Biden vs. Ryan

Co-written with Browyn’s Har­bor.

What are you look­ing for at tonight’s debate?  Want to learn more about the VP can­di­dates?  Want to see how they defend the pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates?  Or, do you sim­ply want to see fireworks?

Regard­less of how the debate actu­ally goes we will quite likely be left with the choice of believ­ing the media or our lying eyes.

• Barack Obama des­per­ately needs Joseph Biden to win tonight’s debate to slow down his free fall.
  [Read more at Slate or Politico.]
   
• It is pretty clear that among Barack Obama’s media lack­eys expec­ta­tions are so low for Joseph Biden that if he says any­thing mean­ing­ful and sup­port­ive of Barack Obama he’ll be declared the vic­tor.
  [Read more at CNN.]
   
• Why is it that these pres­i­den­tial and vice pres­i­den­tial debates keep get­ting stacked with biased and often par­ti­san mod­er­a­tors (recall Gwen Ifill in 2008).  Tonight Paul Ryan not only faces Joseph Biden, but also long-time Barack Obama friend turned mod­er­a­tor Martha Rad­datz.  Will she betray bias in favor of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden?  Even Huff­in­g­ton Post says she should recuse her­self as Tucker Car­son and Neil Patel at Daily Caller expose her more than 20 year old per­sonal ties to Barack Obama.  Lori Lowen­thal Mar­cus, at Jew­ish Press, takes this fur­ther by offer­ing more details to clar­ify the con­flict of inter­est and the appar­ent col­lab­o­ra­tion of ABC.  Read more at Meme­o­ran­dum.  On the other hand, for all of Jim Lehrer’s efforts, it didn’t help Obama much last week. [See Todd Kin­sey or ABC News]
   

Please post your thoughts in the run-up to the debate and live blog your com­ments dur­ing the debate and after­ward.
 
 
This arti­cle is also pub­lished, with per­mis­sion, at NoQuar­terUSA.
 
 
Matthew Weaver is president/CEO of Project Weavers, which offers project man­age­ment train­ing and PMP exam prep courses.