Seriously! This is our Republican candidate? This is beyond not knowing how a grocery store scanner works.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/24/899441/romney-plane-windows/?mobile=nc
That’s what a double degree, Harvard education gets you?
C’mon, Mitt! It’s like you’re no longer even trying to win this thing!
In case you forgot what industry Romney’s father worked in, it was the auto industry and not the airline industry. :smack: Yikes. That’s just dumb.
Well, once Mitt is POTUS, every passenger will have a little automatic window opening button on their arm rest. Take that you terrorists!
I do love it when he speaks extemporaneously (and I’m being completely sincere here). There is just something so quirky and slightly nutty about it - as if every little thing is a new discovery to him, or a new revelation.
I think this will be the best quote of the entire 2012 POTUS campaign.
Quote from the linked articles for those who worry about context:
The comments on Think Progress are funny! I like the one who complains that they can’t look out the window to see how the dog is doing.
They need to create a ‘reel’ of how the late night comedians handle this one!
Is there any chance, possibly, he was trying to be funny?
This brings to mind the question… Just how many times can you jump up and down on a d*ck before it finally falls off?
It’s certainly possible - he does seem to have a very quirky sense of humor.
That or he really is a robot and wasn’t programmed with information about airplane windows.
And remember: Mitt’s the grown-up in this race. His wife says so.
We’d need video to be able to tell for sure… I think it was a fund raiser… so there probably isn’t any video (they’re probably strip searching the people now before they get in)
Poor Mittens… the one time a fund raiser video could have proven he was just joking instead of dumber than a box of hammers… and there probably won’t be video.
This one looks like he started off to say something that was not unreasonable–something that might be paraphrased as “If there’s a fire in a plane, there’s nowhere to go to escape it, so it’s particularly scary.” Then he had some tangential thought about fires in enclosed spaces using up oxygen, and wandered off into wacky land after it rather than sticking to his theme.
I ask because Dennis Miller was at the fund-raiser, so perhaps Mitt was trying to be lighthearted.
What exactly was he trying to say but failed in doing so?
Was he trying to say if smoke gets into the cabin that there is no way to do an air exchange with the outside air?
Of course doing that by opening the windows would be a stupid way of going about it but don’t airplanes exchange air with the outside air?
I’m just gonna save myself some typing, here…
[snark] Oh… is Dennis Miller still a comedian? He hasn’t been funny in years… [/snark]
I like how Mitt wants to get more oxygen to a fire on board… brings to mind comments about going down in a great big ball of flames.
His policies and convictions are made of the finest weaksauce, distilled for six years in weeping willow casks. But this nitpickery of trying to find things to make him look generically dumb (hur hur, he thinks planes should have windows!) is missing the mark. Yes, he says some actual dumb things, and many of those dumb things reflect on who he is, what he values, and define his political monkeysphere. This, though, is not one of them.
I agree it has no political significance, but it’s still dumb and funny and can (nay, must!) be appreciated on that level.
I thought that at first too. Then I thought, “His instinct here is that aeronautical safety engineers have simply overlooked this problem.” This “those bone-headed engineers” mentality isn’t that far off from the all-too-common “those bone-headed climate scientists” mentality, or “those bone-headed ‘environmental engineers.’”
Then I thought, “Meh, he was speaking off the cuff, who cares.” But then I thought, “Wait, I want a president who doesn’t automatically think he knows better than trained professionals unless he has some time to think about it. His first reaction should be to trust those who have much more experience than him in a given field.”