Posted at 12:36 AM ET, 10/23/2012
Bayonets
and horses! The Lynn debate
Washington
Post
““t was a little snarky,
especially the explanation of aircraft carriers and “ships that go underwater,”
but it did the job. Nothing like suggesting that your opponent wants to return
America to 1916 levels of military readiness to set the Internet aflame.
“Horses and
bayonets!
“In fact, the
idea that Romney’s foreign policy had been imported from the past was one of
the president’s key themes of the evening. “The 1980s called,” he essentially
said at another point earlier in the debate. “They want their foreign policy
back.” And when you’re done with it, they’d like that joke as well. Also,
Ronald Reagan wants to say hi…”
Cassi Creek:
Frankly, the
third POTUS debate rapidly became boring.
Obama has a reasonable foreign policy history to lay out before any
rational audience – that excludes teavangelists and GOP base voters – while
Romney has no foreign policy experience and no real idea about developing
one.
When Obama
was handed the first shot at a question, Romney tried to rewrite the
President’s program with himself, Romney, as the hero. When Romney received the first opportunity to
speak to a question, he spent his time floundering around, looking for a
pathway to throw his 5-point plan before the audience. One almost expected herald trumpets and a
fanfare along with the plan that was named but not defined or
described.
Obama finally
showed some righteous indignation when Romney called him an apologist. Romney displayed his dislike of being
challenged and whined to the moderator about being attacked.
Personally,
Romney demonstrated his lack of capability to my eyes. Reworking an Olympic games is not foreign
policy experience. Out sourcing and off
shoring jobs is not foreign policy experience.
Emulating Ronald Regan, poorly, trying to relive the Cold War is not
foreign policy experience. His solution
to Syria, pouring weapons into a conflict that is highly likely to repeat the anti-American nature of other Middle East wars reminded me all too strongly of
Reagan denying culpability and knowledge.
That was not then and is not now foreign policy.
It’s been a
horrible, four-year long campaign with Obama the target of bigotry, hatred, and
lie after lie after lie. Romney, far
from being the best the GOP had to offer the nation, the cream risen to the
top, is actually the droppings of the herd that tried for the nomination. Ryan, let’s not forget the fanatical
component of the ticket, is the scum at the bottom of the bucket.
I’m ready for
this election to be over. I expect that
there will be no clear decision, although I hope I’m wrong. Expect some sort of replay of the 2000
process with voting machines rather than punch ballots at the center.
What ever
your hopes please vote. And if you live
in Tennessee, please write in Park Overall for U.S. Senate.
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