Joe Biden: The Rudest Politician In America

Joe Biden

Chidike Okeem, a Nigerian-British conservative blogger living in California, gives his take on the recent U.S. vice presidential debate: "Biden’s disrespectful attitude and the moderator’s unprofessional tendentiousness distracted from any meaningful discussion of the issues. It’s unlike anything I have ever seen at this political level. Biden was giggling like a schoolgirl after a gossip session at cheerleading practice, and he brazenly interrupted Paul Ryan approximately 5,438,348 times. It’s understandable to interrupt once or twice during a heated debate, but to strategically interrupt nearly every sentence to obfuscate the valid points being made by the opposition is astonishingly rude."

He continues his commentary about the debate: "At times I felt the moderator, Martha Raddatz, was clearly tag-teaming with Biden. She would ask Ryan intricate questions requiring specifics — while Biden received no such tough questioning — and she refused to tell Biden to stop talking over Ryan. In other words, she refused to moderate the debate, which is required of a moderator. Raddatz allowed Biden free rein to completely dominate Ryan and stop him from finishing his sentences. After the fifth or sixth interruption, Ryan should have dropped the gentlemanly courtesy and gone to war with both Biden and Raddatz. Unfortunately, Ryan let the interruptions continue, and he was clearly thrown off his game. I expected much better rebuttals from Ryan, and he didn’t deliver the performance I expected of him."

More commentary from Mr. Chidike: "Overall, I believe Biden won this debate, but not without underhanded tactics. He won by constantly interrupting his opponent and with the help of biased moderation. With that said, part of the blame must go to Ryan. Given that the mainstream media clearly has a liberal bias, conservatives need to be exquisitely prepared for every scenario and expect anything to happen. Whoever prepped Ryan didn’t do a very good job of preparing him with respect to offering rebuttals. Biden clearly had the stronger rebuttals."