Democrats, panicked and depressed after the disappointing performance of
President Barack Obama in the first presidential debate to Republican Mitt
Romney, have recovered the mood this morning.
Vice President Joe Biden, unlike Obama last week, passionately attacked his
opponent, Congressman Paul Ryan, has insisted correct inaccuracies Republican
discourse, and has sought the emotional connection with Democratic voters.
But the dramatic and aggressive style of vice and the repeated
interruptions of rival have contrasted with the serenity and didactic tone of
Ryan. After
the debate, the Republicans and their supporters have called Biden
disrespectful and rude.
"Fool," he described the tertuliana Republican Mary Matalin on
CNN.
It is unlikely that the debate between the vice presidential candidates,
held in Danville (Kentucky), alters the dynamics of an election in recent days
have equalized. But
the pace and intensity of lively exchanges contrast with technocratic debate
last week.
Everyone has their role. Ryan,
the president of defining as a choice between two visions of America, most
unfriendly soften the angles of his plans to reform the welfare state, and to
highlight the failure of the four years of Obama.
"You deserve better," said the final intervention studied.
The Republican has not shown, at times there may be inexperienced sin, and has
rarely had the initiative. But
the rain has held up well as dialectical Biden diligent student who has no
choice but to listen to the arguments of 'Uncle Joe' at the corner pub. Ryan and Biden are
Catholic and of Irish origin.
"They inherited a difficult situation? Without doubt," Ryan
admitted. "But
we're going in the wrong direction. Look where we are Economy is just beginning
to walk."
Biden has tried to redeem the defeat of Obama with Romney in the debate of
Denver (Colorado). No one has missed or Ryan
accusation. Brought
its experience of four decades in the forefront of politics. And
played the card blue collar, from its roots in the working class, effective
with groups of voters can be decisive on November 6.
What matters in this debate is not so much who has gained as the fact that
some air gives President Obama after the worst week of his campaign. Following
the discussion of Denver, Romney has recovered almost all the polls and, for
the first time, the possibility of a defeat in November crosses the minds of
many Democrats.
In Denver Americans discovered a new Romney: Moderate more focused and more
confident, friendly, very different from the ruthless plutocrat who paints
Democratic propaganda. And,
according to the polls, they liked.
Yesterday's debate early Friday in Europe and it starred Ryan Biden, but
the role of both in the choice is very secondary. From
what point was to promote the candidacy of candidates for the White House,
Obama and Romney. On
Tuesday, the two will meet again in Hempstead (New York), in the second of
three debates before the election. Obama has a lot to learn from
Biden. In
Kentucky Biden has been the anti-Obama.
In the first debate with Romney, Obama became entangled in long procedures
and technocratic arguments. Biden,
from the beginning, has launched a few simple arguments: we will not make wars
we will protect the middle class.
Obama decided not refute any of the arguments for Romney and then
reproached supporters that allowed Democrats to Republican truthfully
repeatedly. In
Kentucky Biden has questioned from the beginning every argument Ryan and repeatedly
appealed to the "facts".
Most strikingly, in the Presidential debate in Denver, was perhaps that
Romney attack Obama circumvented in some of its weaker flanks: private
statements you despised half of voters who receive public subsidies, and low
tax rates which,
despite being a billionaire, submit your income.
Biden, to Ryan, has attacked Romney these flanks in the opening minutes of
the debate, and did so with an emotional language: "This talk of my father
and my mother," he said in reference to the sentence in which Romney spoke
47%
of voters who receive a form and other state aid. "You're
talking about the places where I grew up."
When candidates have addressed the reform of Medicare (the public health
system for over 65 years), Biden said: "With common sense, who do you
trust this?"
Ryan believes that the current system is unsustainable and proposes a
radical reform which could mean the semi-privatization of the system. The
Obama campaign used the Ryan plan to capture the vote of retirees in Florida, a
swing state, but the Ryan plan would only affect those under 55.
Foreign
policy has dominated much of the debate, moderated by journalist Martha
Raddatz. From
Iran to Syria, via Afghanistan and the Arab Spring, Biden and Ryan have contrasted
their views on the most pressing issues for American diplomacy.
The assault on the U.S. consulate Benghazi
(Libya) amemanza becoming a problem for the Obama campaign. Deportation
of ambassador Chris Stevens, who died during the assault, and the confusing and
contradictory explanations, if not wrong, after the attack left in a bad position
to the Obama Administration.
"What we see on our television screens is the collapse of Obama's
foreign policy," said Ryan.
On abortion, Biden and Ryan responses reflect the diversity of Catholics in
the U.S. Both
agreed that life begins at the moment of conception. But
Biden said he did not want to impose this vision to others. Ryan has promised
that a Romney Administration will oppose abortion except in cases of incest,
rape and danger to the life of the mother.
