Saving privateer Ryan
He ran rings around Barack Obama, who half the time looked like he was barely interested in being there. Most of Romney’s assertions about his plans were false or misleading. But Obama failed utterly to rebut them. Those 90 minutes made it a new race.
This week, the spotlight turns to Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, who square off on Thursday. We know what Biden is capable of, for good and for ill. His inexplicable comment last week that the middle class has been “buried” for the past four years was seized on by Romney in his first answer at the debate.