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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates |
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Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018) |
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017) |
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018) |
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016) |
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017) |
United,
by Cory Booker (2016) |
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017) |
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017) |
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010) |
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998) |
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016) |
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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2012 Vice Presidential Debate
Rep. Paul Ryan (R) vs. V.P. Joe Biden (D)
Oct. 11, 2012
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from 2012 V.P. Debate (number of quotes indicated):
- Joe Biden (22)
- Paul Ryan (22)
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Vice Presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2012:
- Held in Danville, Kentucky, at Centre College
- Moderated by Martha Raddatz of ABC News
- Sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (a private bipartisan group which excludes third party candidates from debates)
- Commentary:
- Biden sure smiles a lot. And laughs a lot. And interrupts a lot.
- And Ryan sure succeeded at looking vice-presidential by NOT smiling too much and NOT laughing too much and NOT interrupting too much.
- Biden did fine on the issues -- he responded well to all of Ryan's points, and embarrassed Ryan by forcing him to admit that there was no Romney-Ryan plan to balance the budget (Romney & Ryan say they will cut spending without raising taxes, by closing loopholes, but Obama & Biden say there are not enough loopholes to do that, and choosing any loopholes is politically challenging. Ryan's response was to claim, as Romney did, that a Reagan-Tip-O'Neill-like discussion will take place to determine which loophooles to close).
- Perhaps if one reads the transcript one would accept Biden's argument. But watching the vice president of the United States show off his dental whitening and chuckle repeatedly at a subordinate politician turned off most viewers to listening to Biden's content at all.
- The mainstream media calls this one a "draw." We call a "draw" against an incumbent vice president a victory for his challenger.
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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Joe Biden: I accept church rule personally, but not in public life.
Joe Biden: No church needs to provide contraception under ObamaCare.
Joe Biden: Romney will appoint pro-life Justice; Obama will not.
Paul Ryan: Private & public life inseparable on faith & life issues.
Paul Ryan: Judges shouldn't decide abortion; Congress should.
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Budget & Economy
Joe Biden: $90B stimulus program had only 0.4% waste.
Joe Biden: We inherited a god-awful mess; just level the playing field.
Paul Ryan: A debt crisis is coming; we need leadership.
Paul Ryan: Real reforms for a real recovery for every American.
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Corporations
Joe Biden: Same rules for Wall Street as for Main Street.
Paul Ryan: Raising corporate tax will cost us 710,000 jobs.
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Environment
Paul Ryan: Deficit from "green pork": cronyism on windmills.
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Foreign Policy
Paul Ryan: Apologize for bad acts, but don't apologize for our values.
Paul Ryan: Equivocating makes our enemies more likely to attack us.
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Health Care
Joe Biden: Those near doughnut hole you get $600 more for Rx benefits.
Joe Biden: Medicare gives seniors choice, even if Rx prices negotiated.
Paul Ryan: Honor our Medicare promise by reforming system for young.
Paul Ryan: Nobody is proposing vouchers; it's a check in the mailbox.
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Homeland Security
Joe Biden: We should not cut embassy security funding.
Joe Biden: National debt comes from putting two wars on a credit card.
Joe Biden: Special Forces instead of M1 tanks.
Joe Biden: Caring for veterans is our only sacred obligation.
Paul Ryan: We shouldn't cut 80,000 soldiers; it invites weakness.
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Jobs
Joe Biden: We can & will get unemployment under 6%.
Paul Ryan: This is not what a real recovery looks like.
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Social Security
Joe Biden: Where would elderly be now if funds were in stock market?
Paul Ryan: Voluntary privatization for younger workers.
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Tax Reform
Paul Ryan: FactCheck: JFK cut rates by 20%, but from twice today's rate.
Paul Ryan: OpEd: plenty of tax loopholes; but mostly for middle class.
Joe Biden: Millionaires pay more; middle class pays less.
Joe Biden: Not mathematically possible to cut $5T in loopholes.
Paul Ryan: Tax cuts grow the economy and create jobs.
Paul Ryan: 20% across-the-board tax cut via bipartisan negotiation.
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War & Peace
Joe Biden: Iran has some fissile material, but no nuclear weapons.
Joe Biden: Out of Iraq as promised; out of Afghanistan soon.
Joe Biden: Iran Sanctions are most crippling in history.
Joe Biden: Iran is not close to nuclear weapons; stop the bluster.
Joe Biden: Out of Afghanistan in 2014, period.
Joe Biden: Syria not like Libya; intervention would ignite the region.
Paul Ryan: Why didn't we prepare for embassy attack in Libya?
Paul Ryan: US needs credibility to have an effect on Iranian nukes.
Paul Ryan: Nuclear Iran is worse than war.
Paul Ryan: Make Afghan withdrawal succeed by providing resources.
Paul Ryan: No boots on the ground in Syria, but stop acting thru UN.
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The above quotations are from 2012 Vice Presidential Debate
Rep. Paul Ryan (R) vs. V.P. Joe Biden (D)
Oct. 11, 2012.
2012 Presidential General Election:
- Third and final Obama-Romney debate, Oct. 22, 2012
- Second Obama-Romney debate, Oct. 16, 2012
- Biden-Ryan V.P. debate, Oct. 11, 2012
- First Obama-Romney debate, Oct. 3, 2012
- Obama-Romney Univision Interviews, Sept. 19, 2012
- Obama-Romney Science Debate, Sept. 4, 2012
- 2012 Presidential General Election Archives
- 2011 Presidential Primary Archives
- GOP Primary Debates, 2011-2012
- Presidential website excerpts
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