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Ben Stein's Diary
Let’s Clean House
The Obama Libya gang must go — along with Joe Biden of the unfair debate.
Sunday
Here I am in Washington, D.C., my
home town. Yesterday I gave a speech at a hotel in Tysons’ Corners,
Virginia. It has become an immense metropolis. I remember when
there was almost nothing there. Wow, am I old or what?
After the speech, our little group had lunch at a steak house, a modest steak house. We had an extremely capable and pleasant Asian woman as our server. She turned out to be from Cambodia. Her name was Srey. I could not keep myself from thinking of the horrors she has seen and what a great change life in suburban Virginia must be for her. God bless America. She told me she had seen me on TV and asked if I would take her to Hollywood with me. Cute.
However, today, I am doing other errands. First my wife and I visited our pal, Mary Carroll, who works at the Watergate. She has diabetes and many other ailments. I love her a lot so wifey and I cruised over to GW Hospital and held her hand. It was an eerie experience because her room had almost the identical view to the room I had at the old building at GW Hospital where, in 1950, I had surgery for a torn muscle in my abdomen. I can vividly recall wrestling with the nurse to keep her from drawing blood from me. I can also recall the feeling I had when they gave me ether — as if my head were being dragged around in a circle on a street pavement.
So, we greeted Mary Carroll, kissed her, and then we went over to Capitol Hill to wish happy birthday to my scholarly and charming nephew, Paul, and to say hello to my niece, Emily, and her astoundingly smart, lovely, and polite children Zooey and Penelope.
They were such charming and adorable girls, aged, I think, about 5 and 8, but don’ t hold me to that as an exact number, that my head was spinning for hours afterwards. Paul and Emily have done something very right.
Then, off to Oxford, Maryland, in a foggy drizzle. It was a fine trip and Oxford was atmospheric and haunting in the rain. We had dinner, as usual, at The Tidewater Inn. Crab soup. Crabcakes. Smith Island Cake. Maybe as good a meal as I have ever had.
Then, a detour through pitch black rural Talbot and Caroline counties, to avoid an immense traffic jam, then back to the Watergate. I slept almost all of the way.
Thursday
Now, I am back in Los Angeles.
Since Washington, we went to Boise, Idaho, where I spoke to
wonderfully friendly Chamber of Commerce people. My host, Bill,
took me to lunch with some super successful (really, really
successful) people, including the Governor, Butch Otter. He has his
head on right about government spending and he has no
pretentiousness about him at all. I liked him and the other fab men
and women at the lunch a lot. Alas, Gov. Otter has to take a
welding class at the community college so he will miss my
speech.
One of the men there, Orville Thompson, along with his wife, founded a scented candle company that uses little incandescent bulbs instead of burning wicks to generate a pleasant smell. The company is thriving stupendously. Another man there runs an immense pet meds company, also booming. Just great people.
There is still opportunity in America.
The best part of the trip though was a tour of the Idaho state Capitol. It is a stately, domed, elegant building, like the U.S. Capitol — except it is in Idaho so there are no metal detectors and no guards. Not any.
None.
Thence to Chicago for a speech this morning with some super smart finance people. Last night was dinner with John Coyne, witty and spectacularly intelligent man whom I know from Nixon days.
Then to the airport and back to L.A., with me reading about World War II most of the way.
The debate between Vice President Biden and Rep. Ryan was over by the time we landed, but C-SPAN kindly replayed it.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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Cobalt| 10.12.12 @ 9:21AM
I guess the First Amendment would also protect the MSM from the guillotine.
Anthony| 10.12.12 @ 10:03AM
Well Ben, if what you saw in Biteme was a "smooth" and "darned good debater", I submit that the eye product that you hawk on T.V ain't doing the job.
Time to use the competition's product.
But you're right about one thing, Ms. Raddatz did manage to give Bitme a 90 minute lap dance while still moderating the debate.
