Not much point in preparing for the debates. When Repugnicans speak, their lips move, but all you hear is 'blah'.

"At first glance, Ryan looks uncannily like a grown-up Eddie Munster. His gloomy expression, gray complexion and huge widow's peak make him look like some baleful predator.

Wouldn’t Mitt “ F da Poor” Romney make a great Thurston Howell.

Howell / Eddie Munster 2012..........da Republican TeaBilly Conservative Choice.....LOL.

You BetCha.....Fer Sure.

IndependentinSD said "Obama/Biden 2012 Your Parents and Grandparents Lives Depend on it"

I don't think so-they are long dead. Just like the campaign of Obama and Biden.

Barack Obama:

Alias Barry Soetoro pawns himself as Barack Obama, the humanitarian, the POTUS, the campaign for hope and change. But we know better. Barry is a radical Marxist who was raised by Communist parents and Communist grandparents. His mentors were known Communists, his contacts in college were strictly Marxists supporters, Marxist professors and a group of Pakistani activists as stated in his book, “Dreams From My Father”.

Barack Obama, tell us about Frank Marshall Davis or Bill Ayers. Surely you remember Mr. Davis. After all, your mother knew him all too well. Mr. Ayers, a known terrorist, responsible for at least a dozen bombings, helped your early Illinois campaign by raising money, thru his organization Underground Weather. Tell us about your trip to Pakistan (’81) with Pakistani Wahid Hamid.

Share with us your ideals of socialism, after all you’re a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), referred as the “New Party”. Please tell us why you have been influenced by the writings of Karl Marx, the prelude to Communism. Share with us your association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Do you justify this man’s message by condemning our country by saying, “God bless America? No, God Damn America”? Was this a fore thought supporting your belief in Marxism?

Are these the individuals who have inspired you to public office? Are these the individuals who have inspired you to plot against the United States? Are they the people for whom you’ve entrusted your Muslim faith?

Please tell us why you mocked the Holy Bible and Jesus’ sermon on the mount, calling the sermon a radical message. You have mocked Christianity and this country. Barack Obama, you have betrayed this nation and all its’ people. Your skin is dark because of your race, but your soul is darker because of your deception.

United States of America………………YOU didn’t build it Barack Obama.

Liberals turn conservative truth into lies, while conservatives turn liberal lies into truth.

I'll bet on Joe Biden's 40 years of political experience up against Ryan & Olsen's any day! Ryan can't tell the truth so Olsen won't be able to 'fix' that.

It would be helpful if they knew which questions Obama and Biden have instructed the media to ask.

just one question.....who cares?

I don't give a hoot who is Ryan's coach. .....As far as I'm concerned, Ryain is only one half stop above the distinguesed former governor of Alaska.

Joe Biden's debate practice partner should be Pinocchio, no one could more closely represent Ryan.

Does Ryan even need to practice?? ...He is going up against Crazy Joe Biden! ....I'm sure old Joe just may start spewing racist remarks mid-debate and than follow-up by singing his best karaoke rendition of "It's a Good Ship Lollipop".....

If his opponent is a bumbling, gaffe plagued idiot, why the need to practice? Shouldn't Uncle Joe lose the debate by default?

Maybe Joe Biden is not such a pushover.

Romney has a likable problem. To solve it, he has chosen a running mate even less likable. Now we have two blokes with the charm and grace of centipedes.

How difficult is it to find a 71-year old senile man?

I am looking forward to the debates. I cannot wait to count how many lies Ryan hands out during the debate. I bet I don't have a clock that is fast enough to time them. LOL. Joe Biden is not an idiot and the ignorant tea baggers are just too scared to admit it. And Romney debates will be even better. Can't wait to see these two schlubs get their's handed to them.

Obama/Biden 2012

I would've thought Sarah Palin would've been his partner given how hard the GOP tried to convince the world of her intelligence much like their tryuing to convince us of Romneys business sense and Ryan's honesty..

That duck dont fly.. No body really thinks Romney has a chance and the GOP knows it but they are playing some slight of hand to win congress. Let Romney hang himself and while everyones looking that way lets stop some poor Obama voters from voting and crook the race for congress seats..

Terrible when it is so obvious that these two morons are not fit to run a house of ill repute, we know call that the House of representitives, that republicans will ignore the blaringly obvious rather than admit their party sold them out too.

I thought for sure it would be Sarah Palin.

Debates frustrate me much of the time because candidates tend not to answer the questions clearly and concisely but steer their answers to include points they wish to make. Half the time debates seem like mini campaign speeches. Unfortunately that is politicians for you. I would love to see a moderator or questioner keep at the bozos until they cough up an answer that pertains to the question asked.

David Ray Griffin

Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” According to this story, Olson reported that his wife had “called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77,” saying that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers. The only weapons she mentioned were knives and cardboard cutters.”2

Ted Olson’s report was very important. It provided the only evidence that American 77, which was said to have struck the Pentagon, had still been aloft after it had disappeared from FAA radar around 9:00 AM (there had been reports, after this disappearance, that an airliner had crashed on the Ohio-Kentucky border). Also, Barbara Olson had been a very well-known commentator on CNN. The report that she died in a plane that had been hijacked by Arab Muslims was an important factor in getting the nation’s support for the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Ted Olson’s report was important in still another way, being the sole source of the widely accepted idea that the hijackers had box cutters.3

However, although Ted Olson’s report of phone calls from his wife has been a central pillar of the official account of 9/11, this report has been completely undermined.

