Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Obama Slam Dunk!

What was your favorite line of the debate? This Obama response to Romney floored me:
 
Moderator Bob Schieffer asked Mitt Romney where he was going to get the money he wanted for a bigger Navy and a bigger military.

ROMNEY: Our Navy is old — excuse me, our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917. The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We’re now at under 285. We’re headed down to the low 200s if we go through a sequestration. That’s unacceptable to me. I want to make sure that we have the ships that are required by our Navy…

OBAMA: Bob, I just need to comment on this.
First of all, the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen. 

The budget that we are talking about is not reducing our military spending. It is maintaining it. 

But I think Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. 

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. (Whoa! Dry humor with a straight face, I just love it! The line was funny.)

OBAMA: And so the question is not a game of Battleship, where we’re counting slips (ships?). It’s what are our capabilities. And so when I sit down with the Secretary of the Navy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, we determine how are we going to be best able to meet all of our defense needs in a way that also keeps faith with our troops, that also makes sure that our veterans have the kind of support that they need when they come home.

The national polls show the race is tied up 47% to 47%. Let’s hope the last debate translate into a win for my candidate.

If you missed the debate and would like to see it or to read the transcript CLICK HERE

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