With incredulous looks, frequent interruptions and emotional outbursts, Vice President Joe Biden showed more life in the first 15 minutes of last night’s vice presidential debate with Rep. Paul Ryan than President BarackObama showed during the entire debate last week against Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. RELATED: The Vice-Presidential Debate: Fact Vs. Fiction[1] And for many, Biden’s showing last night, with him not only fact checking Ryan’s “plans” but underscoring his and the President’s successes, proved that the Democrats were in it to win it. Watch a summary of the debate here: On foreign policy, Biden spoke, in part, about President Obama’s determination to seek and capture Osama bin Laden, highlighting Gov. Romney’s public decision to “not move heaven and earth” in the significant effort: When it came to Osama bin Laden, the president the first day in office, I was sitting with him in the Oval Office, he called in the CIA and signed an order saying, “My highest p ...
WASHINGTON — It’s more than President Barack Obama‘s lackluster debate performance that has some Democrats on edge a month from Election Day. SEE ALSO: Madeleine Albright: Romney ‘Dead Wrong’ On Foreign Policy[1] Party loyalists in Washington and in battleground states are fretting that Obama’s campaign has been slow to rebound after Republican Mitt Romney‘s commanding debate. They’re worried that the Democratic ticket isn’t aggressive enough in blocking Romney’s post-debate pivot to the political center. And they fear Romney’s new effort to show a softer side gives the Republican nominee an opening with female voters, who are crucial to the president’s re-election prospects. “I’m not feeling very positive,” said Awilda Marquez, a prominent Democrat in Colorado. “I know that it’s only the first debate, but he can’t seem to change the relentless negative coverage. Romney has been able to take control.” Her nervousness was echoed by roughly a dozen Democrats in interviews across the country ...
