http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/2012/11/finally-the-election-is-over/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:08:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/2012/11/finally-the-election-is-over/#comment-149308 Bill Bestpitch Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:55:02 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/?p=34941#comment-149308 John, although your views are often more conservative than mine, I enjoy many of your columns, and today’s is a favorite. I especially liked, “We end up discussing which candidate had the best zinger or the worse facial expressions instead of why each believes his vision the best for our future.” One example that sticks in my mind is the Republican reaction that Mr. Obama’s “zinger” about the Navy was more “snarky” than presidential. I heard no discussion of whether we should be concerned about having fewer ships than 100 years ago, or whether advances in technology mean that we have more military capability with the ships we have now than we would have had 100 years ago with twice as many ships of that era. Why don’t reporters ask more of those kinds of questions?

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