Assoluta Tranquillita: Romney and Obama : Support our Troops?

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Romney and Obama : Support our Troops?

In the current election frenzy in America, one of the areas the msm has seemed to ignore is the health of our Military. As the proposed budget cuts slash to the core of the US Military, Obama continues to use the Troops as props in his photo ops. During any election campaign, the voters are used to grandiose promises, short on details. However, this last week BHO missed one of his own deadlines for sequestration:

White House Misses Deadline for Sequestration Report

Sep. 7, 2012 - 01:00PM |
By STEPHEN LOSEY and ANDY MEDICI
The Obama administration has missed a key deadline to submit a report on how it would implement $109 billion in across-the-board budget cuts scheduled to take effect Jan. 2.
The administration was supposed to send to Congress by Sept. 6 detailed information on every account that would be affected under sequestration, including how much money would be cut from every program, project and activity level.
But that day, the administration told Federal Times the report will come “late next week.” The administration said it needed more time to address the complex issues involved in planning for sequestration.
Washington is hungry for details on how the government plans to absorb these cuts, which are required by last year’s Budget Control Act unless Congress and the administration agree on a path to reducing budget deficits by $1.2 trillion through 2021. Congress last month passed the Sequestration Transparency Act mandating the report. But there have been few official details released so far....

More here.

As the incumbent, Obama now has a record to run on/against, in terms of his support of our Military - quite apart from his singlehanded killing of Osama bin Laden:

Candidates Draw Battle Lines Over DoD Spending

Sep. 8, 2012 - 01:35PM |
By JOHN T. BENNETT

As both U.S. presidential candidates return to the campaign trail after their conventions, the competing sides have drawn a bright line between how they view defense spending.
On the Democrats’ side, President Barack Obama believes additional defense cuts must be part of a broader deficit-reduction plan. Republican Mitt Romney does not, and instead wants to increase military spending.
During a prime-time address Sept. 6 at the Democratic National Convention, Obama said voters have “a choice” about their next commander in chief: a proven commodity or a novice.
“My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy,” Obama said of Romney and House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, D-Wis. “But from all that we’ve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly.”
Obama drew a sharp contrast with Romney over Pentagon spending, bashing Romney for plans to substantially increase Pentagon spending as the nation’s finances remain bleak.
“While my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs don’t even want, I will use the money we’re no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work,” Obama said...

I presume to include those redeployed, and Veterans who get to join the unemployment lines, but I digress. Read the rest here.

And then there is Romney:

I Will Maintain Our Military Might