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TRENDING: 'Horses and bayonets' shows Obama's debate strategy
CNN ^ | 10/22/2012 | Kevin Liptak

Posted on 10/22/2012 10:30:02 PM PDT by Qbert

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To: Qbert

I may be wrong, but from what I remember, back in 1916 we were not ready for World War I. We had very little of anything militarily.


61 posted on 10/23/2012 5:09:08 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: Qbert
What a childish embarrassment.

I so agree.

Romney's performance was not for us. It was for the soft middle that he needed to lock up.

They listened to obama last night and thought "What. An. @ss."

Romney won them last night with his presidential demeanor.

Obama drove them away with his disrespect and disdain for Americans wanting a civil discussion on critical issues that impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people all over the planet.

62 posted on 10/23/2012 5:24:45 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: albie

I wouldn’t worry. Hampton Roads is losing a complete carrier group, and the non-BRAC initiated closure, pretty possibly politically motivated of a planning and intelligence segment earlier in the year are duly noted in The Won’s personnel file.

He’s toast.


63 posted on 10/23/2012 5:35:43 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: butterdezillion
...seems to be about the level of Obama’s discourse... King Arthur comes face to face with the silly Frenchman.

good one butterdezillion

64 posted on 10/23/2012 6:14:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama on Benghazi - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-aorbApBw&feature=plcp)
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To: Qbert
Marines stick it to Obama with bayonet tweets and pics 29 mins ago

President Obama’s zinger during the final debate that the military has moved on from “horses and bayonets” is under attack by some Marines with first-hand knowledge of what terrifying weaponry troops use, and that totally still includes razor sharp bayonets. OK, Obama did say they use “fewer” bayonets now and while U.S. Marines do get the weapons in boot camp, bayonet training’s been off the syllabus at Army basic training since 2010. Seizing the opportunity to talk up their beloved weapons, Marines have been unleashing a Twitter torrent of bayonet facts and photos like those above ever since the words left the Commander in Chief’s lipshttp://now.msn.com/marines-respond-to-obama-debate-comment-tweeting-that-they-still-use-bayonets

65 posted on 10/23/2012 6:19:48 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: kimchi lover

Do Democrats hate the U.S. Navy?
October 16, 2012 | 3:56 pm

A second Democratic campaign has been caught mistaking a foreign ship for a U.S. Navy vessel in images meant to brag on the candidate’s devotion to the military.

A month after the Democratic National Convention featured Cold War-era Soviet ships on a giant screen as a former Navy admiral representing the Obama campaign praised American veterans, the Democrat running for Senate in Connecticut featured a foreign sub in a television ad promoting his efforts to create jobs at the state’s sub-maker, General Dynamics’ Electric Boat of Groton.

Instead of Groton-made subs, the ad for Rep. Chris Murphy featured a Norwegian submarine. The ad maker apparently took the picture off an image website without checking what the featured sub was.

The pictures were shown as the ad announcer said, “Chris Murphy has a jobs plan, but he also has a jobs record. The Connecticut jobs Chris Murphy’s helped create are building a new industrial park in Waterbury, launch new subs in Groton.”

Republican challenger Linda McMahon was quick to jump on the mistake, putting up their own ad that calls Murphy a jokester. “Murphy brags about helping Electric Boat in Groton. Uhhhhhhhh, Chris, that submarine in your commercial, it’s from Norway, not Groton. Chris Murphy is a funny guy.”

Republican campaign officials said that the race has tightened since Mitt Romney’s winning performance in his first debate with President Obama.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/do-democrats-hate-the-u.s.-navy/article/2510912#.UIaZPGe5VnE


66 posted on 10/23/2012 6:23:52 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: nutmeg; bigbob; StarFan; NautiNurse; Nick Danger; Impy; GOPJ; Bigg Red; Perdogg; NFHale; ...
“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”

Really? Those policies worked pretty well, asshat.

I hate cold winters, but I cannot wait two more weeks until this slop is amply crushed, while also securing a GOP majority Senate and strengthened GOP House that will hopefully take a page from the Soviets and erase the slop and his four year error from existence.

67 posted on 10/23/2012 7:38:48 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit, but it's better than a burqa.)
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68 posted on 10/23/2012 7:45:46 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Qbert

Why didn’t Romney counter that to equate horses and bayonets with naval ships was nonsensical?

that is the problem about last night

he barely countered jack

he just coasted

freepers will convince themselves all is well but the polls will tighten

and they did not have to


69 posted on 10/23/2012 7:50:42 AM PDT by wardaddy (my wife prays in the tanning bed....guess what region i live in...ya'll?)
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To: albie
...this is ridiculous. I hope it’s true but I can’t see anyone casting their vote based on this stupid line. Especially in Virginia.

Not the line itself, but this dismissal of the navy ships in general. More ships = shipyard work = Norfolk.

Jobs being lost at Norfolk is already the subject of Senate campaign ads in VA. (Living in the DC area, I get to see VA election ads too. Yay.) Obama is harming himself and Kaine in the process by being dismissive to the Navy's shipbuilding needs.

