These men are two sides of the same coin when it comes to monetary policy, foreign affairs, free trade agreements, waging wars for economic interests.

Cheri Honkala would have made a great contender if our political system was something other than entertainment. Nobody cares about things like peak oil, fiat currency, or bubble economics because these topics are being kept off of the political stage despite their prevalence in academia.

If you wasted hours of your wild and precious life listening to these arguments, you lost.

I'm afraid that the Corporate Party already bought this election. Vote your conscience.

Ryan needed a cut man.

Best line from the columnists, from Charles Pierce in Esquire:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-debate-joe-biden-13626962?hootPostID=082d2e2283af00275f600bff9d214771

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan?
Lipstick.

Palin - former government commissioner, former mayor and former governor.

Obama - former community organizer and former senator.

Ryan - an illustrious career.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Biden could have won easily, all he had to to was to use his many years of experience to knock out Ryan at every point. But yet, all he did was match him point for point. When he had no clear responses he interrupted and chuckled. Could have been a knockout performance. Instead, Ryan came out the winner. Just goes to show the Obama team has no substance.

Biden did knock Ryan out on every point. You weren't listening.

Biden won hands down.. Ryan had NO supporting facts for anything!

Truth won in the debate last night. Biden correctly called "malarkey" on Ryan's stream of fact-starved talking points. The Romney/Ryan campaign is on record for saying they're "not going to … be dictated by fact-checkers." Biden was having none of it and we shouldn't either.

If, God forbid, anything happened to a President, the United States would be in serious trouble if Joe Biden were to become President. He is incompetent. I think most Americans would sleep better at night if Paul Ryan became President if anything happened to Romney. That's what the debate is all about.

Good debate. I think both did well.

Did I hear correctly? Last night, I heard VP Biden assert "Obamacare makes medicare solvent to 2024". Did he mean 2124? That's 12 years from now and based on likely rosey projections.

Why didn't Obamacare focus more on controlling costs vs insurance reforms? That is, malpractice reforms (reduce costly defensive medicine), consumer incentive for everyone, a ban on cost shifting (medicare/medicaid only pay 80% of COST so hospitals need to transfer the 20% cost to private insurers - Maryland banned this?). Healthcare is 18% of our economy and impacts 100%. Looking back, was it handled properly or rammed through sloppily.

I also heard Biden mention they would control health care costs by taking costs out of the systems by negotiation drug prices, extract cost from hospitals, etc.

Just like Romney/Ryan have been clear about what deductions they'd eliminate to pay for a reduced tax rate, Obama/Biden haven't explained where these trillions in "savings" come from.

Obama has previously "suggested giving the government power to directly negotiate drug prices and allowing medicines to be imported from abroad would be ways to lower prices."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6837624

Cutting the profit margins in health industry would save money. But raises question: Should I start selling my pharma and biotech stocks?

Bummed Biden didn't respond to question "Why not raise the age?".

Whoever you think won the debate I think we can all agree Biden is rude. We can also all agree that a moderator who had Obama as an invited guest to her wedding should never have been involved.

Ryan won but he had a lot of trouble even just trying to talk what with Biden acting like an idiot and the obama fan moderator running the show there. If I wanted to watch gotcha journalism I would have turned on msnbc. And I never do that anymore. If they can't give us debates where we can hear what the person is actually going to do then why bother to have them at all.

I'd definitely would not sleep better if Paul Ryan became President, as opposed to Joe Biden. It would be like going into the worst time warp (more like a black hole) possible; the respect our country has finally given to individuals...such as child-bearing and marriage choices, issues that should matter to no one other than the people involved, would be set back decades. Instead of moving on, Ryan would work to set us back....what a nightmare it would be!
Lola

GREAT graph in this article regarding who takes the hit when the Bush tax cuts expire. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121008/BIZ01/210080318/Uptick-taxes-not-just-rich?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

Ryan won by default, as Biden defeated Biden. Somehow I don't think a giggle qualifies as an answer, or a snicker as a rebuttal. I've seen 10-year-olds conduct themselves with more maturity and articulation than our current VPOTUS.