“There are plenty of fine people who could lead this country, but what you need are people who, when they say they’re going to do something, they go do it,” Rep. Paul Ryan said in debate tonight. “My record stands...
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan participate in the vice presidential debate October 11, 2012, moderated by Martha Raddatz
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Biden-Ryan Reconcile Their Religion With Their Stances on Abortion
Paul Ryan recalls seeing an ultrasound image of his unborn child. “We saw that heartbeat… Our little baby was in the shape of a bean,” he says, explaining that to this day the child’s nickname is “Bean.” “I believe that...
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Representative Paul Ryan during the October 11, 2012 vice presidential debate.
Biden-Ryan: American Intervention
“It’s a different country,” Vice President Joe Biden says of Syria, when asked why the U.S. is not involved there the way it was in the overthrow of the regime in Libya. “All this loose talk of Governor Romney, and...
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Vice President Joe Biden during the October 11, 2012 vice presidential debate
Laughing Biden to Cool Ryan: `Now You’re Jack Kennedy’
“The middle class will pay less, and people making more than $1 million will pay more,” Vice President Joe Biden says of the Obama administration’s plan for taxes. “We want to extend permanently the middle-class tax cut,” Biden says, accusing...
Read more »Ryan’s Cool, Biden’s Rolling Eyes
Barbs are flying and eyes are rolling. But someone is keeping his cool. Vice President Joe Biden, who debated Republican Sarah Palin in 2008, says he’s hearing her words again in his debate tonight with Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican Mitt...
Read more »Biden Raises Romney’s 47% — Ryan Says Biden Knows Regretted Words
Vice President did what President Barack Obama didn’t do: He has raised the 47-percent issue in debate. Republican Mitt Romney was videotaped telling fundraisers that 47 percent of Americans pay no taxes and are victims of government dependency and unreachable...
Read more »Biden-Ryan: Iranian Nuclear Bomb
“Are you going to go to war, is that what you’re going to do?” — Vice President Joe Biden. “We’re going to prevent war.” — Rep. Paul Ryan. With the Republican nominee for vice president calling for tougher sanctions against...
Read more »Biden Calls `Malarkey’ on Ryan
“With all due respect, that is a bunch of malarkey… Because nothing he said is accurate:” Vice President Joe Biden on his Republican adversary, Rep. Paul Ryan, calling the Obama administration weak on foreign policy. “This talk about weakness, I...
Read more »Biden-Ryan Debate: Libya `Tragedy’
The killing of the American ambassador in Libya represented a massive intelligence failure. So acknowledged Vice President Joe Biden at the start of a nationally televised debate with Rep. Paul Ryan. “It was. It was a tragedy.” “I can...
Read more »Florida: Eight-Point Gap in Two Polls
In Florida, President Barack Obama is either one point ahead of Republican Mitt Romney. Or seven points behind him. Pick a poll. A survey conducted this week for the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald found 51 percent of likely...
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