This great vacume must be filled soon with the character and ability of Mitt Romney. Such a contrast in character and ability.

Ships that go under the water?? Give me a break.

That sophomoric attempt at condescension was not only totally inappropriate in this setting but most unbecoming coming from someone who holds (if only briefly now) the office that The Won does.

That all you got, Zip?

Mr. Pickle's getting sliced and diced, and you can see he doesn't like it one bit.

Snark is not a winning strategy. It is, however, a principal tool of Alinskyites, because it ignores fact and appeals to us/them, adolescent ego-centrism. Congratulations, Barack, you have the full support of the Prom Committee.

There are ships that planes land on, they're call "aircraft carriers" and there are ships that go under the water, they're called "submarines".

I can't tell you the string of four letter words I yelled when obama said that.

There are great comics and then some that fall flat. Take our President- please.
The president has a ready wit. Now that the debates are over it will probably be ready.
Have you seen the new Obama jigsaw puzzle? It's one piece.

Good piece. When you've spent your life being extravagantly praised just for showing up, you have no resources when someone finally challenges you.

Well, isn't that why 98% of his speeches (excluding those given on Letterman and the View) are given at high schools and community colleges? Union teachers and adolescents at the reading level of union teachers make up the perfect adoration crowd backdrop.

Yes, Lowry perfectly captures why Obama has difficulty in such debates. He's not used to having someone who is actually intelligent blow back his made-for-laughtrack adolescent lines. Thus the Nosferatu death stare last night.

This is how the United States Navy has to describe their business to Zippy. This is how he learned about our Navy.

He has models to play with in the bathtub after playing golf.

Ships that go under the water -- like the Titanic!

"All of President Barack Obama’s campaign rallies could be summed up in one sentence, “The president spoke, and hilarity ensued."
What Obama and the msm doesn't realize is that we are laughing it AT him, not with him.

When Obama did the air craft carriers and submarine schtick, I started throwing things at the television. The comment also crystalized my opinion that Obama doesnt understand a flipping thing about the military.

If (when) he loses in a coupl of weeks. The meltdown will be epic.

when we were kids they used to say, if he had a wit, he'd still be a half wit.

that applies to zero

He is, and always has been, a bore.

There are some gems in this article. Not just verbal gems, but some real intellectual gems.

Regarding Obama's first debate performance:

The absence of cries of “We love you!” must have been disorienting.

I think this is spot on.

I think many of us were so offended by his attempt to humiliate Romney that we didn't fully realize how he'd actually humiliated himself. Po' thing, he can't hep hisself.

#5 etc. I was glad that I did not have any heavy objects nearby when I heard Zero's snide, ignorant 'bayonets, horses, aircraft carriers and subs' remark. My avocation is WWII military history which does put me in contact with present issues more so than your average female NY-er.
1)Our Navy drawdown counts items #3 and #4. When you have to project power globally, you do need ships not only in number, but also of the right type. That is being (deliberately) hollowed out. Admiral Halsey is doing a 360 in his resting place. 2) Obama knows nothing about how our forces are trained. Marines are still trained on bayonets, and in fact they were upgraded recently. Army soldiers are still issued the bayonet knife. Needless to say Special Forces of all types are trained in the use of other, more specialized edged weapons. 3) Horses are rare but have been used in Afghanistan. And yeah, cavalry mechanized between WWI and II, but if you are in remote territory you wind up with local pack animals (ask any veteran of the CBI.)

This is a sitcom mentality complete with laugh tracks. 0 has the sarcastic, derogatory attitude, but in real life it is not funny.

To be fair, he didn't say that we don't use bayonets anymore...he just said we use less. I know how some of you felt about throwing things at the TV. I was screaming half the night at the TV and I am sure the neighbors weren't happy. His aircraft carrier and submarine comments were just plain condescending--not "funny"

I have 2 sons making a career of serving in the US Navy, brave and accomplished young men. They have both been sent into harm's way more than a couple of time. I found the so-called "president's" remarks insulting and personally offensive.

I don't know whose president this man is but he's not my president.

My President would not look down his nose at the people who serve our country and sometimes die for us.

Come January he can take that snooty, smirky grin back to where ever he came from along with the horse he rode in on.

The litany of lies from O is only surpassed by the level of his ignorance.

Submarines are not ships. They are boats. Ask a sailor.

Submarine a 'ship'? What a fool/tool! Although I am ex Air Force even I know that many Navy personnel and I screamed at our TV last night ... Subs are 'boats' not ships.

All ships can go under water, much like the Titanic, which is what Obama's campaign is attempting to emulate. Boats, such as submarines, however, can come back up.

Shecky Obama. "Try the chicken. I'll be here all week."
The Catskills can always use another third rate comic.

In 1916 there were 108,400 active duty personnel in the US Army and 10,700 Marines. Today there are over 200,000 active duty Marines alone. I guess that means there are more bayonets in service today than in 1916.

This has all the earmarks of a line fed to Barry by the campaign people to incite a base that is entirely ignorant of military matters.