As seen on Twitter tonight during the third and final Presidential Debate:
John Kerry: Mitt apparently had no binders on foreign policy.
John Kerry: debate was commander in chief vs campaigner in confusion, President O won
Stephanie Cutter: While Obama put toughest sanctions on Iran in history, Romney invested in Chinese & Russian oil comps doing biz with the Iran. #romneywrong
Stephanie Cutter: Obama on Romney's understanding of defense: "Yes, we have fewer ships than we had in 1916. We also have fewer horses and bayonettes."
Asked by Fox News if he regretted not mentioning the troops in his acceptance speech, GOP presidential candidate and potential Commander-in-Chief Mitt Romney said they weren’t important enough:
“When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things you think are important.”
Watch:
Sen. John Kerry, himself a war hero, addressed Romney’s failure to mention the troops during his speech at the Democratic National Convention, emphasis mine:
So here's the choice in 2012. Mitt Romney: out of touch at home, out of his depth abroad and out of the mainstream. Or Barack Obama: a president who is giving new life and truth to America's indispensable role in the world; a commander - in - chief who gives our troops the tools and training they need in war, the honor and help they've earned when they come home; a man who will never ask other men and women to fight a war without a plan to win the peace.
And let me say something else. No nominee for president should ever fail in the midst of a war to pay tribute to our troops overseas in his acceptance speech. Mitt Romney was talking about America. They are on the front lines every day defending America, and they deserve our thanks.
Some of us from a prior war remember coming home was not always easy. President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says ''thank you'' to its most exceptional men and women. Mitt Romney says he ''believes in America'' and he'll restore ''American exceptionalism.'' I have news for him: We already have an exceptional American as president - and we believe in Barack Obama!
Does this country really want a president who doesn’t care about so many groups of people such as gays, women, soldiers and sailors, and immigrants? I have to believe that the answer is a resounding “NO.”.
“We Democrats put a $4 trillion dollar plan on the table. We had $1.3 trillion of cuts, and we had $1.3 trillion in revenue. Now, some of that revenue, we’re not asking that to happen tomorrow or the next day, it could happen in a year. This is a ten-year plan and longer. So we have the ability here to do something that’s fair for all Americans. But unfortunately, this thing about the Bush tax cuts and the pledge to Grover Norquist keeps coming up. Grover Norquist has been the 13th member of this committee without being there. I can’t tell you how many times we hear about ‘the pledge, the pledge.’”
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