intelligence experts” who assured him Iran is a long way from the bomb are the same ones who promised him the Libyan consulate was in no danger."
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Biden’s whoppers   "Some of the whoppers are shameful. If we had a free press, one or more of these whoppers would lead the news until next week’s presidential debate. They would be deemed to raise a profound questions of the man’s fitness for office, let alone the presidency. I want to itemize four of these whoppers:"...
From Punching the Left; The VP debate was an ambush. 
"If you can't win your own fights, hide behind a bully." 
"And whereas Ryan was sincere and forthright, Biden, when not acting like a drunken mime, spent the debate lying about the Obama administration’s past four years.  He lied about Libya, he lied about the President meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”dozens of times”, he lied about Obama’s definition of “millionaires” – if you make $200,000 a year, congratulations, you’re a millionaire! – , he lied about Sarah Palin talking about death panels in their 2008 debate, he lied about Medicare, and maybe most appalling, he lied about how close Iran is to going nuclear."   Hat tip to Spencer Wolfe at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Ryan was Bidened and almost Borked


Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Podcast: Kristol Reacts to the Vice Presidential Debate
THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Bill Kristol, hosted by Michael Graham:

Twitter frowns on Joe Biden's laugh  "Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan were the two candidates onstage at Thursday’s vice presidential debate, but a third character emerged: Joe Biden’s laugh, which didn’t escape the notice of tweeting politicos"
.Another Poll Shows Biden Won Debate
"A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds respondents think Joe Biden performed better than Paul Ryan in Thursday night's vice presidential debate, 42% to 35%".

WaPo fact checks the vice-presidential debate One such:  “Prior to the election, prior to him being sworn in, Governor Romney was asked the question about how he would proceed. He said, ‘I wouldn’t move heaven and earth to get bin Laden.’”   Biden

"Romney made this statement in a 2007 interview with the Associated Press: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
"But Biden has ignored the rest of the interview, in which the AP quoted Romney as saying “he supports a broader strategy to defeat the Islamic jihad movement.” Just a few days later, Romney expanded on his remarks during a debate:"
“We’ll move everything to get him. But I don’t want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person — Osama bin Laden — because after we get him, there’s going to be another and another. This is about Shia and Sunni. This is about Hezbollah and Hamas and al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a worldwide jihadist effort to try and cause the collapse of all moderate Islamic governments and replace them with a caliphate.” (emphasis added)     Via JustOne Minute
Does anybody know or care that Biden lied so often and has been refuted by so many diverse sources? Certainly not the "progressives" I know.
Well let me tell ya. My record stands for itself. I never say anything I don’t mean. Everybody knows, whatever I say, I do. And, uh, my whole life has been devoted to leveling the playing field for middle class people, giving them an even break.
"So, per Biden, egalitarianism, that is, government dispensing enforced fairness, is the essence of his political philosophy. And so, he really is something of a communist, the essential slogan of which is:

....From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!

Do you know who this man is?

Hint: a classic movie

The glasses will make it extra hard for you. Put your guesses in the comments section below this post if you care to take a shot.

Hint: he goes with the guy pictured at right.

If nobody responds, I'll leave it unanswered. 

By the way, the last one I had was of Shemp Howard, brother of three Stooges' Moe.
The Tunnel Dweller

Friday, October 12, 2012

Catholic Bishops Issue Statement Slamming Biden For Lying About HHS Mandate During Debate…

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Responds To Inaccurate Statement Of Fact On HHS Mandate Made During Vice Presidential Debate
The letter quotes statements by Joe Biden that include these words:
"With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution—Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital—none has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact. That is a fact."
Regarding Biden's statement, the Bishops renounced his words:  "This is not a fact. The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain "religious employers." That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to "Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital," or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served."

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers

Liberal civility

Sick: Libs Hope Paul Ryan’s Wife Gets Raped…
"How progressive."

Ryan: Daughter’s nickname ‘Bean’ came from ultrasound; Sickos crack abortion jokes, spew venom. Read the sick Democrat tweets on this subject at the link.
One of the comments on these sick people:

And amongst all the vile Leftoid hate of babies and their sick pride....A true story just came out that a DOG saved a 3 week old baby by waking the parents....
It says something profound when an animal has more care for human life than a very large swath of the population....
Watch here:  http://www.therightscoop.com/a...
 Current TV Host: Ryan ‘Likes Fetuses So Much Because He Looked Like One Next to Biden’

Thuggishness rising from Warren supporters "Last night Ross Hemminger, Youth Coordinator for the Scott Brown for Senate campain, was heckled by pro-Warren supporters at the Brown-Warren debate. A source at the event told me that the hecklers were union members who were oganized by the Warren campaign for a “stand-out.”
"The incident happened when Hemminger started chanting “Go, Scott, go!” on the megaphone. The Warren supporerts chanted back “You sound gay!” A few others chimed in “You take it up the a**!”"   
The Warren campaign apologized for the Democrats whose conduct was so offensive. 