Olson’s Self-Contradictions

Olson began this process of undermining by means of self-contradictions. He first told CNN, as we have seen, that his wife had “called him twice on a cell phone.” But he contradicted this claim on September 14, telling Hannity and Colmes that she had reached him by calling the Department of Justice collect. Therefore, she must have been using the “airplane phone,” he surmised, because “she somehow didn’t have access to her credit cards.”4 However, this version of Olson’s story, besides contradicting his first version, was even self-contradictory, because a credit card is needed to activate a passenger-seat phone.

Later that same day, moreover, Olson told Larry King Live that the second call from his wife suddenly went dead because “the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don’t work that well.”5 After that return to his first version, he finally settled on the second version, saying that his wife had called collect and hence must have used “the phone in the passengers’ seats” because she did not have her purse.6

By finally settling on this story, Olson avoided a technological pitfall. Given the cell phone system employed in 2001, high-altitude cell phone calls from airliners were impossible, or at least virtually so (Olson’s statement that “the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don’t work that well” was a considerable understatement). The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004.7

However, Olson’s second story, besides being self-contradictory, was contradicted by American Airlines.

American Airlines Contradicts Olson’s Second Version

A 9/11 researcher, knowing that AA Flight 77 was a Boeing 757, noticed that AA’s website indicated that its 757s do not have passenger-seat phones. After he wrote to ask if that had been the case on September 11, 2001, an AA customer service representative replied: “That is correct; we do not have phones on our Boeing 757. The passengers on flight 77 used their own personal cellular phones to make out calls during the terrorist attack.”8

In response to this revelation, defenders of the official story might reply that Ted Olson was evidently right the first time: she had used her cell phone. However, besides the fact that this scenario is rendered unlikely by the cell phone technology employed in 2001, it has also been contradicted by the FBI.

Olson’s Story Contradicted by the FBI

The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson’s story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an “unconnected call,” which (of course) lasted “0 seconds.”9 According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an onboard phone.

Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. A report of that interview indicates that Olson told the FBI agents that his wife had called him twice from Flight 77.10 And yet the FBI’s report on calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred.

This was an amazing development: The FBI is part of the Department of Justice, and yet its report undermined the well-publicized claim of the DOJ’s former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11.

Olson’s Story Also Rejected by Pentagon Historians

Ted Olson’s story has also been quietly rejected by the historians who wrote Pentagon 9/11, a treatment of the Pentagon attack put out by the Department of Defense.11

According to Olson, his wife had said that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers.”12 This is an inherently implausible scenario. We are supposed to believe that 60-some people, including the two pilots, were held at bay by three or four men (one or two of the hijackers would have been in the cockpit) with knives and boxcutters. This scenario becomes even more absurd when we realize that the alleged hijackers were all small, unathletic men (the 9/11 Commission pointed out that even “[t]he so-called muscle hijackers actually were not physically imposing, as the majority of them were between 5’5” and 5’7” in height and slender in build”13), and that the pilot, Charles “Chic” Burlingame, was a weightlifter and a boxer, who was described as “really tough” by one of his erstwhile opponents.14 Also, the idea that Burlingame would have turned over the plane to hijackers was rejected by his brother, who said: “I don’t know what happened in that cockpit, but I’m sure that they would have had to incapacitate him or kill him because he would have done anything to prevent the kind of tragedy that befell that airplane.”15

The Pentagon historians, in any case, did not accept the Olson story, according to which Burlingame and his co-pilot did give up their plane and were in the back with the passengers and other crew members. They instead wrote that “the attackers either incapacitated or murdered the two pilots.”16

Conclusion

This rejection of Ted Olson’s story by American Airlines, the Pentagon, and especially the FBI is a development of utmost importance. Without the alleged calls from Barbara Olson, there is no evidence that Flight 77 returned to Washington. Also, if Ted Olson’s claim was false, then there are only two possibilities: Either he lied or he was duped by someone using voice-morphing technology to pretend to be his wife.17 In either case, the official story about the calls from Barbara Olson was based on deception. And if that part of the official account of 9/11 was based on deception, should we not suspect that other parts were as well?

The fact that Ted Olson’s report has been contradicted by other defenders of the official story about 9/11 provides grounds for demanding a new investigation of 9/11. This internal contradiction is, moreover, only one of 25 such contradictions discussed in my most recent book, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press

I would have thought they would have chosen Jon Lovitz to play his character “Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar”, remember SNL, “Yeah! That’s the ticket!”

This debate will be histaracaly funny, Biden will look like a deer in the headlights after the first response.

Lyin Ryan has already been practicing, he has lied so much, he actually believes his own lies. How can he even face his own family when he goes home, I'd be totally embarassed, knowing that everything he says is a lie.

O&Joe 2012

When I read the headline about a debate partner being picked to stand in for Biden, I immediately thought the dems had found a new job for JoJo the Circus Geek.

On second thought, though, that'd be an insult to JoJo.