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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: RobbyS
Remember, this is the same guy who wants to shrink our Nuclear Arsenal to 300 Warheads. Yes, 300.

He told Medvedev that he would be “more flexible” after the Election. Wink, wink...

Hopefully 300 Nukes and 200 ships will earn Obama 100 Electoral Votes.

21 posted on 10/22/2012 10:56:41 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (How do you insult an Obama Voter? Call them an Obama Voter.)
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To: Qbert
Pirates
22 posted on 10/22/2012 10:58:13 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Winning is Everything.)
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To: Qbert
Adding something else I just realized ... the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship, which is what the USN wants to buy dozens of to replaces its Perry-class Frigates and beef up it's surface combatant fleet, is built by by Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin.

The USN wants to build somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 of them at a cost of $670.4 Million per (see Wikipedia entry on the class) - which would constitute half of the total LCS buy (the other half being the Independence-class trimaran hull type).

That works out to what? Nearly $17 BILLION that Obama seemed to indicate this evening that he'd want to take away from the Wisconsin shipbuilder?

If I were Romney I'd be sending Congressman Ryan home TOMORROW to start talking up the matter and bombarding the state with adverts about it.
23 posted on 10/22/2012 10:58:55 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Qbert

First, obama admitted he wants to cut the navy and not build anymore ships.

Second, Romney should have pointed out that our enemies have the same technology we have so we need more of it.


24 posted on 10/22/2012 11:01:34 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Qbert

Ships don’t go under water.

Boats do.


25 posted on 10/22/2012 11:02:18 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I know what it is to be Black,to be hated for who I am, more so than Whoppi does. I'm a Republican.)
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To: tanknetter

And by the way, can somebody explain to me why libs believe all government spending boosts the economy ... except military spending?


26 posted on 10/22/2012 11:04:32 PM PDT by PressurePoint
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To: tanknetter

Thanks.


27 posted on 10/22/2012 11:07:20 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Qbert

Number of USMC in WW2 485k. In 2010 there were 203k.

So, yes, there were fewer bayonets and horses. There were also fewer MRE’s, socks, etc...


28 posted on 10/22/2012 11:08:23 PM PDT by hsrazorback1 (Seek truth.)
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To: Qbert

I read on another site that “ships that go underwater” are called “sunk,” because submarines are “boats,” not ships. I don’t know if this is right or not, but it made me laugh out loud.


29 posted on 10/22/2012 11:11:11 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Kickass Conservative

“Was Obama an Admiral?”

No, but he has probably sung “In the Navy” while in the bathtub a couple of times.


30 posted on 10/22/2012 11:12:12 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Qbert

Barry’s little SNL skit didn’t change any minds tonight.


31 posted on 10/22/2012 11:12:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (“Big Bird, Binders, Horses and Bayonets!” Sorry that’s all we’ve got! - the DNC)
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To: hsalaw

Ships that go underwater are crewed by corpse men.


32 posted on 10/22/2012 11:13:16 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Psalm 144; NoLibZone

LOL!


33 posted on 10/22/2012 11:15:02 PM PDT by hsalaw
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“Ships don’t go under water.

Boats do”.

That is such a great observation! Please tweet that! (I have never tweeted so we need YOU.)

Except ships do sometimes go underwater, like for instance if Obama was the captain and did not know how to check the charts and weather reports and causes the crew to go out into dangerous weather and dangerous territory.

Also, wasn’t it something how, when Mitt gave his powerful quote , “Mr. President, America Has Not Dictated to Other Nations; We Have Freed Other Nations From Dictators” how his opponent, cried out for Bob. I guess he expected Bob to interrupt and save him just as Candy Crawley did. HA HA!


34 posted on 10/22/2012 11:15:02 PM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
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“We had these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”

Is that sentence structure coming from a Harvard Grad? We “had” Aircraft Carriers? Where did they go?

Aircraft Carriers “where” planes land on them? Huh?

We have “these” ships that go underwater? Yes, we have Submarines, and everyone knows they go underwater.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, as many FReepers can attest, but really, WTF? This is some brilliant retort when discussing the purposeful wholesale dismantling of our Navy? God help us if this MORON gets reelected.

35 posted on 10/22/2012 11:17:45 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (How do you insult an Obama Voter? Call them an Obama Voter.)
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To: hsrazorback1

Speaking of horses.

“Hey Obama, go F*&* yourself, and the horse you rode in on!!”


37 posted on 10/22/2012 11:19:09 PM PDT by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: Qbert

In short, Romney decided to let Obama figuratively hang himself politically. And boy, did Obama oblige.


38 posted on 10/22/2012 11:27:50 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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"Barry’s little SNL skit didn’t change any minds tonight."

Actually, it did... Obama lost even more independent votes tonight:

"A PPP poll of independents who watched the debate found that 32 percent are more likely to vote for Obama after the debate, while 48 percent are less likely to do so. In the same vein, 47 percent are more likely to vote for Romney, with 35 percent less likely to..."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/cnn-poll-tends-to-confirm-that-romney-won-by-drawing.php

39 posted on 10/22/2012 11:28:42 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Didn’t a British troop get some recognition in the ME for a bayonet attack recently, too?


40 posted on 10/22/2012 11:29:10 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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