This and That...

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Okay... this has to be the the most pathetic piece of crap in the world!  A jacket that hugs you every time someone "likes" something on your Facebook page.

If you've ever felt a "like" on Facebook wasn't quite real enough, a US designer has unveiled a jacket that hugs the wearer every time they receive one.

 


Designed by MIT student Melissa Chow, the "Like-A-Hug" is a wearable social media vest that allows for hugs to be given via Facebook, bringing us closer despite physical distance.  The vest inflates when friends 'Like' a photo, video, or status update on the wearer's wall.  It's creator says this "allows us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs."

Soon to be purchased by people who refer to their pet monkeys as their children.

                     

Well.... maybe there's one thing more pathetic than that stupid body amore:
the response to actress Stacey Dash's tweet that she was supporting Mitt Romney.  You would think she had eaten a baby or something.  Oh, wait... that's going to be an episode on Two Broke Girls.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/twitter-explodes-after-black-actress-endorses-romney-as-the-only-choice-for-your-future/

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Economic Management

A closer look at spending habits:

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Protestants No Longer a Majority in America, as Big Fat Nothings Soar!

Not really.  But that's what you'd think given some of the headlines.

Nevertheless, they don't call it the Pew study for nothing: pee-euw!  In the past five years, the percentage of Americans who identify as some kind of "Christian" has dropped by 5 percent, from 78% of the population to 73%.  If this trend continues, by the year 4050, Christians will be a scant 64% of the population although I may be mistaken about that.

Here's the chart so you can glean numbers at a glance:





From the PEW:

     

"One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation"


The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling.

In the last five years alone, the unaffiliated have increased from just over 15% to just under 20% of all U.S. adults. Their ranks now include more than 13 million self-described atheists and agnostics (nearly 6% of the U.S. public), as well as nearly 33 million people who say they have no particular religious affiliation (14%).3



http://www.pewforum.org/Unaffiliated/nones-on-the-rise.aspx

Also, check:

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/10/religious-freedom-restrictions-on-the-rise-even-in-the-u-s/

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10 Dates to Remember from Barack Obama's
Amazing First Term

By John Hawkins
10/9/2012


"The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln." -- Barack Obama


As future generations of Americans look back at the Obama years, perhaps as they search for some sort of explanation for why so many of them are living in huts and paying a 70% income tax rate when the country used to be so rich, they'll be looking for some key dates and facts. So, in an effort to help future generations, here is a straightforward, entirely factual account of some of the most important moments of the Obama years.


1) Barack Obama Inaugurated (January 20, 2009): Oh, it was such a hopeful, glorious, unified moment. Cats and dogs, Fox and MSNBC, Republicans and Democrats -- we were all in it together and rooting Obama on towards victory..........which brings up some obvious questions like: How did Barack Obama squander so much goodwill and what did he do to make so many Americans hate him?


2) Barack Obama throws out the first pitch at the All-Star game (July 14, 2009): On this date, the hippest man ever to occupy the White House revolutionized fashion in America at Major League Baseball's All-Star game. Ever heard of mom jeans? Well, Barack Obama wore them to the All-Star game and that, combined with his girlish throwing motion, caused moms across America to copy the mom-in-chief – and that is how Barack Obama created mom jeans!


3) Obamacare passes (March 21, 2010):
In one fell swoop, Barack Obama managed to cripple American healthcare, put the medical insurance industry on suicide watch, stall the economy, and empower the IRS and unelected death panels to get involved in your health care. If you were looking for comparable bad decisions from other world leaders, you'd probably need to go back to Napoleon's decision to invade Russia during the winter or Nero's decision to play the lyre on his balcony while Rome was burning instead of organizing a fire brigade. (In all fairness to Nero, that may be a rumor. For any future generations that are wondering what went so wrong with healthcare, contrary to what your liberal schoolteachers are telling you, George W. Bush was not responsible for "Obamacare." It really was Obama.)


4) Osama Bin Laden was killed (May 2, 2011): I
n what undoubtedly was Barack Obama's greatest moment, a bunch of scared, wimpy SEALs came to him and said, "We've figured out where Osama Bin Laden is, but we think we shouldn't go get him because we're afraid!" That was undoubtedly how most other Americans would have felt as well because as Obama's team has told us constantly, he made a "gutsy call" to kill Osama. So obviously, those SEAL pansies had to be pushed into killing him, a wimp like John McCain wouldn't have done it, and hundreds of millions of Americans who were angry about 9/11 wouldn't have had cojones as big as President Mom-Jeans since he made such an incredibly "gutsy call."


5) NASA had its last manned space flight (July 21, 2011):
America's "science President" moved America "forward" by cancelling our manned space program, which actually takes us all the way "backward" to 1960, the year before this country had its first crewed spaceflight. Hooray! We've gone backwards fifty years under Obama which takes us "forward"...or something.


