Op-ed:
Joe Biden...arrogance personified 

By: Diane Sori

"The choice is clear: a stagnant economy that promotes more government dependency or a dynamic, growing economy that promotes opportunity and jobs," VP nominee Paul Ryan said. "Mitt Romney and I will not duck the tough issues, and we will not blame others for the next four years."

And that my friends is what this election is really all about...the economy.

But sadly during last night’s Vice-Presidential debate, lost in a sea of scoffing, eye-rolling, smirking, disrespect, and mocking laughter, VP Joe Biden turned what should have been a serious discussion on the critical issues into a divisive, deliberately interruptive attack not only on Paul Ryan but on Mitt Romney as well.

And Martha Raddatz’s constant interruptions didn’t help either, and showed her to be yet another biased liberal journalist in Obama’s pocket.

While Ryan tried to keep focusing on the Obama/Biden failed record of the last four years, pointing out with facts how this administration's domestic and foreign policies were counter-productive to both economic recovery and weakened our nation's standing in the world, all ‘Uncle Joe’ did was snicker at him (with those overly glaring newly whitened chicklett teeth of his), and make it appear that Ryan was nothing but a newbie trying to play with the big boys.

And he failed and failed badly.

Setting a very aggressive tone, interrupting Ryan 82 times, Biden was obviously trying to make up for Obama’s disastrous performance last week, as he spouted off the usual Obama rhetoric that all is now well and fine because of this administration...after all Obama got Osama.

Yeah right (insert sarcastic laugh here).

But Paul Ryan was able to counter all those attacks in a calm reassuring voice of logic and reason.

Hitting back on Biden’s bloviating about how wonderful ObamaCare is, Ryan clearly let the fact be known that non-medical people will now comprise the 15 person panel that will be making medical decisions, thus countered Biden’s scenario that seniors have nothing to fear.  

Truth be told, seniors especially should fear ObamaCare, because when you have non-medical people making medical decisions based on cost that sure sounds like the infamous death panels and rationed medicine that is the ‘secretive’ hushed part of ObamaCare.

And with this memorable line, “They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar turning Medicare into the piggybank for ObamaCare” seniors most definitely need to fear for their future healthcare and their pocketbooks, because remember, ObamaCare is the mother of all taxes that we ALL, seniors included, will be paying for.

And with Biden trying to make this election a choice between ‘differing directions for the country,’ and saying the Romney/Ryan ticket would ‘hurt the middle class and move the nation backward on social issues such as gay rights and abortion,’ he again tried to deflect his and Obama’s failed economic policies and bring to the forefront issues that need to be put on the backburner for now.

On the backburner for now...because along with the economy the issues of Benghazi and Iran need to be put front and center.

With Biden blaming the Benghazi attack and murders on a lack of communication between the intelligence gatherers and the White House, he’s done nothing but play the Obama blame-game yet again...and LYING too for he knew, as did Obama, that help was needed and proof of that came out at this week’s Libya hearings which highlighted Ambassador Stevens’ communiques for help.

"Well, we weren’t told they wanted more security again." Biden lied through his teeth about the fact that this administration, specifically the State Department, had been told again and again that security on the ground in Libya, and in Benghazi in particular, was inadequate at best.  Former Libya security director Eric Nordstrom even described his frustration with having those requests turned down by this administration, saying, "For me the Taliban was on the inside of the building."

Paul Ryan shot off a good one as he countered Biden with this statement, "what we are watching on our TV screens is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy.”

How right he is.

Also, Joe Biden had the audacity to say that if Iran was close to possessing a nuclear weapon we’d know it...hello Joe...we do know it and you must have been sleeping when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly pointed that out for all to see at the UN last month.

With Biden’s obnoxiousness, contentiousness, and definite unlikeability factor during this debate between the career politician and the next generation of leaders, this helped to remind us all of just how bad last week’s presidential debate was for Obama.  And with Paul Ryan reiterating Mitt Romney’s rational, logical, and workable scenario for policy change, he clearly came out on top as a man who has solutions to problems NOT a man who “should know that sometimes the words don’t come out of your mouth quite right.”

Last night VP Joe Biden was all about arrogance and last night Joe Biden proved just how arrogant this administration really is and that will be their downfall.