Obama honors Muslims at Iftar dinner

Iftar Dinner Lies - Obama Butchers The Truth - Bolsters Muslim Brotherhood

Hat tip to Harley Standlee, Placerville, CA
"More broadly, we’ve seen the extraordinary courage of Muslim women during the Arab Spring -- women, right alongside men, taking to the streets to claim their universal rights, marching for their freedom, blogging and tweeting and posting videos, determined to be heard.  In some cases, facing down tanks, and braving bullets, enduring detentions and unspeakable treatment, and at times, giving their very lives for the freedom that they seek -- the liberty that we are lucky enough to enjoy here tonight." 
Related: Obama Campaign To Hold First Muslim Outreach Event…  "Hasn’t he pandered enough to the Muslim community with his reaction to the Mohammed film?"
Obama seems to be to be like the schoolboy who gives his lunch money to the school bully in hopes he will not be harmed.

Obama touts Islam as a religion that Sandra Fluke could like.
"He used his remarks at this year's Iftar dinner to praise Islam as a female-friendly religion. "Indeed, you know that the Koran teaches, 'Be it man or woman, each of you is equal to the other,'" he said. For Obama, it is the Bible, not the Koran, that reeks of dangerous patriarchy. Obama has mocked the Book of Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and St. Paul's letters, but he would never dare question a passage in the Koran, which he regards as a holy and blameless book in no need of politically correct revision."    

Taliban shoots a little girl in the head in Pakistan   "Malala Yousufzai, a 14 year old girl was admired across a battle-scarred region ofPakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities and advocating for girls' education in the face of religious extremists.
"On Tuesday, the Taliban nearly killed her to quiet her message. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in the volatile northern Swat Valley and shot Malala in the head and neck in what appeared to be a targeted assassination attempt (see article: Taliban gunmen shoot 14-year-old girl activist."  Documentary video: We need to see more stories about Muslims such as these. 

Krauthammer and Hanson on the Obama / Romney debate

Charles Krauthammer; The Big Bird counterattack  ...."Lehrer did. In fact, Obama took more time than Romney — 41 / 2 minutes more — while actually speaking 500 fewer words. Romney knew what he thought and said it. Obama kept looking around hoping for the words to come to him. They didn’t.  After the scapegoats came the excuses."
...."Big Bird. The stupidest ad in memory. Has any president ever run an ad so small and trivial? After an unprecedented shellacking in a debate about very large issues, this is his response?
Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson
"The Middle East is ablaze, the country drowning in debt, the fiscal cliff looming — and Obama’s great pitch is that only he can save the $130 million enterprise that is the Sesame Workshop?  
"An inspiring second-term agenda: subsidies for Big Bird and free contraceptives for Sandra Fluke."

Victor Davis Hanson writes, Anatomy of a Disastrous Debate Performance  "Yet perhaps the reason for Obama’s reluctance to face questions and counter-argument was not just that Obama is not very good at it and resents doing his homework (“a drag”), and not just that his economic and foreign policy records are dismal and would be hard to defend under scrutiny, but largely that he has had scant need to work on debating or sharpening his analytical (sic) skills — given the investment of the media and popular culture in his success."

While Joe is laughing, let him grin over these

Intel sources: Video from Benghazi attack debunks administration claim about protests

Hot Air  "Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks, shows an organized group of armed men attacking the compound, according to two U.S. intelligence officials who have seen the footage and are involved in the ongoing investigation. The footage, which was recovered from the site last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, offers some of the most tangible evidence yet that a military-style assault took place, according to these officials…"

Video From Benghazi Consulate Shows Organized Attack  "Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports."....
"The videos were filmed from multiple closed-circuit cameras throughout the compound, and are at times grainy and hard to decipher. There are also some gaps. There is no footage, for example, of Ambassador Chris Stevens going into the safe room where he eventually died from smoke inhalation. The footage at the gate of the compound is taken from an angle that filmed the attackers from the side, so the people in the crowd can mostly be seen in profile."

Breitbart Exclusive: No Record of Intel Briefings for Obama Week Before Embassy Attacks   "According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing--known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)--in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff:"

9/6/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-069/7/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-079/8/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-089/9/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-099/10/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-109/11/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11

 Attack on Libyan embassy: State Department denies link to video

Biden's Church/State Schizophrenia

Peter Heck at American Thinker;  "Amazingly, on live national television, the vice president then went on to state that though he thinks infants in the womb are living human beings, he does not believe in using the force of law to protect them."....
"It's an interesting worldview, isn't it?  Government-sponsored theft is legitimate on moral grounds, but government protection of innocent, defenseless life is unreasonable.  That's the modern Democrat Party."

Via Bookworm Room

White House: Obama & Biden Were Never Aware Of Requests For More Libya Security

JAWA  "During the hearing on Benghazi this week, it was known several requests were made to at least keep the security they had and even more was needed. The requests were denied repeatedly.
"Joe Biden, during the debate last night, denied there were security requests. He used the word "we" never knew. Why, especially leading up to the 9/11 anniversary, didn't they know and who is "we"?
"I call BS
"This video says it all "Question: Doesn't The Buck Stop At The White House On Libya"?"



