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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:14 PM Oct 2012

'Horses and bayonets': Did Obama zinger sink Romney's battleship?

"Horses and bayonets" became the most memorable catch phrase of the debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Monday night, as the Democratic president reached far back into the past to paint the Republican's foreign policy ideas as outdated.

Romney has criticized Obama's military policy throughout the campaign, accusing the president of spending too little to strengthen the military by noting that the U.S. Navy now has fewer ships than it did in 1917.

The former Massachusetts governor made the point again on Monday during the final debate of the presidential campaign, and Obama pounced.

"You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916," Obama said. "Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed.

http://www.mercurynews.com/presidentelect/ci_21835485/horses-and-bayonets-did-obama-zinger-sink-romneys

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'Horses and bayonets': Did Obama zinger sink Romney's battleship? (Original Post) Playinghardball Oct 2012 OP
It was my favorite. lalalu Oct 2012 #1
The GOP is stuck in 1917. Rain Mcloud Oct 2012 #2
 

Rain Mcloud

(812 posts)
2. The GOP is stuck in 1917.
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 01:03 PM
Oct 2012

The Gilded Age.
The GOP has become the party of my Grandfather(who passed in 1952).

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