A VERY ANIMATED GIVE AND TAKE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN RYAN AND BIDEN............

The table at which the Democratic and Republican nominees for Vice President of the United States sat on the Debate stage at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky; the last hour and a half, was a place of very animated, back and forth exchanges between Congressman Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden contested one another, mano a mano, style, that contrasted the views they and Governor Romney and President Obama have concerning the present realities and future for America.  Biden came to the Debate ready to fight, taking the offensive from the outset, while Ryan though well armed to combat the Obama-Biden record and its shortcomings, but debated more defensively than offensively.  If Biden needed to fire up the Democratic base by his Debate performance he accomplished that; and Ryan acquitted himself sufficiently in representing his and Romney's Budget, Economic, Medicare, Social Security, and Foreign Policy, without giving specifics, even when the moderator Martha Raddatz asked him to give specifics.  Ryan was most under stress on the subject of his obvious limited knowledge on the Afghanistan War.  Both candidates being Catholics, which Raddatz pointed out before asking how their Faith forms their position on Abortion, Ryan described himself as pro-life from conception, shaped by his Catholicism to support the vulnerable, and that a Romney-Ryan Administration would oppose Abortion, except for cases of Rape, Incest, and Life of the Mother, (the 1976 Carter-Mondale position) citing he and his wife viewing the ultrasound of their first child; whereas Biden acknowledged as a practicing Catholic he accepts the Church's teaching on Abortion as de fide doctrine personally, but that he does not agree with imposing that teaching on those who are not Catholic, and questioned Ryan's disagreement with the Catholic Church's Social Doctrine, after Ryan slammed the Obama-Biden team of infringing on the religious liberty of Catholic charities,  churches and hospitals.  Early analysis is shaping up to as a probable Biden win, although FOX News is saying Biden's meter toward Ryan, calling it almost condescending, may have derailed the strength of rhetoric with which Biden debated Ryan.  I am standing by for the instant polls and will blog more when they are shared.............tdp