Can't Republicans focus on real points? I mean, there are are a lot of real problems that they could focus on (like, um, deficits or something?). Instead they make up imaginary problems like this 'spending cut'. Jeez, it's as if Bachman was in charge over there!

Sestak commanded a carrier battle group when he was a Navy admiral, he can go on shows like Morning Joe and wipe the floor with the vacuous Scarboroughs, Buchanans and Barnicles of the world.

Zbignew Brzezinski to Scarborough on Morning Joe;

"You Have Such a Stunningly Superficial Knowledge of What Went On That It's Almost Embarrassing to Listen to You"

I think the Obama Administration is setting a trap here. Usually when he doesn't come out quickly, he'll letting the GOP dig themselves in and go on record so that then can't run from their statements.

I don't think most folks realize how much the US spends on it's Defense budget, especially compared to the rest of the world. The GOP and the MSM outrage machine is going to do the leg work on this for him.

Pleae folks..realize that the Pentagon budget is record breaking and totally unnecessary-- more under the fold.

Obama's war budget: Another 540+Billion for the Pentagon and 140 billion extra for Afghanistan and Iraq. Count all the other goodies like homeland security, veteran's benefits, CIA,etc. and you come up with a 1 trillion budget for the military. This out of a nearly 4 trillion budget.

We already spend more than the rest of the world combined on the military. We have 30,000 nuclear bombs and nearly 1,000 military bases all over the world. Who is our enemy and what is their force projection? Do we need 12 aircraft carrier squadrons to fight suicide bombers and IED’s? We have a nuclear submarine fleet armed with nukes with enough firepower to destroy the world. And they are impervious to a first strike attack! These subs alone can keep peace in the world, or, alternatively, insure that the USA rules the world. (which is more like it.)

Cut the military budget to half its size and we would still dominate the world. The 130 billion to Afghanistan and Iraq is money down the drain. Our insane mission impossible to right wrongs in the middle east and grab the oil while we’re doing it, proved impossible.

Pentagon money down the drain! Better spend the money here for stuff we can grow an economy on. And please no more bubble economies, no more globalized information age economies where our best and brightest bankers take in junk mortgages, slice, dice and collaterise them with a few clicks of the computer, then these elite schooled ,information-age, greedy, globalized bankers had the rating companies rate this junk as AAA securities , which were then leveraged 30x and sold all over the world as GOLD! (Causing Iceland and others to collapse!)This is a crime scene, not an economy! Can we go back to making things ?

Obama's “State of the Union’ speech the other week made a pitch for a new “American century.” (i.e. we must rule the world)! This does not bode well.
What? the American Century Part II? Yes, Obama said it the other day, ("The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of healthcare; the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit.")

Here he was following up on Henry Luce's claim that the 20th century was America’s time to be the world’s good Samaritan and spreader of democracy and hegemon. Add to that, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's notion of America as “the indispensable nation.” Then go back in time to the Puritan idea that we are chosen people that will bring light unto the world and that we are a city upon a hill for all to see, a beacon of goodness. And don’t forget the neo-con Project for the New American Century which promoted American global leadership. Fundamental to the PNAC were the view that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity.

Can this be? Is numero uno in our future?
No doubt, we were a can-do country during the 20th century –climbing out of the depression, winning the war, helping our friends with the Marshall Plan and surpassing Great Britain as the major economic and military powerhouse. But we suffered during the Bush years, with the Iraq war debacle, Guantanamo, the Katrina Debacle, the Wall Street melt-down.

Are there still customers for Brand America? Probably not and God seems to be looking at us with a jaundiced eye, and so maybe now’s the time to became a caring, peaceful country like Sweden, or Norway. Mixed economies with great social services. And perhaps a new UN , minus the likes of John Bolton, can become the new city upon the hill.