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Horses And Bayonets; Ponies And Death Stars- Third Debate Memes Explode
And now for something completely silly.
Last night’s debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney produced the last in a series of debate related memes that, in this case, appears to be a positive one for the President.
President Obama is correct in that the US has fewer horses and bayonets in the military than they did back in 1917. Romney is also sort of correct in that we have fewer ships too. The thing is that there is a reason for this. We do not need them, or at least as much as we use to. For instance, the military is now fully mechanized so our military has a mechanized cavalry. Our Marines still use bayonets, but not to the extent that we did back in World War I when our troops were expected to use their rifles as spears in close combat.
We also do not have as many ships today as we use to because of the lack of need for ships. We have not had as huge a need for ships as we did back between 1776 and 1960. Since Vietnam, the bulk of our troops and materials have been shipped by plane not by boat. We no longer need troop transports, garbage scows, and so forth. They just are not practical for our military.
During World War II, the US had a grand total of thirty aircraft carriers. Almost a third of those didn’t make it through the war. From 1945 until 2000, the Navy proceeded to decommission and scrap most of the carrier fleet because we did not need them. Carriers are not as needed now that the US has bases everywhere and even where we don’t, we just need to set up shop somewhere and fly from an allied base.
And finally, the finest army in all of Equestria (what, you thought I’d ignore the memes featuring My Little Pony?)
Deploy Party Canon!
Oh Bon-bon, does Lyra know you’re joining the military?
If anything is yours and has not been attributed (because it can be hard to do that) please let me know and we’ll either remove or attribute.
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Brian
October 23, 2012 at 3:39 pm
President Obama’s debate win was truly impressive and now makes three out of four debate wins for Obama/Biden. People seem to finally be realizing that Mitt Romney and the GOP have based an enormous amount of their election strategy on lies, hatred and deceit. From the 72 million Americans that will be left without any health insurance, whatsoever, by year 2020, under Romney’s plan (determined by two independent, non-partisan research studies available to the public), to women and minorities being drastically stripped of their equal rights (because of his refusal to support initiatives like the Lily Ledbetter Act, which enables women to be paid the same as men, provided they do the same work; this was the first act passed by President Obama when he took office) or Hospital Visitation Rights, which allows gay people the same visitation rights as straight people when a loved one is in hospital sick or dying, Americans are seeing Mitt Romney for who he really is. From the West Coast to the East Coast and all of our our great country in between, we Americans are seeing from these debates that a Romney/Ryan plan will leave the middle class being burdened with much higher taxes while the wealthiest Americans pay less in tax because “it will help inspire job hiring” which evidence showed us in the Bush years, does not happen. They are happy to disclose that they will put “trillions” of additional dollars into the military, which the military has *not* asked for, while somehow, still not being able to, over the course of eighteen months of campaigning and four debates, detail in any further specificity, what exactly taxes will be like under their reign. That is not honest. That is not American. That is not integrity and that is certainly not Christian. Mitt Romney also has the highest disapproval rating, of all time, of any Presidential candidate, ever. Higher than Bush. All Americans must understand this. The entire world hates the guy. We must be proud to be Americans. We need a President who represents all of America and that we can be proud of. We are coming out of one of the most difficult economic times in history in large part because of two wars that we are finally ending. We are bringing our brothers and sisters home. We cannot go backward. We must go forward. We are Americans. We will prevail.