[trebb]

I think Obama’s a tool for that but his point is still valid. Romney is using a date that reflects a VERY different time of war strategy with our fleet. I agree, though, that Obama showed his own cluelessness but the lazy voter will see Obama’s point more than Romney’s in that sound bite. Remember, our culture is all about soundbites and Obama bit him on that one for the shallow voter.

The shallow voter is already in Zero's camp; it's the not-so-shallow voter that will see the inanity of using a one-liner to try to make fun of a comment that started with, "the Navy says it needs 313 ships to accomplish its mission, we now have 280 and it may drop to 200 with sequestration". Zero's quip was both irrelevant and made light of a serious topic - the Navy says it is unable to fulfill its commitments with curent numbers and the numbers are fixing to head south in a big way. Obam's reply made as much sense as telling us we could save as much oil as he was stopping us from producing by airing up our tires and tuning our cars..

[smith288]

The shallow voter is already in Zero's camp;

That's false. There is plenty of uninformed voters out there who are naturally lean to the right due to family, workplace, friends....

To claim ignorance is only on the left is folly. If an uninformed right leaning voter hears that soundbite, it may effect them if they aren't as engaged in Obama's past, policies, motives etc etc etc.