Here's the difference - after seeing how Romney used an aggressive nature to push a whole bunch of malarkey last week - Biden decided to meet Republican lies aggressively and not allow them to stand unchallenged.

Last week the right loved the strong performance - but this week you call it disrespect. Its like when the bully meets the kid who won't back down and goes home to tell his mother....

Romney didn't interrupt, laugh when his opponent was talking about the plight of the middle class, talk under his breath, gesture almost uncontrollably while the President was responding to a question.

Jan this was a debate between Biden and Ryan. He was given equal time to refute anything said by Ryan. The same was true during the Romney/Obama debate. If Obama was not able to refute Romney's "lies" what makes you believe that they were lies?

Biden ready to be president??? Of what? A circus? A clown union?

Hi Salemvoter,
Romney didn´t interrupt or laugh. He just lied through his teeth as he´s done for quite a while. Pro-choice as Mass. governor, then virulently anti-choice for the tea party activists, and now who knows where on reproductive freedom. Cut taxes and increase revenue? I´ll close loopholes but won`t tell you which. Malarky. Create millions of jobs but not say how he would do it. Bogus. Gonna bring fuel prices down... yeah right, now with China and other countries keeping world energy demand and prices high. Etch a sketch man... paint a new picture every time they find my previous one is fouled up.
I´d rather have a sincere president who cares about working people and is somewhat gruff and discourteous than a smoothie aristocrat who has little or no idea what it´s like to depend on a paycheck... Move in to your parents´ basement and ask them for a loan if ya wanna go to college. Mitt, get real... if you can. I´ll take the discourteous one over the liar. BTW, did you express outrage when Right Wing hero VP Cheney told someone to F.... off on the floor of the Senate. Maybe this plea for civility of the right wing is a little late and misplaced... Torture approved by Dubya and Cheney seems a bit more uncivil than interrupting in a debate.
Nuf said.

I'm not embarrassed -- I'm energized! Vice President Biden made it clear that Mr.Bean is a lying lightweight, unfit for national office.

But thanks for trying to speak for me.

Energized to do what - maybe go to funeral homes and sneer at the families ?

Dems ignore facts like that. Facts destroy their fantasy world.

Why didn't the Vice President let Congressman Ryan answer the questions without interruptions.

Also the Vice President clearly lied or proved his incompetence by stating that diplomats in Libya asked for more security.
"“We weren’t told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security.”
— Biden, speaking of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya

Biden’s bold statement was directly contradicted by State Department officials just this week, in testimony before a congressional panel and in unclassified cables released by a congressional committee

The Vice President also claimed he didn't vote to authorize military action in Iraq.

Salemvoter:

> Why didn't the Vice President let Congressman Ryan answer
> the questions without interruptions.

Probably because every word out of Lyin' Ryan's mouth was a lie (and that includes "and" and "umm"). Unlike in the previous Presidential Debate, Vice President Biden decided not to let the lies go unchallenged. It's a shame more people don't challenge the constant spew of Republican lies.

what a joke. You are so in the bag for the left it's embarrassing. He broke the cardinal rule for Democrats,he fought back?? Like Democrats are always civilized and respectful. What I saw from Biden was rudeness and disrespect, which is exactly what the hard left spews, which is exactly why you are "energized" and think Biden won.

Dave Murry, still working through the math on that $5 trillion tax cut to the rich?

Joe Biden may be loud, but his record speaks for itself. He is for the middle class and Ryan is for the rich.

Remember when Ryan was criticizing the stimulus and then asked for stimulus money for his own state? That was a great point in the debate!

FTP - Who is picking up the tab for the stimilus bill? The taxpayer. Sooooo - do you think the taxpayers in Ryan's district should be asked to pay for the stimilus bill but never be given a chance to receive that for which they pay? Absurdity at its best!
Shame on Ryan if he failed to seek some stimilus funding for his district when he knew full well that most of it would go to Obama donors and never reach the average citizen who is paying the bill.

libs are always bent out of shape over tax cuts, who gets a cut, who shouldn't get one, and who should get stimulus money. I never hear them looking at government and saying... "ya know, maybe $16Trillion in debt is a little much, maybe government should cut back." Government is the biggest hog by far, and they're at the trough of the people's money! And they act like it's THEIR money. So we have this situation where DC steals $ from the people and congressmen/women (whether they're for it or not) figure they better at least try to grab some of it back for their district. It's all asinine, but it's the game that's played every day.

Spoken like a true welfare leech. Gimme, gimme, gimme.

Yeah dump, if I was CEO of the corporate world, you could call me a welfare leech if that comment was directed at me. You know what they say about assume? Don't assume how you know how I make my living. I don't ask for government handouts. I only want a fair playing field where some aren't allowed to take advantage of the many. By your many comments on here I will assume you are a drag on society. Doom and gloom is all you have to offer. Why is that?

He is a disgrace to Irish Americans everywhere. He is a disgrace to Catholics as well. However, the United Conference of Catholic Bishops have taken him to task for his lying about the HHS Mandate. He owes Catholics and the Catholic Church an apology for his lies.

He needs to go!