6) America loses its AAA credit rating (August 5, 2011):
For the first time since 1917, America had its credit rating downgraded from AAA by Standard & Poor's. Despite Barack Obama's call telling S&P that Tea Partiers must have spent all those trillions of dollars while he was out of the White House golfing and his promise that "We'll pay it all back when our next paycheck comes in, we swear", S&P refused to take Obama's record-breaking deficit numbers off the books.


7) Barack Obama increases the national debt more in 3 years and 2 months than George Bush did in two terms (March 18, 2012):
Despite delivering the "feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression," Barack Obama managed to rack up more debt in 38 months than George W. Bush did in 96 months. That's sort of like putting down enough money to buy a Lamborghini and getting a used Dukes of Hazzard remote control toy car in return.
http://news.yahoo.com/economic-recovery-weakest-since-world-war-ii-152031546--finance.html


8 ) "You didn't build that." (July 13, 2012):
In a revolutionary speech -- well, for the President of a capitalistic country anyway -- Barack Obama explained how the markets work. Apparently, the government provides roads, street signs, and regulations and in response, small businesses spring up to provide jobs and tax revenue without any individual effort, sort of like mushrooms after a night of hard rain.


9) Barack Obama had a Las Vegas Fundraiser (September 12, 2012):
One day after Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died because the Obama Administration ignored numerous warnings that they were in danger, Barack Obama jetted off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas. There were fears that four Americans dying because of Obama's incompetence might spoil the mood, but all reports seem to indicate that a good time was had by all.


10) Barack Obama gets demolished in his first head-to-head debate with Mitt Romney (October 3, 2012):
Surprisingly, Barack Obama, whom the mainstream media has christened as the most warm, charismatic, cool, confident, competent and good looking President in American history, was soundly defeated (as in Genghis Khan's forces managed to soundly defeat the unarmed farmers who opposed him) by Mitt Romney, who is often fondly described as "robotic, but in a good way" by his supporters. The explanations for this inexplicable defeat ranged from "The air in Denver was too thin for him," to "Jim Lehrer didn't ask Obama enough questions about how wonderful he is," to "Do you think he's high again? I mean, I wouldn't put it past him – and, wow, would it explain a LOT OF THINGS about his presidency."

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     Who's On First?  (Modern Version)



COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

ABBOTT: Good subject. Terrible times. It's 8.1%.

COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: You just said 8.1%.

ABBOTT: 8.1% Unemployed.

COSTELLO: Right 8.1% out of work.

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, that's 8.1%.

COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 8.1% or 16%?

ABBOTT: 8.1% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.

COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, Obuma said you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed.  You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: But they ARE out of work!!

ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.

COSTELLO: What point?

ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work.  It wouldn't be fair.

COSTELLO: To whom?

ABBOTT: The unemployed.

COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.

ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work.  Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.

COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment rolls, that would count as less unemployment?

ABBOTT: Absolutely!  Unemployment would go down.

COSTELLO: The unemployment goes down just because you don't look for work?

ABBOTT: Right! That's how Obuma gets it to 8.1%.  Otherwise it would be 16%.  He doesn't want you to read about 16% unemployment.

COSTELLO: That would be tough on his reelection.

ABBOTT: You got it.

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you.  That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

ABBOTT: Two ways... that's right.

COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

ABBOTT: Correct.

COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

ABBOTT: Bingo.

COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have Obuma's supporters stop looking for work.

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like the Obuma Economy Czar.

COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like Obuma....


Don't be fooled by bogus unemployment numbers...

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UPDATE: The RNC notices that Obuma doesn't seem
as concerned about Libya or the economy as he is
about PBS:

   

During the debate last week, Willard Mitt Romney confessed to liking Big Bird, even though he intended to cut PBS's government funding.  So Obuma supporters have taken that to mean he really hates Big Bird, because if you don't give everyone what they want when they want it, you are ipso facto a hater.

Doesn't matter. Here are Six Reasons why we should all hate Big Bird.

1. He talks. This confuses children. As Bill Nye the Erstwhile Science Guy made plain, we don't want to beguile children with erroneous ideas about the natural world.  Birds do not talk.  At least not in English, and in complete sentences.

2. He's a welfare king.  Despite the fact that Sesame Street rakes in hundreds of millions in merchandising every year, this miserable creature continues to take funds from the public coffers.

