[cripplecreek]

Serious screw up for the big finish. CNN will pay some big fines for this.

[NonValueAdded]

Bump to savor the moment.

[Constitution Day]

Holy Helium, Batman!

Where's Nena, just when you need her 99 Luftballoons?

[SirAllen]

Bwahahahaha.....that's awesome!

[DB]

That's too funny!

[RetroSexual]

So, I guess the convention was a big success?

It's so good, you can't make this stuff up!

[x1stcav]

Here you go:

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons
With the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by

---- Instrumental Interlude ----

99 Knights of the airway
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go


(German Version)

Hast Du etwas Zeit fuer mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst Du vielleicht grad' an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass sowas von sowas kommt

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn's so waer
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

99 Duesenflieger
Jeder war ein grosser Krieger
Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fuehlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 Jahre Krieg
Liessen keinen Platz fuer Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keine Duesenflieger
Heute zieh ich meine Runden
Seh' die Welt in Truemmern liegen
Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen

[nicholle]

Drudge is already salivating for some audio. This is going to be huge.

[nuconvert]

For Real?
LOL!

[McGruff]

from DrudgeReport.com

IF ANYONE HAS AUDIO OF CNN LIVE FEED OF OPEN MIC AND DNC BOOTH AND YELLING AT FAILURE OF BALLONS, PLEASE EMAIL TO MDRUDGE@AOL.COM...

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Mo1]

LOL .. I was wondering about the Delay of baloons

[OldFriend]

Listening to some jackass on WABC radio talking about how perfectly the balloon drop went......because it went poorly in 1980 for Carter and it was a bad portent.

LOLOLOL the spinning is hilarious.

[xp38]

They want to run the country but can't even do a balloon drop right.

[Nasher]

I had just switched to CNN to hear some reactions and heard the whole thing.

Talk about hilarious...what I can't understand is why CNN didn't immediately cut the mike. Funny hearing Wolf Blitzer trying to explain why the guy kept using profanity.

Heard same balloon problem happened to Carter in '80. Priceless.

[CaptainK]

Was that the voice of Terry McAuliffe?

[Chieftain]

CNN busted!! Big fines ahead!

[dandi]

Aww, don't be so hard on them. It was a simple miscommunication. They thought he was saying "More Buffoons!" and all went in search of Al Sharpton.

[Cagey]

"I want more Balloons, God Dammit"

[woofie]

Where is my balloon?