I'm glad you noticed that, but then again, I'm not suprised.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.12.12 @ 10:26AM
I agree about Biden. I didn't see a smooth debater. I saw a clown, a mean clown. I didn't catch on to any unfairness on Ms. Raddatz's part, only that her questions tended to be on the inane side.
Robert| 10.12.12 @ 12:01PM
Were you watching the same debate as I? Then I find it most curious that you missed the several occasions where both Biden and Ms Raddatz were piling on Paul Ryan simultaneously. More curious still, the 31 interruptions of Paul Raddatz made in a vain effort to help Biden throw Paul off his rhythm. No such behavior towards her pal Biden.
Maybe her two visits with Biden in Washington over the course of his shameful term as veep contributed to the obviously biased treatment Ms Raddatz afforded Paul.
RCV| 10.12.12 @ 1:12PM
Oh yes, once again it was THE MEDIA's fault that Ryan did so poorly. You guys are pathetic.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.12.12 @ 3:22PM
RCV, I didn't see Ryan doing "poorly." I don't think the Romney team wanted Ryan to get angry and take Biden down a peg or two, so he stayed polite and refused to engage in the same rudeness as displayed by Biden. As a VP candidate, he did what he was supposed to do.
Unfortunately for Democrats, Biden's bluster only served to call attention to himself, not to Obama.
CJW| 10.12.12 @ 4:29PM
Ryan did well despite trying to deal with a nutcase like Biden who made Algore seem normal. Saturday Night Live has enough material to do Biden for the next month.
Raddatz was just plain silly. We have four dead Americans and a looming war with Iran and she asks about urinating on a Koran years ago? Even Joey was arguing with her and pointing his finger at her.
TLP| 10.12.12 @ 3:33PM
CNN - Ryan 48% Biden 44%.
Obviously, you don't quite understand that 48 is BIGGER than 44.
But then, again, you're an Idiot.
irish19| 10.14.12 @ 3:49PM
Arithmetic is hard.
CJW| 10.12.12 @ 4:25PM
Can you honestly say Biden is sane or did well?
Biden is crazy, rude, stupid, and a flake. You do know he graduated 91 out of 96 from law school, and was caught plagiarizing a law review article for his term paper. He plagiarized Neil Kinnock's biography in 1988.
I did not expect you to praise Ryan, but you cannot honestly say Biden "won" or did well, or that he could be president.
Butch| 10.12.12 @ 4:29PM
Whistling past the graveyard? Your "boy" came off as rude and boorish. That the laughter was fake was obvious. As brother Purple said, Ryan on both substance and style. As to the moderator, she was blatantly helping Biden, but in the end, he did himself in; she wasn't necessary.
Gary B| 10.13.12 @ 7:48AM
The best strategy is to stand back and let Obama/Biden shoot their mouths off, since nothing but toys comes out. Romney's campaign couldn't come close to hurting Obama as much as he's damaging himself. Who do you think made more points with women and independents, Ryan or that reptile Biden? Who do you think is going to swing this election? Biden only impressed their demented base, which includes the enemedia.
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 12:50PM
"Ryan did so poorly" When you're facing a GD LIAR the like of which would make HillBilly and TrickyDick look like choirboys from hell. Ryan's opponent doesn't even deserve to be called VP since he is and forever will be nothing but a labor union controlled political prostitute. And he did well? You're a GD moron! No doubt you also thing UBL did well on 9/11/01 also, huh? Dumbars fool!!!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 10.15.12 @ 12:39PM
Ryan didn't do poorly. He wasn't allowed to finish his points by interruptions. This was not a properly run debate. Obama had his chance to talk without significant interruptions.
It's called "class," and "civility, " RCV.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.12.12 @ 1:15PM
I thought she was arguing with Biden on some of the points he made on foreign policy. He actually seemed to get mad at her and looked like he was bullying her.
The only time she appeared to interrupt Ryan was when she wanted him to be detailed about his tax proposals. No, I think her main problem was failure to keep Biden on a leash, plus some dumb questions.