70 posted on 10/23/2012 7:51:25 AM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: NoLibZone
Ships don’t go under water. Boats do.

Ships go under water after the boats are finished with them.

71 posted on 10/23/2012 7:53:38 AM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: Qbert
...poor Joe Biden...

...no-one ever tells him anything...

...Clicky Thingy...

72 posted on 10/23/2012 8:02:07 AM PDT by cyberaxe (....Uuuummpphhhh.....)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Are we to assume that Governor Romney did not know that we had Aircraft Carriers and Submarines? Isn’t that the implication that Obama made?

&&&
No, his people gave him that line to help him paint Romney as someone who is not up to current trends. He is old, so unhip and uncool, you know, unlike our so very trendy POTUS, who hangs out with the cool people like Beyonce.

Since they haven’t got anything, his team decided to paint Romney as old fashioned and out of touch. In another line, he said something along the lines of Romney having social policies from the 1950s and defense policies from the 1920s. It was actually a well-written line, but Obummer was in such a hurry to throw it out there before he forgot it that he flubbed the delivery badly.

He delivered the line you are referring to quite well, however. He seems to excel with sarcasm and derision. I’m surprised he did not try his trick of slyly giving Romney the finger, as he has done to others on 2 occasions that
I am familiar with.


73 posted on 10/23/2012 8:04:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Caipirabob

"I so agree. Romney's performance was not for us. It was for the soft middle that he needed to lock up. They listened to obama last night and thought "What. An. @ss." Romney won them last night with his presidential demeanor. Obama drove them away with his disrespect and disdain for Americans wanting a civil discussion on critical issues that impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people all over the planet."

Good points. While I think a lot of us may have wanted Romney to come out swinging like he did in the first debate, his strategy makes sense in retrospect for exactly the reasons you mention. Obama wanted so desperately to paint Romney as his favorite (and predictable) target, George W. Bush- and Romney wisely didn't take the bait.

It was a more subtle performance by Romney last night- but he was able to cast his foreign policy views as a continuation of Reagan's successful, common-sense, peace-through-strength policies (as opposed to Bush 43's more debatable- even to many on the right- and certainly more controversial policies), all the while managing to stand up for our closest allies. Subtle, but quite a feat, actually.

74 posted on 10/23/2012 8:08:21 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: mass55th

Barack Obama is NOT The One to lead this nation as Commander in Chief. His ideas are NOT about “better defense with fewer resources”. He wants fewer arms PERIOD. He killed new weapon development and seeks to drive our nuclear arsenal to ZERO. That is a FACT.

It’s about crippling this nation’s military, nothing ELSE.

Obama lies like a Stalinist.


75 posted on 10/23/2012 8:55:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: mass55th

Barack Obama is NOT The One to lead this nation as Commander in Chief. His ideas are NOT about “better defense with fewer resources”. He wants fewer arms PERIOD. He killed new weapon development and seeks to drive our nuclear arsenal to ZERO. That is a FACT.

It’s about crippling this nation’s military, nothing ELSE.

Obama lies like a Stalinist.


76 posted on 10/23/2012 8:59:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Qbert

First Obama needs to get his terminology correct. The only boats the Navy has are submarines. Everything else is a ship. He also needs to remind himself the Navy SEALS use both ships and subs to be inserted into AORs. I will bet you that SEALS train regularly in use of horses, jet-skis, rollerblades, skis, bayonets, knives, guns, candle sticks and whatever can be used to accomplish a mission.


77 posted on 10/23/2012 9:01:59 AM PDT by Harley (Those that don't engage in politics are destined to be governed by inferiors. -Plato)
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To: Tallguy

Shirley you’ve heard that sage advice, “Wrestle with a turd and you get shit all over you”? Romney didn’t need to address the Libya evil, the media jumped all over the topic because Romney didn’t! Romney had an aire of presidential, whereas little barry bastard boy looked like what he is, a petulent drug-addled liar, who tries to bully but is too much of a wuss to git’er dun. The fact that little barry reverted to his natural childish self is proof he is at a loss to be what the media has pretended he is. The mic buried in his ear didn’t help him grow up. Little barry taqqiya fool is not up for the affirmative action promotion his democrap party and the propaganda fifth column enemedia has handed to him.


78 posted on 10/23/2012 12:26:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: a fool in paradise

No, little barry taqqiya lies like a mooselimb.


79 posted on 10/23/2012 12:32:26 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

After the election we will see the new “Lincoln”movie. Reminding us, that as Lincoln began to see that his generals were not up to the task, he began to hit the books in order to master military strategy , tactics and logistics. He learned enough to realize his own limitaions, that he could not take to the field as CINC, and he did learn what sort of generals he must have, and what kind of war he must fight. To give him his due, FDR realized this also. And as an “old naval person,” he would have been appalled by Obama’a answer.


80 posted on 10/23/2012 3:35:42 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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