Clan 'Puter And The Debate

Vice President Joe Biden addresses the
media after his stunning debate performance,
blames the intelligence community for not
making certain he took his meds today.

'Puter watched the vice presidential debate last evening with his entire family, at least until 'Puter shooed Spawn off to bed around 9:45 PM.

Here's a quick roundup of Clan 'Puter's takes on the debate:

Mrs. 'Puter found Biden inexplicably manic, obnoxious and incoherent, all rolled into one.  Mrs. 'Puter found Ryan wonkish and verbose, but acceptable generally.  A draw, for Mrs. 'Puter.

'Puter, Jr. found Biden to be the funniest thing he'd ever seen, comparing Biden to himself without the assistance of his ADHD medications. 'Puter, Jr.'s friends, via Facebook, text and Twitter, spent the entire debate tooling on Biden.  As such, 'Puter, Jr. had no opinion on Ryan.

Spawn asked 'Puter why Biden had blue teeth and bad hair. 'Puter replied that it was punishment for being obnoxiously rude to the moderator, Ms. Raddatz, and Ryan. Spawn thought the part that he saw was a draw.

'Puter found the debate telling. 

Ryan was green, a bit nervous and at times overwhelmed by the newness and immediacy of his current position as a vice presidential candidate.  But Ryan indisputably came prepared with a wide array of facts, figures and nuance at his disposal to counter every charge leveled at him by his opponents Biden and Raddatz.  Ryan also held his tongue when by all rights he should have lept across the table and beaten Biden to death with his ridiculously fake-looking dental work.

Biden was a boor. Biden was Chris Matthews at his worst.  He interrupted both Ryan and Raddatz, bitched and moaned about how unfair it all is, frequently dodged questions in favor of unrelated talking points and thrashed about like a crackhead in rehab going through the worst of withdrawal. Biden did manage, though, to finish what he must have set out to accomplish: reassure his Kool-Aid drinking base of hard leftists. 

'Puter's final take is that Ryan won on substance and on visuals, but that Biden stanched the Obama Campaign's hemorrhaging of its base voters, providing the red meat they cried out for.