Obama Disrespected Voters in 3rd Debate

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Posted by Reasonmclucus October 29, 2012 at 3:21 a.m.

On October 22 voters tuned into a presidential debate expecting a serious discussion of foreign policy issues. Apparently President Barack Obama didn't understand that fact or didn't care. Or perhaps, he decided to use the show to audition for a new career on Saturday Night Live.

Obama responded to a statement by Mitt Romney about the navy being smaller than in 1916 by telling what some considered a joke instead of attempting to explain why he thinks the United States doesn't need a larger navy.

"But I think Governor Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. You — 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 — (laughter) — because the nature of our military's changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines."

The statement is something I might expect from a half wit comic like Bill Mahr, but not from a president who is supposed to be demonstrating why he should be retained as commander in chief. If I were a Democrat I might suggest it is the type of statement I would expect from Michele Bachmann

Obama's comparison of the size of the navy to the reduced need for horses and bayonets makes no sense. His use of this comparison indicates he doesn't understand military matters. Incidentally, I was recently reminded that our special forces troops initially entered Afghanistan on horseback. I also found out that bayonets have been used in Iraq.

His statements about aircraft carriers and submarines sound like something a child would say or maybe something an adult would say to a child. I would be remiss if I didn't suggest that Obama's statement might be something someone under the influence of alcohol might consider brilliant.

It might come as a surprise to Obama but "ships that go underwater" were used extensively by the Germans in WWI. Our navy had trouble protecting merchants ships from submarine attack because our navy was too small. Incidentally I won't fault Obama for using the word "ships" to refer to submarines, but the navy has traditionally used the term "boat" for a submarine rather than "ship".

Aircraft carriers date from WWI, but the first ships used seaplanes that landed and took off from the water and were only stored on the ship. The first carrier capable of launching and landing aircraft, the HMS Argus, wasn't launched until 1918.

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snap_pop_no_crackle 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Snark and one-liners are all the Mope has left. He can't run on his record. He can't honestly answer questions about Benghazi. He won't call a press conference and take questions from what passes for actual journalists. He's gotta keep his base fired up.

milt3726 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hopefully America can see through the charade and come to the conclusion that Obama is ill-equipped to lead this country and once again make it great. Romney/Ryan will be the two that lead America back to prosperity. Let America be America again! Vote Romney/Ryan 2012!

milt3726 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The nation’s problems will be solved when Barack Obama and his staff, his cabinet and his czars, his undersecretaries and “special assistants,” are finally evicted from their tyrannical and destructive positions of power. The ticket to ending joblessness is replacing the job destroyer with the job creator. That single act – the replacement of Barack Obama with Mitt Romney – may not do everything we need, but it will do more good with one single flick of a switch than any other action ever could.

kernal 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Mittens is not a job creator. I don't think he ever has been during his non-political career. But, then I'm not including personal staff hires.

vertigo 6 months, 3 weeks ago

She he is a job creator... there's thousands of Chinese workers who love Gov Romney!

Paul R. Getto 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Bogus.

msezdsit 6 months, 3 weeks ago

worthless idiotic blog.

Liberty275 6 months, 3 weeks ago

It's going to stink having a mormon for a president, but it won't stink as bad as four more years of Obama running our country into the ground economically. I don't like social conservatives; but I like unemployment a lot less.

KansasConscience 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Poorly written, replete with cherry-picked misquotes and bad logic, this blog is little more than anti-Obama rant.

Paul Getto said it best, "Bogus."

Just wondering what the mods are doing as this one made the most popular list with 7 (now 8) comments.

tuschkahouma 6 months, 3 weeks ago

he should've gone to the archie bunker writing circle at the coffee shop or the senior center......especially when the gop donut hole smacks his pocket book......

KansasConscience 6 months, 3 weeks ago

BTW, it's Bill Maher, not Mahr.

You should watch Real Time with Bill Maher, you sound just like people from inside the bubble.

riverdrifter 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Drunk again.

Buckysbabe 6 months, 3 weeks ago

I find it in poor judgement that LJW proudly posted this blog.

oldexbeat 6 months, 3 weeks ago

every thing Dolph Jr. thinks but can't say in front of his friends that read.

mom_of_three 6 months, 3 weeks ago

I had to read this today to get my good laugh.

riverdrifter 6 months, 3 weeks ago

This dolt is one of the reasons the blogs got buried. He needs to follow my advice to Swampy: when you feel like posting a blog, just go sit on the toilet instead. Result is the same.

Pastor_Bedtime 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Another Pulitzer-prize winning work from the Republican guy who advocates surgical "correction" of homosexuality.

rockchalker52 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Obama's gonna win. Is this guy really the reason the Sioux Falls football team is on the first page & I hafta search for reader blogs?

jafs 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Only you could take a 52-45 lead, and manage to find a way to make it sound like it's a bad thing.

Paul R. Getto 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The problem with the R's Red State strategy? Land doesn't vote, people do. Hard to counter the Blue States where most of the money and most of the people live. Hard to get to 270 that way.

whats_going_on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

I thought it was funny. If Romney had said it, you supporters would be ROFL.

Anyway, if we want to talk about disrespecting people, lets talk about the 47% debacle? No?

booyalab 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Actually Romney supporters don't love him as much as Obama supporters love Obama, so we probably wouldn't. In the future, you would be safe to assume that whatever you believe about Romney supporters is wrong since we are nothing like Obama supporters. We don't pledge undying fealty. We don't think Romney is the Messiah or Santa Claus or The Great Uniter/Healer/Whateverer