Toontime: He Says What He Means

Since irony is dead, US Person is at a lost for a word to describe the situation the Democrats faced going into last night vice-presidential debate: depending on a politician of the old school who has a reputation of being syntaxtually challenged (There he goes again!). But last night Joe did not let his boss down. He got in the best zinger of the night while appearing animated and engaged. When Congressman Ryan told the Vice President he had difficulty saying what he means on occasion, Biden quipped immediately, "But I always mean what I say!" Of course, he was waiting for that criticism. Biden has a genuine pugnaciousness (Repuglian spin: obnoxiously rude) that was on display last night and which the dispassionately detached Obamatron so conspicuously lacks. The last time around the Obamanator has to not act like a "stoner" and take it seriously.

[Randy Bish, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
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