Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:03:40 PM
Who forced these guys to stand there? Doesn't Mittens fit right in? LOL
Romney in Ohio and the Political Power of Coal
By Charles P. Pierce
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Old mining hand Willard Romney — "Load 16 tons/Whaddya get?/Another day older/And more cash in the Caymans" — was out in Ohio today, bonding with his fellow workingmen against the perfidy of, among other people, Joe Biden, the King Of The Windmills.
"His vice-president," Romney told the miners, "said that coal kills more people than terrorists. Can you imagine that?"
Well, I've been watching Willard Romney campaign for president for five years now, so I can imagine a politician saying almost anything. For example, I can imagine Willard Romney mendaciously barbering the vice president's remarks. It's not really a stretch.
(And drunk drivers kill more Americans every year than terrorists do. If I said that while running for office, would that be a gaffe?)
(Meanwhile, Biden was, ah, pretty hot today. Joe, dude, if you'd have hired me to write your speeches back in '76 like you could have when I applied, you'd be finishing up construction of the Biden Presidential Library in Scranton by now.)
However, the issue of the political power of coal in this country is not an insignificant one. Coal is what everyone throws back at you when...
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/#ixzz23Zks1PAP
Romney in Ohio and the Political Power of Coal
By Charles P. Pierce
(Optional soundtrack to this blog post...)
Old mining hand Willard Romney — "Load 16 tons/Whaddya get?/Another day older/And more cash in the Caymans" — was out in Ohio today, bonding with his fellow workingmen against the perfidy of, among other people, Joe Biden, the King Of The Windmills.
"His vice-president," Romney told the miners, "said that coal kills more people than terrorists. Can you imagine that?"
Well, I've been watching Willard Romney campaign for president for five years now, so I can imagine a politician saying almost anything. For example, I can imagine Willard Romney mendaciously barbering the vice president's remarks. It's not really a stretch.
(And drunk drivers kill more Americans every year than terrorists do. If I said that while running for office, would that be a gaffe?)
(Meanwhile, Biden was, ah, pretty hot today. Joe, dude, if you'd have hired me to write your speeches back in '76 like you could have when I applied, you'd be finishing up construction of the Biden Presidential Library in Scranton by now.)
However, the issue of the political power of coal in this country is not an insignificant one. Coal is what everyone throws back at you when...
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/#ixzz23Zks1PAP
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