RCV| 10.12.12 @ 6:24PM
You're a fair guy, Mr. Crisler, and I think you're take on the moderator is generally right. Some of her questions were dumb, but she did pointedly press both guys better than most moderators have done.
You're also right in one sense about Ryan's performance. After Romney's excellent performance in this first debate -- and it was excellent -- his job was to be polite and not create a gaffe that could rebound on Romney. VP debates generally don't do much to help the ticket, but they can hurt. In that sense, Ryan did his job, as Biden did his.
848484| 10.12.12 @ 9:49PM
crisler might be a fair guy, but you're nutz. The "moderator," Martha Raddatz, was so much on Biden' s side that she should have had him sitting in her lap. The mainstream media is totally in the tank for Obama/Biden, only she made no bones about it at all.
Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 4:23PM
Wasn't Martha Raddatz the biker chick who was sitting on Joe Biden's lap? ;)
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.12.12 @ 10:14PM
RCV, not sure that Biden did his job...since he mainly made himself the center of attention rather than Obama, and his gaffes are now coming due. However, if it fired up discouraged Democrats, then I guess you could say it wasn't a total loss.
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 12:56PM
No Biden didn't do his job! His job is to TELL THE GD TRUTH AND NOT HIS WAY TO HELL! Oh but of course his boss is an expert LIAR [as the congressman precisely shouted at the SOTU address]. "IT JUST DEPENDS UPON WHAT THE MEANING OF IS, IS" right fool? Ever heard of the GD TRUTH? Well Old Smokin Joe B. wouldn't know the truth is it bit him in his hairplugs. They got faulty intelligence on Benghazi......my rump! He lied his ars off and anyone with an IQ of -50 should be albe to decern same [but apparently that leaves you and yours out]!!!!
RCV| 10.14.12 @ 1:58PM
I GUESS so, Old FARTE!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 10.15.12 @ 12:42PM
Loved reading about Ben harassing nurses trying to do their job. He should have been B52'ed (Haldol 5/Ativan 2/Benadryl 50---all MG, all IM)---that would have done the trick.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.12.12 @ 8:17PM
All true, but I would never vote for someone such as Willard the Rat Romney. Sure, he'd do 'okay', 'alright', as POTUS: but so did Bush.
848484| 10.12.12 @ 9:51PM
yes, Bush did ok and will Romney. that is more than you can say about obozo and his "run and fetch it", biden.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.13.12 @ 6:18PM
"yes, Bush did ok and will Romney..."
The era of dimished expectations.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.13.12 @ 6:21PM
Diminished. The era of diminished chief executives.
JP| 10.13.12 @ 7:55PM
Critics have been saying as much since Abe Lincoln. Critics of FDR said he spent his spare time cutting up doylies and howling like a lunatic (and they were Democrats!) And Truman left office with even lower approval ratings than Bush43.
Time heals reputations. Nixon now shines as a prophet. And there are even a few "wise statesmen" who now whisper that Carter wasn't really that awful. In a decade, Clinton will have an Air Craft Carrier named for him; in 3 decades Obama will have his face carved at Mt Rushmore.
Lyneuss Fields | 10.12.12 @ 10:13AM
Oh my goodness Ben did you and your lovely kinds of people miss the news? Obviously between your globetrotting and speeches your kind failed to catch Soledad Obrien’s interview with Jason Chaffetz. You all should have “listened” to her question concerning his vote (along with your Tea Party favorites) to cut protection funding for embassies (and hence security) around the world—that included Benghazi. Of course that hissing snake Joe Biden—along with his other Liberal reptiles in the Senate—made sure the Bill went nowhere. What slithering vermin those Lefty Senators are—huh?
http://lyneussfields.blogspot......their.html
Paul McGrath| 10.12.12 @ 11:04AM
Are you really, seriously, going to argue that our embassy in Libya wasn't protected because the U. S. doesn't have enough money? Really?
Go play in your own sandbox. You are a terrific bore.
Lyneuss Fields | 10.12.12 @ 11:22AM
I'm arguing that your Tea Party jerkwads attempted to cut funding for U. S. Embassies worldwide. See here:
http://www.alan.com/2012/10/11.....-security/
JeffB| 10.12.12 @ 11:28AM
Nice try, but no. From testimony this week.
Charlene R. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs at the U.S. Department of State, testifies on Capitol Hill as a diagram of the U.S. compound in Benghazi is displayed behind her on October 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. The hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee focused on the security situation in Benghazi leading up to the September 11 attack that resulted in the assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens.
But when questioned, Lamb denied that budgetary concerns had influenced her decision. committee “It has been suggested that budget cuts are responsible for a lack of security in Benghazi, and I’d like to ask Miss Lamb,” said Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.). “You made this decision personally. Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which lead you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?”
“No, sir,” said Lamb.
Lyneuss Fields | 10.12.12 @ 12:27PM
Again, nowhere in my comments above have I said that budget cuts "were responsible" for the attack at Benghazi. It was the hypocrisy of Rep. Jason Chaffetz's support of a House Bill—killed in the Senate—to cut worldwide funding (which would have included embassies) that was in conflict with Ben's article.
Robert| 10.12.12 @ 12:10PM
The thrust of this quote from testimony Senator Chaffetz gave compared the ridiculous waste of money obama spent to keep 12,000 private contractors in Iraq when "...we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces."
The libs simply cannot cover up for this dereliction of duty by Obama in Libya which is directly responsible for the deaths of four Americans. The Commander in Chief and his State Dept. headed by Ms Clinton refused to transfer, after being requested to do so by the consular staff, a garrison of sufficient force from Iraq to protect the building and staff in Libya while featherbedding guards in Iraq.
The jerkwad is the occupier of the White House!
TLP| 10.12.12 @ 3:35PM
Stop it.
You're Confusing Him.
Lyneuss Fields | 10.12.12 @ 6:28PM
As I see it, first off, both you boneheads are confused by the fact Rep. Chaffetz isn't a Senator; he's a member of The House of "Representatives". Look, all clear thinking Americans know The House tried to cut funding for overseas operations but that potential legislation was killed in the Senate. Wake up and smell the coffee unless the rotten shit in your shorts stinks from all your rotten Tea you've been drinking at Sarah Palin's parties.
848484| 10.12.12 @ 9:54PM
you should try removing your head from the sand so your butt will not be exposed.
The Avenger| 10.12.12 @ 12:11PM
Hey Sweetie, I call all snobbish bitches that, maybe they could have protected our Ambassador if they weren't spending all that money on Valerie's security detail. What do you think? Ah never mind, you are a liberal, you can't think.
Lyneuss Fields | 10.12.12 @ 1:12PM
Hey Fruit Cake, if all civilian personnel overseas were adequately protected, we wouldn't have the tragedy which happened in Benghazi. And as for the credibility of your above statement jerkwad, Paul Ryan proved his hypocrisy by accepting stimulus money for his Wisconsin district. He even penned a letter claiming how beneficial it was. So sink your teeth into that butt-hook!
http://lyneussfields.blogspot......rowds.html
JP| 10.12.12 @ 2:49PM
Security of the Embassies is the State Department's responsibility. Congress appropriated $60 billion for the State Department. Are you telling me Hillary couldn't find a few bucks to protect HER PEOPLE? Are you saying it is Ryan's fault that Hillary sent HER AMBASSADOR into one of the most dangerous cities on earth for Americans with only a few Lybian rent-a-cops as protection?
You Dems are pathetic.
TLP| 10.12.12 @ 3:42PM
What a surprise.
Another Idiot, with a Blog that NOBODY goes to.
They have a Contingent of Marines at the Embassy in AUSTRIA, and they had No Marines in BENGHAZI?
Does that make any sense to your feeble brain.
Or, is that the Republican's Fault, as well?
Lyneuss Fields | 10.12.12 @ 3:51PM
It's only the hypocrisy that I've pointed out. But the problem is, you can't recognize extremist Republican lies and deceit.
Gary B| 10.13.12 @ 7:57AM
How many jobs would be lost if extremist, lying and deceitful Republican business owners closed up shop and fired everyone? What if every Republican left the country? Everyone remaining would starve to death waiting for hand outs they used to get from the rich. We don't have to speculate; just keep watching California.
TLP| 10.13.12 @ 8:51AM
Good Morning Gary B.
Nicely put.
Gary B| 10.13.12 @ 12:24PM
Lemmings... liberals... same thing. These dumb asses are absolutely hopeless. They're like suicide bombers. They hate who they are and just want to take everyone with them.
WaffenSS| 10.13.12 @ 11:01PM
The post elections in the faggot state will be interesting
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 1:06PM
Hey DA, that is what congressmen do, is represent their constituents requesting grant money. Your GD lying dirtbag Democrats are nothing but constant LIARS, but what should expect from a group of communist street whores whose agenda is to overthrow this nation? It's a question of which is worse, these labor unionist pieces of dung or the lying Monica-politicians that they stuff their stolen money into the pockets of. Four Americans were murdered at the hands of this sand-turds in Libya after begging for security help and these dog-excrement traitors in charge of this country turned their backs on same. They all should be arrested, prosecuted and locked up in jail for their traitorous behaviors, but instead they are allowed to go on TV and lie to Americans about same. GTH!!!!!!!
JP| 10.12.12 @ 2:46PM
Good grief. The Department of State will spend $59.7 billion this year. Pelosi, Biden, and the Dems complain over .05% of the budget. And you cannot find one hearing or meeting in which the State Department warned Congress that it needed $300 million to reinforce perimeter security for the Bengahzi Consulate (not embassy).
And the day Ambassador Stevens was murdered he begged for armed guard. The State Department provided a half dozen minimum wage Lybian Rent-a-Cops.
PolishKnight| 10.12.12 @ 3:15PM
Leftist/Biden argument style: Argue that unless the Republicans approve INFINITE funding for X, then they are "cutting" funds for a vital service. For example, if teachers want $200K a year and a 3:1 teacher:student ratio, and Republicans disapprove, then Obama spins it "Evil Republicans want to deny students an education!"
In the meantime, it's ok to not drill for gasoline while they ride their government supplied private jets back and forth to Martha's vineyard, etc. while the middle class struggles. hahaha! Biden is so cool! hahaha!
One wonders if the peasants who work for a living and earn a paycheck that Biden blew off as the 53% are going to vote next month...
JamesDrouin| 10.12.12 @ 6:35PM
Lyneuss, you really should get an education about government expenditures before you reveal your ignorance and start spouting intellectually crippled talking points from the mentally deranged left wing liberals.
Further, you should have clued in when those same mentally deranged left wing liberals didn't - BECAUSE THEY CANNOT - point to specific legislation prohibiting disbursement of finds for securit.
Get an education and cut back on your koolaid intake.
Lyneuss Fields | 10.13.12 @ 9:31AM
Look for yourself James; the legislation passed by Ryan and his Tea Party friends is all over the internet. If you're going to claim that video information outside of Fox News is all lame stream media, then your soul is lost. Everyone is lying to you but us is what Hitler claimed with "The Burning of the Books". Claiming mentally deranged liberals are responsible for evidence (something that is repeatable, everybody can observe and precise in its nature) is the gate through which fascism crawls.
http://lyneussfields.blogspot......gious.html
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 1:10PM
Moron, go look on your internet [ie Braitbart] and discover the truth about Benghazi. Shove your lies up your cazoo, since anyone with normal intelligence can reason to the truth about the actual events and why. Ya dirtbag domestic terrorists hung then out to die there and are now lying about it completely. Get that.....LYING ABOUT IT!!!!!!
bjb57| 10.14.12 @ 1:25PM
I find arguments such as these silly. Using this standard every politician who has ever walked the face of the earth is guilty of hypocrisy. most of them many times over. So what have you proven by this little exercise of which you are so clearly proud? Nothing, clearly.
