Presidential Debate: Optimus Prime vs Dumbledore

Thank you Optimus Prime for that wonderful opening statement, let us now introduce the other presidential candidate, Mr Albus Dumbledore. *Applause break as Dumbledore walks in*Thank you everyone, Ill make this short and quick. I am Albus Dumbledore, and I am running for president along with my choice for Vice President, Masterchief. I am running against Optimus Prime, the robot who just claimed that everything wrong with America happened because of Obama. He cant seem to remember that the reason America is facing such bad times is because China declared war on us in 2013 and to this day occupies parts of the West Coast, because American intervention in the Middle East triggered numerous wars which cut off valuable oil supplies causing the gas crisis, and because his war against the Deceptions (who have now teamed up with Al-Qaeda) have sapped our remaining resources which is why our debt is so large. You think rebuilding the city of Chicago was cheap after you and your friends had a wrestling match in there? You bet it wasnt.... I am very socially liberal, as I am an openly gay man running for the presidency, and Optimus Prime still clings to the notion that Im a pedophile even though I was cleared of all charges in my trial. He also accuses me of being weak towards the military even though I chose the most successful soldier in the history of forever as my Vice President, and I have adopted his stance on military reform. All in all I am a social liberal who at the same time is a fiscal conservative. I know how to make our military great again without spending us further into oblivion like Optimus Prime wants to, and I know how to make America great again and liberate the west coast from the Chinese. His other claims that he will cure all diseases and that I would force muggles and wizards to not be united is laughable since he has no concept of how the human body works since hes a robot. I have a long detailed history of admitting Muggles into Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and this notion that I would separate muggles and Wizards in the workforce is a shameful and baseless accusation. ==========================================================================Ok Mr Dumbledore thank you for that opening statement, as the moderator I will now ask you both 3 questions regarding Domestic Policy that have been submitted by the audience. Imabench asks "As a lifelong conservative I have always been hesitant about government spending, but in the current situation America faces militaristically I am very uneasy about spending too much money upgrading our military which sorely needs upgrading. How would you make America strong but keep our expenses to a minimum?"16kadams asks "I am very pro Gay rights, and I believe that two men who love each other should have a right to marry. What would you do for gay rights? And lastly, RoyalPaladin asks "As a pro-life individual, I believe that abortion shouldnt be allowed even in cases of rape, and that life begins even before conception. What is your stance on abortion?"==========================================================================To answer Imabench's question, This country does need to revamp its military. The Chinese did give us an a** whipping and now that the Deceptions have teamed up with Al-Qaeda, maintaining our military is more vital then ever. Masterchief and I have spent many hours coming up with a systematic plan to improve our military capability and power without spending ourselves into oblivion. The best militaries arent the largest ones, they are the most advanced ones. With my low-cost initiatives, we can build revamp our military so that it has the most advanced weapons in the world and also has the power of magic so that we can fight the enemies of the world with firepower or magic whatever the case may be. In my 5 point plan called "Harry Potter and America's military", I go into how we can effectively transform our military into the strongest in the world once again by doing the following - 1) Outfitting our soldiers with magic-capabilities to give them the ultimate edge - 2) Use the private sector to manufacture Halo-like weaponry to arm our soldiers - 3) Initiate low-cost programs to train soldiers to effectively use magic and big a** machine guns together - 4) Cut military programs that are ineffective against our enemies such as the infamously ineffective "Pillow gun" which has cost the country billions of dollars which Optimus Prime actually introduced. - 5) Raising the retirement age to collect Social Security and tweaking other social programs to cut down on the $14 trillion this country spends on social programs every year. - and 6) Passing a balanced budget amendmentOptimus Prime's solution to the shortfall of our military is to outfit all of Optimus Prime's friends with gadgets manufactured by Steve Job's own company which are over-expensive, over-rated, and manufactured in Chinese sweat shops. His solution is to our military shortfall is to give more of your hard earned money to China to buy gadgets from his VP's own company to give to his own friends who started the war with the deceptacons in the first place and then brought it to our own planet!.... As for 16kadams's question, it is very courageous of you to advocate for gay rights and I commend you for it. I am an openly gay man so I do approve of Gay Marriage being legalized. I would encourage legislation to legalize it, but I would not make it my number one priority to focus on at the moment because of all the other problems this country currently faces. I am for Gay Marriage, for the legalization of Marijuana, and I am for the legalization of prostitution. Optimus Prime on the other hand is the ultimate hypocrite on these issues because he calls himself a social conservative and is heavily against all of these things even though he himself once claimed that "freedom is the right of all sentient beings". Lastly, there is RoyalPaladin's question regarding abortion. Now I am against late term abortion but I am much more lenient towards regular abortion, like most Americans. The issue is that science hasnt given us a solid answer of when a fetus is a person or not, and magic doesnt have the answer either. I would allow first and second trimester abortion to be legal and third trimester abortion to be illegal until science could more accurately define when a fetus is a person or not. Now this is not the same position as Optimus Prime, he believes that abortion shouldnt be legal under any circumstances because as a social conservative. He believes that pregnancy by rape is an act of God, and that if its a legitimate rape, then the body has a way of shutting that whole thing down..... Ill end this round with these final remarks. We currently face staggering economic setbacks due to the number of wars we are fighting with the Chinese, the Deceptacons, Al-Qaeda, and with the Franco-Singapore empire threatening to declare war on the peaceful nation of Germanic France, our closest ally, our first priority must be to bring our shattered military back to its glory without spending ourselves into oblivion. Now we do not have to fight our enemies until they are vanquished, because it is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated. We will never defeat our enemies, but we can still give them an a** whipping, and the men to deliver that a** whipping is Me and my Vice President Masterchief. I now cede the rest of my time to Optimus Prime