3. He's 8'2″ .... which means he's leaving a larger carbon footprint than Snoopy, a war veteran.    http://www.snoopyflyingace.com/#

4. He's a slum lord.  As part of the Sesame Street "family," he has left denizens like Oscar the Grouch living in garbage and the Cookie Monster eating nothing but junk food... for 40-plus years.  Repeated calls to clean up Sesame Street and allow new private businesses to revitalize the economy have fallen on deaf ears.  And while Mayor Bloomerpants is slashing soda sizes, Sesame Street remains a marginalized haven of sugar-laden treats, ensuring that yet another generation of American youth gets hooked on the needle... the insulin needle.

5. In order to replenish his supply of feathers.... he rips them off Turkeys.  Yes, you read correctly... Turkeys.     (Look it up if you don't believe me.)

6. Big Bird is a Socialist!  He... ur.. uh.. the bird claims the following: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

It's time this bird was exposed for the massive fraud he is... a threat to the American way of life.

In fact, he's not even a bird.  He's people.  Yes, he's people.  Go to any prison in this country, and what do you see?  People.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroll_Spinney

A vote for Willard Mitt Romney is a vote to end the lies.

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....Let the gaffes begin!


Missing in Action: Stimulus Sheriff Joe Biden


By Michelle Malkin
10/10/2012


Remember when President Obama bragged about Joe Biden's fiscal discipline cred in 2009? "To you, he's Mr. Vice President, but around the White House, we call him the Sheriff," Obama warned government employees. "Because if you're misusing taxpayer money, you'll have to answer to him."


Fast-forward to 2012. Call in the search teams. Since being appointed the nation's stimulus spending cop, Sheriff Joe has taken a permanent donut break. He's AWOL on oversight. In fact, he's been bubble-wrapped, boxed and kept completely out of sight. The garrulous gaffe machine hasn't sat down for a national media interview in five months.
The Democrats' trillion-dollar "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," however, keeps piling up waste, failure, fraud and debt.

Who benefited most? Big government cronies.

According to Investor's Business Daily this week, a new analysis by Ohio State University economics professor Bill Dupor reported that "(m)ore than three-quarters of the jobs created or saved by President Obama's economic stimulus in the first year were in government."

Dupor and another colleague had earlier concluded that the porkulus was a predictable jobs-killer that crowded out non-government jobs with make-work public jobs and programs. Indeed, the massive wealth redistribution scheme "destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs" by siphoning tax dollars "to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment."

Will this Keynesian wreckage come up during Thursday night's vice presidential debate? It should be a centerpiece of domestic policy discussion. Nowhere is the gulf between Obama/Biden rhetoric and reality on jobs wider.

Remember: Obama's Ivy League eggheads behind the stimulus promised that "(m)ore than 90 percent of the jobs created are likely to be in the private sector." These are the same feckless economic advisers who infamously vowed that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent -- and that unemployment would drop below 6 percent sometime this year.

Sheriff Joe rebuked the "naysayers" who decried the behemoth stimulus program's waste, fraud and abuse. "You know what? They were wrong," he crowed.

>>>But Biden was radio silent about the nearly 4,000 stimulus recipients who received $24 billion in Recovery Act funds -- while owing more than $750 million in unpaid corporate, payroll and other taxes. (Cash for Tax Cheats, anyone?)

>>>He had nothing to say about the $6 billion in stimulus energy credits for homeowners that went to nearly a third of credit-claimers who had no record of homeownership, including minors and prisoners.

>>>And the $530 million dumped into the profligate Detroit public schools for laptops and other computer equipment that have had little, if any, measurable academic benefits.

>>>And the whopping $6.7 million cost per job under the $50 billion stimulus-funded green energy loan program -- which funded politically connected but now bankrupt solar firms Solyndra ($535 million), Abound Solar ($400 million), Beacon Power ($43 million), A123 ($250 million) and Ener1 ($119 million).

>>>And the $1 million in stimulus cash that went to Big Bird and Sesame Street "to promote healthy eating," which created a theoretical "1.47" jobs. (As Sean Higgins of The Examiner noted, "(T)hat comes out to about $726,000 per job created.")

>>>And the hundreds of millions in stimulus money steered to General Services Administrations junkets in Las Vegas and Hawaii, ghost congressional districts, dead people, infrastructure to nowhere and ubiquitous stimulus propaganda road signs stamped with the shovel-ready logo.

Of course, there's no example of unfettered stimulus squandering more fitting than the one named after Keystone Fiscal Kop Joe Biden himself. Government-funded Amtrak's Wilmington, Del., station raked in $20 million in "recovery" money after heavy personal lobbying by the state's most prominent customer and cheerleader. In return, the station (which came in $6 million over budget, according to The Washington Times) renamed its facility after Biden.

Bloated costs. Crony political narcissism. Glaring conflicts of interest. Monumental waste. This is the Obama/Biden stimulus legacy bequeathed to our children and their grandchildren.

Sheriff Joe Biden and his plundering boss need to be run out of town on a rail.

