U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his rival for the
Republican Party Paul Ryan on Thursday night fiercely debated foreign policy,
taxes and the economy, and Biden strongly defended the current policy of the
Obama administration's from Ryan attacks. The candidates disagreed on many
foreign policy issues, among other things - about Libya, Afghanistan and Iran.
Ryan said that reason of the death of the American ambassador in a terrorist attack
at the consulate of Benghazi was that the embassy had not been provided with
adequate security measures. Biden supported the existing plan to withdraw
troops from Afghanistan and the administration's decision to impose sanctions
on Iran to stop its nuclear development program. In addition to differences on
certain foreign policy issues, be it Iran, Syria or Israel, the candidates were
also divided on what should be the role of America in the world, although
clearly state his position of either side fails. While many observers note that
Biden spoke more convincingly, Ryan had also more than stubbornly stood his
ground. The results after debate were mixed (CNN awarded the victory to Ryan by 48% to Biden 44% and CNBC 50% to Ryan
and 36% to Biden, but CBS put Biden on 50% to Ryan 31%. Each part proclaimed
victory).
In my opinion, the debate of candidates for the vice-presidential showed
no clear winner, but confirmed a dangerous trend for the current
administration. Contrary to expectations, Biden failed to mitigate the effect
of the awkwardness of his boss's speech at the recent presidential debates.
Obama has two more opportunities to stop the erosion of support in swing states,
and he has promised to be more aggressive and less sensitive in the following
matches. Generally, nothing has been decided, but Romney-Ryan, which were
almost written off after a few flops statements seem to have recovered from the
47% impact and continue to attack
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