October 11 – A Vice Presidential Candidate Not in Tonight’s Debate; Foreign Policy Issues Not Raised in the Next Debate; Will Biden Tie Ryan to Romney Tonight?

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Part 2

Then, as next Tuesday’s presidential debate on foreign policy approaches, we discuss what will not be brought up in the debate with a former State Department Foreign Service Officer whose career ended when he wrote about his experience in Iraq in “We Meant Well:  How I Helped Lose the Battle For the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People”. Peter Van Buren joins us to expand on his article in the Huffington Post, “Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in the Presidential Debates”.

Part 3

Then finally we examine what is likely to be brought up in tonight’s Vice Presidential debate and the extent to which Joe Biden will attempt to tie Paul Ryan to Mitt Romney to try to make up for President Obama’s failure to challenge Romney who clearly ran away with the last debate. David Lowery, a Professor of Political Science at Penn State University where he is also the Director of the Center for American Political Responsiveness, joins us.