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The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama

by John Hawkins
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/09/18/the_25_most_obnoxious_quotes_from_barack_obama

25.) "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." -- Barack Obama

24.) "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." -- Barack Obama

23.) "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." -- Barack Obama

22.) "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." -- Barack Obama


21.) "I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby." -- Barack Obama

20.) "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection." -- Barack Obama

19.) "...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals." -- Barack Obama

18.) "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." -- Barack Obama

17.) "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." -- Barack Obama

16.) "It's very rare that I come to an event where I'm like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person." -- Barack Obama

15.) "The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. . . . What I think we know — separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in their country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact." — President Obama on Gates' arrest.

14.) "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking." -- Barack Obama

13.) "If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2." -- Barack Obama

12.) "It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." -- Barack Obama

11.) "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama

10.) "The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln." -- Barack Obama

9.) "I don't believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history." -- Barack Obama

8.) "The private sector is doing fine."
         
                   -- Barack Obama

7) "That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know that they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserving of their scorn." -- Barack Obama

6.) "It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!" -- Barack Obama quotes Rev. Wright

5.) "You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Obama

4.) "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." -- Barack Obama

3.) "I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." -- Barack Obama

2.) "...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." -- Barack Obama

1.) "You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." -- Barack Obama

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http://mashable.com/2012/10/11/phone-bill-quadrillion-dollars/

So Solenne San Jose (real name despite my protestations) cancelled her account with a French phone company. Her final bill: $15,000,000,000,000,000 US.  And now she's whining.

First of all, she had no business doing business with a French phone company.  I don't care that she's French.  It's a socialist government now, and so she should expect the government to hikes taxes.  This is what Skype is for.

Also, stuff gets past you.  You get on the phone and blah blah blah with your friends, download a few hundred videos, and before you know it:  

$15 quadrillion dollars.  



And there is this little tidbit:

New iPhone 5 users may find unexpectedly high bills owing to a bug in OS6.  Seems that even though your Wi-Fi is turned on and supposedly connected, your phone is still pulling the gigaschmerz through your carrier.  Which is to say, you're using up data like nobody's business without knowing it.  (Whatever that means... I don't have an iPhone)

As if that weren't bad enough, Apple has unwittingly disclosed the location of a classified military base in Taiwan.  The piece of crap junk can't locate the STATUE OF LIBERTY, but secret military facilities in the Far East... not a problem!

Ho hum... (sigh) ... remember when you needed a nickel to make a phone call?  I miss those days.

[Warph]

Before:

Fox News has learned that Vice President Biden was "all over the place" in his first debate prep. A senior Democratic source said that is why top Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod and other senior aides "took over" the preparations.

The word is Biden is a little rusty after four years since his last debate.

But the campaign ran through at least six prep sessions, and top Democrats now say they are confident the vice president is ready to face Paul Ryan onstage Thursday night in Kentucky.



After:

Top Fox News analysts reacted to the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. Hear what they had to say about the candidates' performances below! :

In declaring a debate winner, Charles Krauthammer said, "If you heard it on radio, Biden won. If you watched it on television, he lost."

Fox News' Chris Wallace had harsh words for Biden, saying, "I don't believe I have ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan."

Brit Hume, too, discussed Biden's demeanor, saying, "I thought it was unattractive, I thought it was rude.  It looked like a cranky old man, to some extent, debating a polite young man."

While Democratic strategist Joe Trippi believes that Joe Biden performed strongly, he thinks the performance was "diminished by the smirking.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/11/fox-news-analysts-on-who-won-the-vice-presidential-debate/#more-96833[/font][/size]



Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes;

Update: CNN insta-poll of undecideds shows tie

Update: Ryan wins CNN insta-poll overall, 48/44

I expected "table-pounding atmospherics" from Biden but I didn't expect him to act like a total jackhole for fully 90 minutes.  Give him credit for knowing his target audience, though: His task tonight was to get the left excited again after Obama fell into a semi-coma in Denver, and evincing utter disdain for Ryan... grimacing, shouting, laughing inappropriately, constantly interrupting, the total jackhole experience... is just what the doctor ordered.  He might have irritated independents and undecideds, but probably not so much that it'll change people's votes.



The Democrats needed someone to go out there and clown for liberals, and if there's one thing this guy knows, it's clowning.

Here's a taste of what I mean via Mediaite, centered around one of Ryan's more cutting lines of the evening. For what it's worth, the media lost patience with Biden's shtick too, but I doubt that'll cost him anything tomorrow. And yes, needless to say, Raddatz was also terrible.

Exit quotation from Greg Gutfeld: "Biden is the drunk at the bar; Martha is the unhappy bartender, and Ryan is the unfortunate salesman caught in the middle."