It didn't, because as WPLG TV reports, it was forced down by high winds, crashed and went limp in a field near Davie, FL. In other words the winds of reality outweighed the artificially created hot air holding it aloft.
There's something amusingly Ozymandian about the smiling image of Willard Mitt Romney looking out from the wreckage of a collapsed airship; something so appealingly metaphorical and prophetic. Please, God -- let it be a sign.
now that's a funny image, Romney as Ozymandias, one of my favorite poems by the way.
ReplyDeleteShelley is underrated. Romneymandias -- it has a certain ring to it. After last night especially.
DeleteAfter tonight's debate, and Obama's failure to distinguish any real significant differences (actually they both played it safe) with Mittens it is now all about the economy.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting, it will be close, and it will be determined by the effectiveness of the perception each candidate was able to create in the electorate.
There may be some surprised people.
“Obama's failure to distinguish any real significant differences …”
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No offense, but sometimes you are so knuckleheaded in your partisan loyalties that you are either blind sighted or tone deaf to facts. Obama has been consistent in this foreign policy positions; Romney shook his Etch-A-Sketch to appear moderate and closer to mainstream opinion.
For weeks, Romney has pandered to manufactured outrage over the Benghazi incident. Why did he avoid this subject tonight? Because it would have blown in his face:
ITEM 1: The Republican controlled House voted down Obama’s request for a $300 million appropriation to improve State Department security.
ITEM 2: The Republican hit man in Congress, Darrell Issa, botched the Benghazi hearings. Read Issa’s Benghazi document dump exposes Libyans working with the U.S., highlights as follows:
”Issa didn't bother to redact the names of Libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables, and just as with the WikiLeaks dump of State Department cables last year, the administration says that Issa has done damage to U.S. efforts to work with those Libyans and exposed them to physical danger from the very groups that had an interest in attacking the U.S. consulate …
One of the cables released by Issa names a woman human rights activist who was leading a campaign against violence and was detained in Benghazi. She expressed fear for her safety to U.S. officials and criticized the Libyan government …
Another cable names a Benghazi port manager who is working with the United States on an infrastructure project …
Other cables contain details of conversations between third-party governments, such as the British and the Danes, and their private interactions with the U.S., the U.N., and the Libyan governments over security issues …”
Shades of Valerie Plame, the CIA operative outed by the Bush administration just to strike back against her husband. Yes, this is what Republicans do best: Comprise CIA operations just to score political points – and put political interests above national security. BTW, Valerie Plame was a CIA operative in the Iran Section.
RN, sometimes your knee jerk partisanship is more than annoying. Know your facts before you prognosticate.
Sorry Octo, my loyalty is with Gary Johnson, the only candidate.in my never humble opinion that is truly offering something different.
DeleteMittens is not my candidate anymore than the president is. You are right that Romney seems unable to make up his mind, at least in his public utterances. Looking to his record as governor of MA. reveals the real Romney more than his rhetoric.
I am having fun however watching the true rEpublican AND dEmocrat partisans scramble to out do each other. While the oligarch puppet masters continue smiling.
Sorry my sincere cynicism towards both candidates appears to you to be partisanship. I will be voting Gary Johnson. The oligarchs pulling the puppets strings from behind the curtains have plenty of adherents already. They don't need me.
Funny, but I thought the differences were more apparent than ever seen in any of these debates and I've seen every one since 1960.
ReplyDeleteNixon came off as a crude thug and it cost him. Romney looked like an aging, alcoholic, hung-over Hollywood has-been with too much makeup and varnished hair and with an embarrassing past that's beginning to smell. Obama? He looked like the cool, confident and amused professor listening to the sweating frat boy who didn't do his homework and is trying to bullshit his way out of it.
I think Governor Rombluster stuck his foot in it many times -- dredging up the magical mystery apology tour that never happened, for one thing, and denying things he's there on video saying for everyone to look up. Adding 7 TRILLION to the debt isn't going to increase it? Your arithmetic doesn't add up, Governor Bonzo. And isn't it time he got called on it when he couldn't weasel out of it? You could see the fear and animal rage in his eyes. His lips were whiter than a Republican's ass.
I wish I were there to ask the Baron of Bluster if he really and truly was so sure the US has never, ever, ever done anything worth apologizing for -- have we never dropped a bomb on a hospital, killed millions of civilians in carpet bombing cities. Did we spend 40 years murdering Seminoles or did we not? Did we have slavery long after the 'civilized' world had given it up? And if 'we' have nothing to feel sorry for, which side was the right side during the Civil War? Are you seeing that fallacy, Gov? If we've made no mistakes, then you have no campaign.
Did we or did we not support Saddam Hussein, Mobuto Seze Seco and a host of African and Latin American dictators in genocides and atrocities. Did we (the Republicans)not depose an elected government in Iran, instal a hereditary king and then pay Saddam Hussein to slaughter the populace? Dosn't that rate at least an OOPS?
Did St Ronnie wage secret and illegal wars and train fascist death squads and didn't you try to impeach Obama for helping the Libyans? Sorry Romney, we have blood on our hands and you have shit all over you.
The same bastards who murdered Civil Rights workers, who supported segregation and Jim Crow and every form of racism and ethnic discrimination are your "base" today and I piss on your arrogance you lying, fork-tongued bastard.
Did you hear him explain how he'd tell this country and that country what to do and then declare that we never tell any country what to do? Lying worm. Prevaricating vermin.
Romney knew he was being taken to the cleaners early on. You could see it through the greasepaint and face powder. He looked chalky and his lips were pale and seemed like a snake about to shed its skin. He looked like a two dollar whore at the debutantes ball - and he is.
No, although I think I could have done better, Obama was cool, collected, handy with the facts and not afraid to demonstrate Romney's perfidy, his lies and his terrible decision making skills. I've seen bulls come out of the ring in better shape and I think Obama should be awarded the ears and tail.
Of course the party faithful immediately went to Fox to hear how what happened didn't happen and how the lies are true and the truth false and what's getting better is getting worse and how, most of all, never was there a man called Bush who increased the debt more than all the presidents combined and that Nearly all of Obama's 'spending' was to pay Bush's bills.
Didn't you hear how that perennial bogeyman -- his crap about Obama weakening the Military bombed? (Pun intended) "No, governor, we don't have as many buggy whips and horses now either" And if it weren't for that Government you say we don't need, you'd have a dozen 11 year old wives and maybe a hundred slaves too. And let them eat cake and pay taxes too.
A sign, yes - one can only hope...
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