Ol’ Irishman Biden hits out at Ryan’s malarkey

“Oh now you’re Jack Kennedy,” sneered wise Ol’ Joe Biden when Paul Ryan attempted to evoke the former US president during Thursday’s election debate.

Ryan was referencing a tax plan of yore. The young upstart from Wisconsin was trying to bring undecideds over to his way of thinking — instead he handed the vice-president a rebuke on a plate, a modern reworking of a classic political putdown: Lloyd Bentsen v Dan Quayle on a similar stage just over 14 years ago.

“Son, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”