By Selwyn Duke

Is there a human being on this Earth more obnoxious than Joe
Biden? It appears that the following was his strategy in the vice-presidential
debate:

Okay, I’ll smile wide like a
used-car salesman, shake my head and laugh while Paul Ryan is talking. This
will give all watching the idea that everything he says is nonsense. The only
other option is to actually support my side with real ideas, sound reasoning
and appeals to virtue. I can’t do that!

The other thing I need to do is
make myself look assertive, like a real alpha male, by interrupting my opponent
continuously. Hey, then if TOTUS and I lose the election, anyway, I may still
be able to take a leaf out of Bob Dole’s book and do commercials for male
enhancement—of course, in my case it would be testosterone booster.

You know, as is so often the case in these debates, the
arguments in the VP contest were a bit policy wonkish. So most viewers probably
couldn’t know exactly what was true and what wasn’t. Given this, will the
electorate’s judgment as to who won come down to likeability? If so, I can’t
imagine that undecided voters wouldn’t have found Biden disrespectful and his
personality thoroughly unappealing.

If Barack Obama’s problem in Denver was bad altitude, Biden’s
was bad attitude. So while we’ll have to see what polls tell us, I myself just
had the strongest urge to wipe his obnoxious smile off his face with a scouring
pad and harsh detergent.

        © 2012 Selwyn Duke — All Rights Reserved