Smack Down

Obama schools Romney: Foreign policy isn’t a game of ‘Battleship’

Versha Sharma

10:17 pm on 10/22/2012

After outright saying Mitt Romney cribbed his policy from the 1980s, President Obama also issued a sharp response to Romney’s complaints about military spending under his administration—an attack that became an instant internet favorite.

“I think Governor Romney hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we had in 1916,” Obama said. “Well, Governor we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed.”

Obama went on to describe the capabilities of the modern military’s aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, which prompted foreign policy correspondent Laura Rozen to tweet, “Obama letting himself sound a bit derisive of Romney’s lack of direct knowledge of how military works.”

And of course, the debate isn’t yet over, but the site cavalrymenforromney.com has already been created.

Others on Twitter responded that the strategy was working for him, and unsurprisingly, the@horses_bayonets account already exists. In the space of a few minutes, the Twitter following went from a handful to over 500. And check out this effort from MSNBC’s Facebook quote-generator app:

Post Debate Laughs and Giggles 

Hilarious Daily Show host Jon Stewart discusses the debate watch full show on comedy central

2nd Presidential Debate

According to internet buzz Obama won this round and I will recap in another post.

 Vice Presidential Debate 

As you guys know last week was the vice presidential debate and I have to say that Joe Biden did what he needed to do. He energized the democratic base, and didn't let Ryan say things without being held accountable. I think he was very successful in controlling the debate, and now the score is tied 1 to 1. <3

SNL VP Debate Joe and Ryan

Saturday Night Live did a hilarious spoof of the debate and this is pretty much how it went. Too funny.

The first presidential debate

I'm still upset about this event that happened a couple of days ago. As you all well know on Wednesday October 3rd, 2012 Obama and Romney had their first presidential debate. I was so excited about this I actually went to a debate watch party in the city, and the one I attended actually had a guest, comptroller John Liu. Watching the debate I was a little surprised and bored. I know it's not in the Potus nature to be aggressive, but nonetheless I think he should of spoke up more. He was just very vague about everything. Even if he didn't agree with what Romney, he should have brought it to attention and made him answer for it. I don't know if that was part of the Potus strategy to wait and use all of the negative press Romney has had recently for a later debate; however, I think it would have been better if used for the first debate while it's still fresh on the public's mind. It was definitely a missed opportunity and hopefully this teaches him a lesson to not always play it safe. For the most part the Potus doesn't play it safe in regards to national security and other things, but he really " missed the ball " on this one.

This is how the debate should have went...