Obama Chides Romney: ‘All Over The Place’ on Foreign Policy

Obama Chides Romney: ‘All Over The Place’ on Foreign Policy

President Barack Obama in the third debate sharply challenged GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s plan for increased military spending, borrowing a line from former President Bill Clinton in saying: “The math simply doesn’t work.”

The exchange began when moderator and CBS newsman Bob Schieffer asked the former Massachusetts governor how he would pay for expanding the U.S. military.

“What you can’t do,” Obama lectured, “is spend $2 trillion on additional military spending that the military is not asking for, $5 trillion on tax cuts, you say that you’re going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions without saying what those loopholes and deductions are, and then somehow you’re also going to deal with the deficit that we’ve already got. The math simply doesn’t work.” Read more…