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Thursday, October 11, 2012

U.S. Vice Presidential Debate - October 11, 2012

Vice President Joe Biden and Representative Paul Ryan

THE 2012 VP DEBATE

Participants
Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan

Topic:
Foreign and Domestic Policy

WHEN:
Thursday - October 11, 2012 
Eastern Time:  9-10:30pm
Central Time:  8-9:30pm
COSTA RICA • Mountain Time:  7-8:30pm
Pacific Time:  6-7:30pm


WHERE TO SEE IT:
Channels: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and more including CNN Espanol and others

DON'T HAVE A TV 
or get U.S. CHANNELS?

ESPANOL:  
Univision Live


TOPICS • FORMAT FOR DEBATE #2:
The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics.

It will be divided into 9 time segments of approximately 10 minutes each.

The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

(COMMENT:  Great [NOT!!] - once again they're giving the nominees just 2 minutes to answer CRUCIAL questions!!  Setting everyone out to look bad or bossy - but alas, maybe they're just working with the limited mind of the average American who doesn't REALLY want to know what's going on [that way they can play "Victim" when stuff comes down - and it WILL!!!])



HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEBATE TO ME AND COMMENTS FROM BIDEN (biased - oh well!!!):

My friend Lizzie's shared this from Robert Reich - facebook.com/RBReich  wrote this which pretty much sums up what I saw:


"I thought Biden won tonight's debate because he came off as genuine, passionate, and brimming with conviction. Ryan, by contrast, seemed like a wooden marionette, a kid out of his depth relative to someone who not only knew the facts but lived them.

On taxes, Ryan couldn't come up with any details about what loopholes

he and Romney would close, or how their magic arithmetic (giant tax cut for the wealthy plus $2 trillion more for the military than the Joint Chiefs of Staff want) can possibly be paid for without socking it to the middle class.

By contrast, Biden made the case for average working people whose wages have barely risen in thirty years but who are bearing a higher total tax burden (payroll, sales, property, income) on a higher percent of their income than high rollers like Romney -- and why the well off should do more.

On Medicare, Ryan couldn't explain why his plan wasn't a voucher program that "saved" money only by shifting the costs on to seniors who would end up holding the bag as medical costs rose. Biden effectively defended the President's plan to save Medicare by cutting excessive payments to providers.

Biden also pointed out that Ryan and his allies had tried to privatize Social Security. Score another one for Joe.

On abortion, Ryan had to admit he and Romney would work to prevent women from having the right to choose an abortion if they needed and wanted one. Biden made it clear his religious beliefs about when life began should not, in his view, force anyone who didn't share them to follow them.

I thought Biden's closing could have been tougher, drawing a sharper contrast between the Romney-Ryan "you're on your own" worldview, and the "we're in it all together" belief that has built America -- and which Obama and Biden represent.

But overall it was Biden's night. He not only trounced Ryan, but also, in the process, trounced Romney. Joe Biden is an average Joe solidly grounded in America's working middle class -- nothing pretentious or devious about him -- in contrast to the plutocrat who heads the Republican ticket, and the billionaires who are backing him."

"If they would get out of the way and let us pass the tax cut for the middle class and make it permanent. If they would get out of the way and pass the jobs bill. If they would get out of the way and let us allow 14 million people who are struggling to stay in their homes because their mortgages are upside down but they never missed a mortgage payment. Just get out of the way. Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.” ~ Joe Biden to the republican congress through Paul Ryan (VP Debate 2012)
 
 


LOCATION:
Centre College in Danville, Kentucky


SPONSOR:
Commission on Presidential Debates

MODERATOR
Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)
MARTHA Kicked Tush!!  Kept calling them on the carpet!!!



                  FUTURE DEBATES
October 16, 2012
President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)


The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
October 22, 2012
President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Topic: Foreign policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS)


The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy.


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DO YOU LIVE ABROAD?
WANT TO VOTE?
It's NOT too late in most states!!  
DO IT NOW!!!!
(ok - that means me also!!
Are you on Social Security or getting Medicare?  If you don't vote and the person that wants to take it AWAY as you know it is elected - you will have NO ONE ELSE to BLAME but YOURSELF so don't bitch to me over it!!  [hey - it's MY blog!!!  I'm just saying it like I see it as I don't do the "victim mentality" - well, not most of the time!!!])




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I'm not going to hide who I'm voting for (OBAMA!!!  He's not perfect [and neither am I, I mean how DARE we expect others to do more than WE'RE willing to help with/change within OURSELVES!!  Remember his MAIN "Slogan" last time around peeps??  "Yes - WE - can!!!"  So what have YOU done to be part of the "WE"????] but between the 2, for the things that I value the MOST [#1 - PEOPLE!!!] - THAT's why I'm voting for him!!!  I'm looking at the BIG PICTURE (plus ANYONE that actually believes that ANY president has EVER had ANY "power" [and lived to tell the story] - I mean - REALLY????) - since this is MY blog but I waited to the bottom to add some quotes I like and you can see more at:
http://SarongGoddess.com/Politics/ObamaForPresident2012


















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