are going to be more older people than younger people. it s not like the financial worries are irrelevant. you know what i found interesting in the broad context of the debate when we talk about social insurance which has been the central theme in a weird way even though joblessness is rampant and we have this, is that people have different conceptions of those two programs as essentially there s an account somewhere with my name on it because you get the statement from the social security administration and because when you get your paycheck it says this is how much you put in social security, this is how much you put into medicare, other government programs, that s just government, right? people feel they have an ownership of those social insurance programs. it actually means that people who are ideologically exposed to not like redistribution love those programs. you see interviews with republicans all the time around keep the government hands off my medicare, that s my i have p
and the family car to do an experiment. we put a week of her family s smelly stuff all in at once to prove that febreze car vent clips could eliminate the odor. then we brought her family to our test facility to see if it worked. [ woman ] take a deep breath, tell me what you smell. something fresh. a beach. a clean house. my new car. [ woman ] go ahead and take your blindfolds off. oh!! hahahaha!!! look at all this garbage!!! [ male announcer ] febreze car. eliminates odors for continuous freshness, so you can breathe happy. we re talking about abortion entering the debate for the first time in the first two debates. we ve seen about an hour into the debate on thursday night with martha raddatz and each of the ryan and biden both gave responses outlining pro life and pro choice positions. then there was a discussion of roe v. wade and the court. we ve talked about this.
assassination attempt in bends. i am joined by richard kim, my colleague. goldie tailor, contributor to our sister website, amy davidson, senior editor at the new yorker. author of the close read blog at the new yorker .com which has been absolutely essential reading for the last few months. the close read at the new yorker .com. michael moynihan. cultural news editor at newsweek and the daily beast. fantastic to have you all here. thursday s debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan was a substantive contest between two men who were well briefed and on their game. conventional wisdom was twofold. biden needed to calm democrats. he needed to set the stage for his boss to regain his footing during his second debate with mitt romney this tuesday. i think biden accomplished that mission. i think what made the difference was that biden was aggressive, uninhibited with preoccupation by preserving his own image and
the stylistic element of that question in the debate, i think it s because we didn t actually have a foreign policy debate. we had a debate about u.s. military policy and interceptions in a free country. that s a good point. interviewed and not interviewed. climate change, mexico. china. brazil, china, india. any of those things. i want to hear more from you on foreign policy after we take a quick break. and of battery more emergency workers trust in their maglites: duracell. one reason: duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. so, whether it s 10 years of life s sunny days. or. the occasional stormy one. trust goes a long way. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters.
this is about. for a party that portends to say that we want smaller and less government, you know, they certainly want to put an awful lot of area between me and my doctor. what i find frustrating, marsha blackburn was on msnbc after the debate. she responded to chris matthews. the other day on twitter i was talking about abortion and a lot of conservatives said, why are you liberals always talking about abortion. conservatives in the republican party don t want to talk about this. ryan had this big sigh and this kind of gathering himself moment after he was asked the question and yet what they are doing at the statehouse level or the house, it s not like they ve stopped battling. they want to legislate on it, they just don t want to talk about it. it seems to me that s unfair. if you believe in this, go out there and make the case. make the case. the state parties are doing a ton of restriction on abortion. there s 38 bills that ryan s co