Every time Obama says something stupid or insane you can bet the press will ignore it and then act as if Romney did one and its a big deal.
deflect, distract and then demagogue
At least he didn’t say: “...as the plane is flying over 57 states.”
Well, if you roll down the windows at 20,000 feet, that’s certainly not going to let in fresh air and oxygen.
Dear Mr. Wang,
Since you decided to slam Mitt Romney over jet airliner windows that won’t open, maybe you can explain to me why that’s the case.
My guess is this a$$#at is aware of the fact that you can’t open the windows in a jet airliner, and that’s about it.
I don’t think that for a layman, it’s unusual for them not to know why things like this don’t work, just that they don’t. He knows that if your car’s passenger compartment fills up with smoke, you open the windows. He might know that in a private plane flying at low altitudes, you might be able to do so too. He knows you can’t do that in a jet airliner, and that for some reason the designers wouldn’t allow you to open a window.
As usual, this is the press going after nothing, doing their best to embarrass their enemy as a dunderhead, like they did with Bush. They know he’s not, but they never allow truth to get in the way of their meme.
Mark
Get in a plane filled with smoke and see how long it takes you to try to open a window with any method available.
He is fortunate he is not planning a funeral for his wife. This clip is more a relating of emotion than an educated engineer comment on a viable system. Although a method to introduce air safely into a cabin that is filled with a toxin could be a great invention...
OBAMA....remember? Anybody but Obama...
When do the X-Factor and American Idol threads start???
I mean, we don't need to talk about the fact that Obama called the death of four Americans, including the United States Ambassador to Libya, A FREAKIN' "BUMP IN THE ROAD".
Why, then, you'd actually be doing real reporting.
And we know you simply cannot have that, you Press Pravda bastards.
I would not have enjoyed being on that aircraft. Declaring an emergency, smoke in cabin... can you imagine the descent from 40k? I’m afraid they would have to pry my butt cheeks loose from the seat with the jaws of life when the thing rolled to a stop.
And they say Romney is just like the rest of us...
If Sarah Palin had ever said that she’d never live it down.
Do windows open in the bus that Romney now finds hisself under?
What is he going to say next? Opening windows in submarines?
We're going to need lots and lots of Science advisors for the next administration.
But not nearly as many as the current 60 IQ Bunch.
"There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. C. (engineer, automotive experience of 40+ years, and Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. C. that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (a whole other topic). They were quoting BTUs of LNG and battery life that they had looked up on some website.
Mr. C. explained that to do this you would need a TRUNK FULL of batteries and a LNG tank as big as the car to make that happen, and that there were certain laws of physics that prevented them from...
The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here):
"These laws of physics? Whose rules are those? We need to change that."
(Some of the others wrote down the law so they could look it up later.)
"We have the congress and administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort of issues."
.......And these are the people who are going to fix healthcare. And stop the rising oceans; and have all koranimals worldwide singing Kum-ba-ya, if only the 'Great Uniter had one more term... or three or four!
I have.felt the same way when encountering turbulence in private jet or commercial.
I just think “Wish the window coukd be opened if we crash. Sure would save me the trouble of fighting over the top of everyone else and trying to push the confused person out of the way, who can’t seem to fighre out how to open the door and toss on a seat....”
Per snopes:
A review of the video footage of Mitt Romney’s remarks show he did speak the words but clearly indicated that he intended the line to be taken tongue-in-cheek aside rather than as a serious statement.
Video at link. http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/windows.asp
I bet the windows on his spaceship to KOLOB open just fine.
This explains why he thought Seamus wouldn’t be bothered by the “draft” while traveling in the dog carrier.