Furthermore, we are still left with 4 Americans dead and an administration that is lying to us. How does a little hypocrisy compare to that?
Nice attempt at changing the subject, but you clearly fail.
Who Knows?| 10.12.12 @ 10:14AM
Home town is Washington D.C.
There you go.
Kingofthenet| 10.12.12 @ 1:04PM
I bet the 'Horror's' were not the ONLY thing, he was thinking about that Asian Women.
TLP| 10.12.12 @ 3:44PM
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Kingofthenuts.
Moron.
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 1:13PM
Nah, he's the.....KINGFISH [who at least had a degree of common sense]. What this DA doesn't understand is that we're not a bunch of ANDREW H. BROWNS!!!!!!!!
Paul McGrath| 10.12.12 @ 1:28PM
On September 1, 2012, under the blog post titled, "Michelle Malkin is a Racist Like Me," by Quin Hillyer, Kingofthenet wrote this:
Kingofthenet| 9.1.12 @ 1:38PM
Michelle practices YELLOW Journalism, I would say the SLANT to her work is obvious. I would not pay even 5 dollar, for her 'work' because it never leaves me with a HAPPY ENDING.
Gary B| 10.13.12 @ 8:00AM
Well, there you go. Nuff said... Let a liberal talk for two minutes and he'll disqualify himself from civilized society.
TLP| 10.13.12 @ 8:56AM
And, if you read between the lines - "Work" probably means Wok and "Happy Ending"?
Happy Family.
I would mention that all of these are obvious Dog Whistle Racist Code Words, but Dog Whislte is probably a Code Word for the Meat in the Pu Pu Platter.
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 1:17PM
Question to you and others here: WHY DO YOU READ TAS AND THEN BLOG HERE when obviously no one agrees with your points of view? Why not instead go to the NYT, WaPo, SF Chronicle, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, HuffPo etc to present your arguments to friendly listeners????????????????????????????
gene| 10.12.12 @ 1:42PM
If Joe Biden showed up with his pants on properly and his fly zipped, the MSM was ready to declare victory.
The First Debate Mistake?
President Obama did not show up.
The Second Debate Mistake?
Vice President Biden did show up.
An Old Man ranting "They have no missles" over and over and over.
They do have missiles, Joseph, but
IT DOES NOT MATTER.
1. One Suicide Bomber.
2. One Nuclear Warhead.
3. One Suitcase.
Do the Math, Joseph, use some COMMON SENSE 101, and realize like the rest of the Grownups in the U.S. of A., they do not NEED a missle.
What part of this do you not understand, Joseph?
TLP| 10.12.12 @ 3:47PM
That Pants On thingy was Mine.
I'll take that as The Truest Form Of Flattery.
Now, get your @ss over to Berkley, and enter The Contest.
gene| 10.12.12 @ 4:37PM
My apologies for not quoting my source.
I added the zipper part.
I know nothing about a Berkley "The Contest".
TLP| 10.13.12 @ 8:58AM
I saw your entries.
Nice effort, but it's like The Matrix.
Nobody makes the Jump, the first time.
Go check out the Final Tallies.
I think I might have even mentioned you, by name.
JP| 10.12.12 @ 2:40PM
Here's what will happen:
Obama will find some goat herders armed with AK-47s and send a few J-Dams their way 3 days before the election. Obama will hold a press conference and tell the world that he directed and executed one of the most daring operations known to man. He will find a few sychophant generals to grim and nod their heads (not hard to find). The President will spike the ball hard in the end-zone, dance his jig and then send Biden out to the VFW clubs in Toledo and Scranton in which he will bellow, brag, and get totally drunk. The Press will conduct its own victory parades and the Independents will break Obama's way. Obama will win by the thinnest of margins while control of the Senate reverts back to the GOP.
Oldefarte| 10.12.12 @ 3:17PM
I really get disgusted when it is said that thugs like Biden are really good debaters. No they're not! They are instead RUDE, CRUDE AND SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Beyond that, they are dirtbags, idiots, domestic terrorists, liars! Want more? How about being corrupt, murderers or at least responsible for that occurrance????????
