The Second Joust

This Thursday night is Joe Biden's turn in the barrel ... the Vice Presidental town-hall type debate at Centre College (Danville, KY) ... contesting him against that pit bull Paul Ryan.  I have previously in this blog listed ten questions I would like to see Ol' Joe squirm his way through then.  Rather than just hypertext reference these queries, I've decided to reproduce them here (and tomorrow I will re-list the questions for Paul Ryan):

1) Since you have in the past been accused of leaking state secrets, have you had anything to do with any of the recent serious White House intelligence disclosures?

2) You voted against the George H.W. Bush's invasion of Kuwait to repel Iraq's invasion? You strongly advocated the splitting of Iraq up into three separate states along the lines of its ethnic minorities. You voted against George W. Bush's successful surge in Iraq. In general your foreign policy decisions have often been sub-optimal. If you were to become President, how can the American people trust your questionable judgement to maintain our hegemony in the world?

3) You have been accused of ... and admitted to plagiarizing part of a law review article in college and a large portion of a speech by Neal Kinnock. Do you believe that this is the character profile that Americans should expect of their Vice President?

4) You indicated to President Obama that the passage of Obamacare was "a big f...ing deal." In particular, which portion(s) of this remaking of the American health-care system are you most proud of? And do you condone the manner in which it was back-doored into law?

5) You chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas … which set the dubious standard for acrimony and partisanship. Are you proud of the what you accomplished with these hearings?

6) You chaired the Simpson-Bowles Commission whose recommendations for fiscal reform many have considered noteworthy … and which President Obama completely ignored. Did you ever go to bat with the President to try to get him to implement any or all of this committee’s findings?

7) You champion yourself as coming from working-class roots. How can you identify yourself as middle class when you live in a 3.5 million dollar mansion in Delaware?

8) At the beginning of his administration, President Obama created a Middle-Class Task Force with you as its chairman. This task force was purposed with the duty of “raising the living standards of middle-class, working families in America.” Can you name three accomplishments of this committee?

9) Early on, President Obama also gave you the assignment of overseeing our 800 billion dollar Recovery Act ... better known as stimulus spending. Exactly how involved were you in this oversight since "many of its shovel ready jobs weren’t so shovel ready" … and this program has been generally deemed an utter waste of money?

10) Now that you and Nancy Pelosi have had considerable plastic surgery on the taxpayers's dime, do you believe that Medicaid and Medicare should make available equally lavish reconstructions for all their insurees?