Monday, October 22, 2012

Horses & Bayonets!

The Best Debate Answer ever:

 PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Bob, I need to comment on this.  First of all this sequester is not something I proposed, it is something Congress proposed.  It will not happen.  The budget we’re talking about is not reducing our military spending, it’s 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 has changed.  We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them, we have these ships that go under water, nuclear submarines, and so the question is not a game of battleship where we’re counting 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 in our troops that also makes sure that our veterans have the kind of support that they need when they come home, and that is not reflected in the kind of budget that you’re putting forward because it just doesn’t work. We visited the web site quite a bit, and it still doesn’t work.







3 comments:

  1. Booyah!

    Now THAT is a Commander In Chief.

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  2. Reince Priebus tweeted that this was a Romney victory. God does Wisconsin have the biggest dopesin Washington.

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  3. Romney needs a geography lesson. Obama is right....We aren't playing Battleship. More is not necessarily better when we have a sophisticated arsenal. The joint chiefs know what they need.

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