Oldefarte| 10.12.12 @ 3:22PM
Oh and as to Cummings, no one wrote his spoken comments, since he wouldn't ba albe to READ same if they did so. He's just Obama-lite, since he didn't attend private schools on the taxpayers' dime [or maybe that of Muslim oil barrons instead]. Cummings, Lewis and the like are where they are do to their LIKENESS OF BEING so to speak!!!!
TLP| 10.12.12 @ 3:48PM
Contest in Berkley, Oldefarte.
Figure it out.
Oldefarte| 10.14.12 @ 1:21PM
Sorry, I'm too old for riddles. I'll leave that to you young wippersnappers!!!!!!!!!
DWoDiego| 10.12.12 @ 8:32PM
If the ability to demonstrate childish smugness, supreme condescension and an unparalleled level of ugly arrogance is accepable debating skills, then Biden truely is a champ. He's a damn good liar, too. They all are.
Gary B| 10.13.12 @ 8:07AM
As I said, just stand back and let them talk. Everyone criticized Romeny for remaining relatively silent during the period before the first debate. I think that was a good decision. Had he been out there, the MSM would have twisted everything he said and accuse him of attacking their precious child, Obama. He waited for the debate to go over the heads of the press and speak for himself. I assume he's also conserving his money for a final media blitz, where he controls the message. Meanwhile, Obama's campaign, true to form, is in dept up to its neck.
irish19| 10.14.12 @ 3:59PM
Exactly my thoughts on his strategy. He let the lies and memes spew out, and then in the debates showed them to be lies by his actions. Beautiful!
Cobalt| 10.12.12 @ 10:35PM
"He's a damn good liar, too. They all are."
Yes, but they are all amateurs, compared to Clinton.
Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 4:31PM
Obama has Boy Clinton beat by a country mile and then some...
gene| 10.13.12 @ 10:03AM
" Biden not know....
Biden only pawn in the game of life...."
WaffenSS| 10.13.12 @ 10:57PM
Hey Ben, Isn't Idaho where the famous tap dancing Senator is from is from?
Ralph Novy| 10.13.12 @ 11:22PM
LMAO.
When your guy gets trounced in a debate -- on both style and substance -- the only rejoinder you can sputter out, Ben, is the usual hypocritical litany of conservative whining points: the MSM is against you, the opposition is lying, the opposition is incompetent ... blah, blah, blah.
Face it, Ben. Ryan was clearly shown to be the deceptive, evasive creep that he is -- and made a laughingstock to boot.
He lost. Bigtime. Period.
Frog in Uniform | 10.14.12 @ 8:45AM
Ralph, you must have watched too much Sesame Street stuff: You just can't think.
Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 4:29PM
Who ever said that left-liberals could think?
Marco2| 10.14.12 @ 10:42AM
Obama on Mt. Rushmore? Hardly. If current trends persist, South Dakota will have no association with his memory or anything to do with those areas of the formerly United States in which his name might be spoken as anything other than anathema. The looting spree will have ended badly, and the responsible people and regions of that former polity will have since made new political arrangements for their protection and benefit.
Cobalt| 10.14.12 @ 11:07AM
"Obama on Mt. Rushmore? Hardly."
Obama will be lucky, if someone writes his name on the wall of a cold, dark subway tunnel that reeks of the smell of urine.
Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 4:28PM
No they will write his name with their urine.
Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 4:27PM
Ben, Isn't it time to cut to the chase and stop being obsequious to the "Progressive Big Government Power Establishment" ? ? ? Only YOU can save America:
http://www.saveamericanow.us.com/
ebonystone| 10.15.12 @ 3:43PM
"the Idaho state Capitol. It is a stately, domed, elegant building, like the U.S. Capitol -- except it is in Idaho so there are no metal detectors and no guards. Not any."
Must be nice. Where I am, I have to go through a metal detector and past an armed deputy just going into the county building to pay my property taxes.