Call it The Big Eds' Debate.
Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, the chief architect of the Republican budget, debated across the Piedmont this week.
It started when Ryan made a campaign appearance Tuesday at Bid Eds, a downtown Raleigh restaurant, on behalf of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
“We have a choice,” Ryan told reporters outside the restaurant. “Do we want to go on the current path we are on, that President Obama has put us on – a nation of debt, a nation of doubt and a nation of decline with a terrible jobs result."
“Or are we going to elect a new president who will tackle these fiscal problems, who will get the economy turned around who will get job creation and who will prevent a debt crisis so out kids will have debt free nation and our seniors can rely on the promises that have been promised to them," he continued.
On Wednesday in a speech at Wake Forest Biotech Place, Biden mentioned Ryan.
“He is a bright, handsome guy from Wisconsin," Biden said. " He is a fine guy. But I think his ideas are not nearly as fine. I believe the Ryan budget would have a devastating impact on America.''
He said the Ryan budget would make huge cuts in education, research and technology. He told the three-story atrium – many of them filled with scientific and medical researchers – that the Ryan budget would cut 19 percent of the National Science Foundation budget.
“Do you think China is cutting their equivalent of the National Science Foundation?''' Biden said.
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More so than Obama?
June 7, 2012 - 8:10am — inandohBiden said: "I believe the Ryan budget would have a devastating impact on America.''
Do you mean to tell me that the Ryan budget would devastate America more so than Obama's?
Heavens to Betsy! That must be some budget!
Ryan's Lies
June 7, 2012 - 6:36am — MalleusMaleficarumNobellist Paul Krugman got it dead to rights when he labeled Paul Ryan's budget a "fraud." Nothing in the Republican economic portfolio will help the middle class. Since the right-wing took power under Ronald Reagan, the 1% at the top have siphoned wealth out of the middle class with a massive financial vacuum cleaner. From Reagan to Bush II, the proportion of wealth controlled by the 1% at the top has grown from 20% to 60%. Ryan is a liar, a conman, a brazen charlatan hoodwinking the American public - and a probable Vice-President or President in the very near future.
Biden the Genius
June 7, 2012 - 5:32am — ClickiI love that the N&O quotes Biden for a critique of Ryan's ideas (and being handsome?). Biden is the brain trust that made a speech last Sunday on the Future- growing crops that don't depend on water, soil or fertilizer. Sounds very practical.
The Big Ed's Debate: Ryan vs. Biden
June 6, 2012 - 11:54pm — ChagrinedPaul Krugman calls Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget plan, embraced by Romney, a "fraud." Ryan's can't help it, he is a product of his environment. During Ireland's potato famine, the British stated, "These potato people have no morals. We don't know what to do with them." Unfortunately for America, shaped by Scots/Irish who came to the colonies to avoid brutal conflict with the Irish Catholics, they followed us to America and America has suffered the consequence for allowing them to immigrate to our country. (Read the Ryan Report which found egregious abuse of children by the Catholic Charities in Ireland).
I weep for my country!
Your guy Chris Matthews,.....
June 6, 2012 - 8:43pm — AgentPierceYou need to brush up on your media personalities Bradley ol' buddy. Liberal media star Chris Matthews made that "tingle down my leg" line famous when he described his feelings about Obama.
Surely every good little liberal knows that. Ask Robbie, I'm sure he can refesh your memory. :-)
BIG ED's - A Confederate STRONGHOLD
June 6, 2012 - 7:40pm — ViperRetWhat is really interesting about this piece is the OTHER piece that John Frank wrote where he commented that Big Ed's has a CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL on the wall. Big Ed's, according to folks in the KNOW, has been the "meeting place" for YEARS for both parties. I guess it is NOW politically INCORRECT to meet in Big Ed's. Someone needs to send the DNC a memo and tell them that they and the ghost of Robert Byrd are NOT to come to Big Ed's for biscuits.
What a crock!
why are you focused on Rob's crotch?
June 6, 2012 - 7:23pm — BradleysCreekAgentPierce, your fixation on John Edwards' sex life has become downright creepy. And now you're projecting homosexual arousal onto Rob Christensen? "A tingle down his leg?" What exactly is that supposed to mean? What does this story have to do with Rob's thighs?
Please get a grip on yourself. This is a public commenting forum, not a therapist's office.
Hey Rob, did you ask Joe.....
June 6, 2012 - 5:20pm — AgentPierceRob, did Joe happen to know Who Rielle is? He, Joe, could be even more clueless than..... well, you know who.
Did you get a tingle down your leg when he spoke, Rob?