The Real Mitt Romney

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Originally Posted by Big Sarge

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Yes, I realize President Obama was just trying to make an illustration of a point. It has just struck a nerve on the military boards

At the risk of sounding like a kindergartener, Romney started it. It was Romney who chose 1917 as the date to compare a single fact about our military then and now. Romney had been playing Chicken Little all night, fearmongering, and he piled on by comparing the number of ships in our navy then and now, a factually useless comparison. Great for stoking the fires of fear, but nothing else. Obama gave him back what he was giving everyone else--context free facts.

Why do you think Romney used that particular figure? I think it was to be melodramatic. And he got the melodrama he was searching for.