obama is a shock. it s one of those kids will be studying 20 years from now. mitt romney gave a great comparison to the current military versus 100 years ago. barack obama was prepared. let s listen. i think governor romney hasn t spent time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy. there are fewer ships than we did in 1916. we have fewer horses and bay onetts because nature of the military change. we have aircraft carriers and ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines the question is not a game of battleship we re counting ships. it s what are our capabilities? i think mitt romney s comparisons were unfair, technology has advanced and we can do more with less. as long as we re focused and going in the right direction that is what matters. right. and in 1d 18 my grandfather
a winning issue with voters. economy is moving numbers, not libya. the governor wanted to focus on other things rather than get into a lengthy litigation on the timeline. the other explanation which may be the most plausible one, the last time he mentioned this at a debate it blew up in his face and hasn t talked about it on the campaign trail ever since. for context i spoke to senator john mccain who told me i would have hammered the president on the libya timeline, martha. martha: hindsight is always 20/20, john. thanks very much. bill: looking in the rear view mirror. romney s running mate congressman paul ryan hitting good morning america today applauding his boss s performance. look i think president obama spent half the time attacking mitt romney not offering a new vision and here is romney said here is how we do better job in iran policy and here is what we should have done in all the other areas and more importantly i think he gave a great job articulating a vision for americ
president obama won tonight s debate. 23% said mitt romney won tonight s debate and 24% scored it as a tie. lawrence o donnell is in the spin room with john kerry whose twitter feed has become way more interesting. lawrence? thank, rachel. you played mitt romney in the debate prep. ex sor sichl tomorrow. we re finished. when you were playing mitt romney, did you say we are going to be out of afghanistan by 2014? no. why didn t you say that? because mitt romney hasn t said it and he s never said it. i mean, my head is dizzy tonight trying to follow mitt romney. you were shocked when you heard him say it again. i was. because weeks ago mitt romney said, i m going to listen to the generals. you made a mistake, mr. president, to set a date certain. you never should have announced
held onto him tight and kept him in his grip. he got him to back this 800 ship navy. take a look at this. you can have the first grab at this. this is when the president used some real humor. it has to do with the back and forth on the military budget and the navy. obama had one of his strongest lines of the night. it was prepared but god help him. our navy is smaller now than 1917. they said they needed 317 ships. we re now under 285. we re headed down to the low 200s. that s unacceptable to me. i want to make sure we have the ships required. i think governor romney hasn t spent enough time at looking how our military works. you mentioned the navy and we have fewer ships. we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. we have aircraft carriers where planes land on them.
america forward. i m barack obama, and i approve this message. man, that s a great ad, willie. it s a great ad. we re talking here on the set. joe points out there s hints, traces in there of morning america from 1984. even if it s not morning in your country, in your home, there is morning all around you. that s the message of it. and three important words we heard in that ad. here s my plan. the president s been getting a lot of criticism for not being specific about what round two, what an obama two would look like. there, he starts to talk about it. and beginning today at his events, the president is going to hold up a book of his plan. and we have a copy of it here. the president has a 20-page booklet printing 3.5 million copies of it to mail out, to give out at events, to send to field offices, to answer people who say the president hasn t said what he s going to do. this is a re-packaging of the plans the president has previously announced of manufacturing, education,