WHITE HOUSE MOVES TO INSULATE OBAMA ON LIBYA  "The White House scrambled Friday to explain Vice President Biden’s confusing statement that “we weren’t told” of requests for more diplomatic security in Libya, claiming he was referring only to “himself” and President Obama."

Andrew Klavan; Let This Be a Warning to You
"Vice President Joe Biden is the blithering shill for a failed philosophy. Congressman Paul Ryan is the intelligent and articulate defender of the most realistic reform agenda currently available. And yet I think the Romney/Ryan campaign dodged a bullet in the vice presidential debate. If it weren’t for the fact that Biden acted like a grinning, belligerent idiot, he would have won on points. As it was, it was pretty much a draw."


Obama's "Forward" Foreign Policy

Can you trust Barack Obama to protect America?

Hat tip to John LaRosa, Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Commentaries on the Biden-Ryan debate

Business Insider has more on Chris Wallace's comments:  " "I don't believe I've ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan tonight," Wallace said.
"He added: "It was openly contemptuous and disrespectful." "

Biden appeals to base, Ryan takes higher ground in debate   "Polls at MarketWatch.com and CNN show Ryan came away the winner while CNBC.COM’s unscientific poll gave Biden the nod.  In the end, it appears a draw, but there is more to consider."

RNC Web Ad: “Laughing at the Issues” (Official Version)
CNN poll shows Ryan slightly over Biden in debate – lefties go off in comments
BFD: Biden's Failed Debate  "Watching both Biden's and Obama's performances at the 2 debates, an undecided voter would still be clueless as to what the administration is proposing for a second term, except perhaps to move "forward" headlong into the same policies of the last 3 ½ years."
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Biden makes liars out of administration's own State Department   "This is easily the #1 gaffe of the night and has raised eyebrows in the foreign policy establishment."....."Nothing came of Biden's monumental gaffe back then. It is doubtful anything will come of this one."

JOE BIDEN FLAT-OUT LIED ABOUT HIS VOTES ON THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ

Yeshiva World News;  FOX NEWS’ CHRIS WALLACE: I’ve Never Seen A Candidate As Disrespectful As Joe Biden  " “I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan tonight,” Wallace said.
He added: “It was openly contemptuous and disrespectful.” "  Also this:   Biden’s ‘Malarkey’ and Laughter Drive Online Reaction During Veep Debate
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Alan Caruba; A Most Obnoxious Biden   "Worse, perhaps, was the continuous and inappropriate laughter of the Vice President, along with what was clearly a great deal of smirking that suggested his disrespect for Ryan. 
"What we saw and heard was a repeat of the last nearly four years of the Obama administration, one incapable of telling the truth and unwilling to deal with the hard issues whether it was the economy, defense, or foreign affairs."

Fox News; Biden accused of being disrespectful in vice presidential debate with grins, laughs

" "You almost can’t blame Joe Biden for being so unhinged. It must be frustrating to debate when you have a record that is so hard to defend and not a single tangible plan for the second term besides tax hikes," a statement from the Republican National Committee said in drawing attention to notable tweets about Biden's mirth."

Fox; Biden adds more confusion to Libya story with debate claim on security   "In addition to raising eyebrows over that comment, the vice president went a step further and threw the intelligence community under the bus -- putting the blame squarely on their shoulders for the faulty narrative...."

Peggy Noonan; Confusing Strength With Aggression

"A draw on substance, but the vice president loses on style."...."And so the Romney-Ryan ticket emerged ahead. Its momentum was neither stopped nor slowed and likely was pushed forward."


Branco Cartoon – One Heartbeat Away

Weasel Zippers


"The question is will it affect the debates that are coming up, that’s the real heavyweight stuff between Obama and Romney. And I think that the objective, perhaps the one advantage that Biden laid down, is that in the actual arguments he made the points that had been left out of the first debate.” "
"“What he was trying to do is set the premises for the upcoming debates by filling in the blanks, by answering the charges Romney made in Obama had left unanswered — the 47 percent, repeating the $5 trillions of debt,”..."  Via Lucianne.


Many links at National Review Online under the heading "Classless Joe". Here is a small sample:

The VP Debate by Yuval Levin
Mark Steyn; Laughing All the Way to the Bank Collapse  "Ryan isn’t a funny guy. But, when you’re earnest and a bit wonky and up against a smarmy third-rate lounge-act flashing his dentistry, you don’t have to be funny. A bit of righteous indignation would have helped. 
"An opportunity missed."
John Fund writes about Joe the Bully  "Al Gore lost his first debate to George W. Bush in 2000 with his audible sighs and sneering manner. Biden wasn’t quite that bad, but independent voters usually don’t like candidates who come off as a jerk. Biden’s rude demeanor hurt him tonight, providing a poor contrast to Ryan’s calmness on the split screen."
Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel