RYAN VS BIDEN (FIGHT NIGHT) WITH STEW

So as Joe Biden and Paul Ryan take the stage in Kentucky tonight for the lone vice presidential debate of 2012, it is understandable that most voters view the job as an assistant president rather than in traditional constitutional terms. Who wants to dwell on theoretical tragedy? It is wrenching to contemplate a transition that Harry Truman described in 1945 as, “I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.”