Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121024:05:51:00
Challenges the world is presenting. they always claim we need to ramp up military spending. what mitt romney is doing now is strict out of the george w. bush campaign and the ronald reagan campaign. and what president obama said about it last night is pretty much straight out of this book. in making the point that it is pointless to compare individual budget items in the defense department budget over time, like, say, the number of ships in 1916 versus the number of ships today, al franken, then still a comedy writer, produced a graph comparing the defense budgets of abraham lincoln and ronald...