During the third
presidential debate at Lynn University, Boca Baton, Florida Monday
Oct 22nd 2012, President Obama accused GOP presidential
nominee Gov. Mitt Romney of wanting to take America back to the
economic policies that preceded the great depression. In their debate
on Monday, Obama asserted that his rival’s plans will only revive
the ‘‘economic policies of the 1920s’’. The comment
typically implies that Mitt Romney plan seems like a replica of that
of President Bush.
The theme of the leaders in 1920 was low taxes and light regulation
and this is exactly what the Presidents rival is driving towards.
Obamas implication that things did not work out so well then appealed
to the audience, with the Wall Street crash and the great depression
starting at the end of the decade under another republican, Herbert
Hoover. We might not want to select someone who is following the same
path.
In conjunction with
this, another outstanding moment during this debate was the commander
in chief’s horses and bayonets line. President Obama said ‘’
let me mention the navy for example we have fewer ships than in 1916,
well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the
nature of our military has changed. We have these things called
aircraft carriers where planes land on them, ships that go under
water, nuclear submarines…’’ Obama appealed to the audience by
trying to portray the governor as someone who has policies and
principles that will bring the country backward.
