Comments on: Biden stops the bleeding, Ryan delivers strong performance as Obama, Romney prepare for round two http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/10/12/biden-stops-the-bleeding-ryan-delivers-strong-performance-as-obama-romney-prepare-for-round-two/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:20:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Carpenter http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/10/12/biden-stops-the-bleeding-ryan-delivers-strong-performance-as-obama-romney-prepare-for-round-two/comment-page-1/#comment-6687 John Carpenter Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:20:04 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=40768#comment-6687 Those who assume Joe Biden last night "stopped the bleeding" last night with respect to the Obama campaign are ignorant of a fundamental fact of trauma medicine. First, you can only goes at the amopunt of "blood" the campaign hemorraghed as estimated by crude and unreliable instruments--polls. More importantly, as any doctor knows it does not matter if you stop the bleeding or not if the patient has already lost an inevitably fatal amount of blood and as I said, no one knows how much blood Obama lost or if Biden staunched the bleeding in sufficient time to save the campaign. Those who assume Joe Biden last night “stopped the bleeding” last night with respect to the Obama campaign are ignorant of a fundamental fact of trauma medicine.

First, you can only goes at the amopunt of “blood” the campaign hemorraghed as estimated by crude and unreliable instruments–polls.

More importantly, as any doctor knows it does not matter if you stop the bleeding or not if the patient has already lost an inevitably fatal amount of blood and as I said, no one knows how much blood Obama lost or if Biden staunched the bleeding in sufficient time to save the campaign.

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