re: #90 Gus

It appears. Anyway…

Hmmm…I usually skip over that sort of thing these days but after watching the clip, he does have a point.Yes, Obama did say that….
latimes.com

Only days before the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman was due to leave Norfolk, Va., for the Persian Gulf this month, the Pentagon abruptly canceled the deployment, pleading poverty.

With cuts in the federal budget scheduled to take effect Friday, Pentagon officials said they feared that sending the carrier on a six-month cruise to the Middle East would empty their operations accounts.

President Obama on Tuesday alluded to the decision to hold back the Truman. “The threat of these cuts has forced the Navy to cancel the deployment,” he said in a speech in southeastern Virginia, a few miles from the Norfolk naval base. He sought to lay the responsibility for the imminent cuts on Congress, adding that “only Congress has the power to pass a law that stops these damaging cuts and replaces them” with more sensible alternatives.

I assume the deployment was for a serious reason, the cancellation is over petty nonsense. I don’t like politicians playing games with this stuff, it really pisses me off.