Zakaria on: Biden's challenge for tonite
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News Feature & VIDEO from CNN, Posted in Presidential Race 2012
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/11/what-biden-must-do/?hpt=hp_t1
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But the lessons for Joe Biden - as he thinks about his upcoming debate with Paul Ryan - derive less from watching Obama than from watching Romney. Romney had one of the best performances I can remember watching in a presidential debate ever - it was punchy, intelligent, empathetic. There is no question there were substantive problems, most notably the fact that Romney's tax plan simply doesn't add up - he cannot do a 20 percent tax rate cut while also retaining all the big deductions for most people without massively adding to the deficit. He certainly can't do it while also promising to maintain Medicare and Social Security as is for current retirees. But Romney was good enough that he was able to convincingly argue that 2 plus 2 equals 5.