http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/battleground-dispatches-virginia-voters-eye-possible-defense-cuts.html

See Link Above – Sequestration a ‘Main Street’ Issue in Virginia 

However, Obama and Tim Kaine are fighting back there with the following argument: 1) The sequestration is less likely to happen under Obama than Romney because Obama can control the liberals; 2) Obama does not want to cut defense spending, he wants to keep it flat; while on the other hand Romney shoots unrealistic defense spending through the roof to the detriment of other needs; and 3) an increase in revenues from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy can offset even more dramatic defense cuts.

I’ve also heard that…

The following is a guest post in the form of an open letter from Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after this tweet during last night’s Presidential debate.

Dear Ann Coulter,

Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow.  So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?

I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow.  I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you.  In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night.

I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/obama-navy-richard-danzig_n_2005201.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

See Link Above – Obama Was Right On Navy, Says Former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig

BOCA RATON, Fla. — President Barack Obama’s “horses and bayonets” zinger, shooting down Mitt Romney’s concerns about the state of the Navy, may have drawn reproach from Republicans, who called it “petty” and “belittling.” But at least one former Navy secretary told The Huffington Post after Monday night’s foreign policy debate that Obama was right on the mark.

“I thought the president’s line was terrific,” said Richard Danzig, who served as secretary of the Navy for two years under President Bill Clinton. “You don’t measure efficacy by the number of ships. You measure it by your firepower, by the character of your people, the character of your equipment.”

During the Boca Raton debate, Romney repeated his campaign call to build new ships for the Navy and accused Obama of allowing the number of…