Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan met for the first time today for a debate moderated by ABC's Martha Raddatz.
The debate started with the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi.
"When you take a look at what has happened just in the last few weeks, they sent the U.N. ambassador out to say that this was because of a protest and a YouTube video," Ryan said. "It took the president two weeks to acknowledge that this was a terrorist attack."
Ryan attacked President Obama's administration for not having enough security to protect the Americans in "a place where we knew that there was an Al Qaida cell with arms."
"This is becoming more troubling by the day," Ryan said. "They first blamed the YouTube video. Now they're trying to blame the Romney-Ryan ticket for making this an issue."
In the middle of the crisis, Governor Mitt Romney, talked about the weakness and basked the Obama Administration for its "apologigies."
Ryan thought the response was appropriate.
"Let's recall that they disavowed their own statement that they had put out earlier in the day in Cairo," Ryan said. "So we had the same position, but we will -- it's never too early to speak out for our values. We should always stand up for peace, for democracy, for individual rights."
Biden called Ryan's response "a bunch of malarkey."
"This lecture on embassy security -- the congressman here cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for," Biden said. "So much for the embassy security piece. Governor Romney, before he knew the facts, before he even knew that our ambassador was killed, he was out making a political statement which was panned by the media around the world. And this talk about this -- this weakness. I -- I don't understand what my friend's talking about here."
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