Mitts Romney - 'Why don't aeroplane windows open?"

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**Mr. Burning**

I'm not altogether sure if this is real or....

http://news.uk.msn.com//blog/trending-blogpost.aspx?post=e562d508-8516-4834-aae8-eacc75af4480&_nwpt=1

Mitt Romney doesn’t understand why we can’t open airplane windows
By MichelleS986 8 hours ago
He's conquered the world of business and soared to enormous political heights. Could aeronautical engineering be next for Mitt Romney? The GOP presidential nominee wowed a crowd over the weekend with his keen grasp of physics when he lamented that airplanes don’t have windows, appearing to view it as a problem that could be fixed in jiffy with a patent and a couple of good engineers. Speaking about his wife's emergency landing Friday, Romney said: "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem."

**SagesStone**

Well, why don't they open in submarines? I mean if water starts getting in there you want to get out, but can't because they don't open. It's such a stupid design.

**LordofHats**

Just when I thought Romney had finally run out of stupid things to say. I'll give him this. He keeps us on our toes.

EDIT: As an additional comment, I'm pretty sure that when there's a fire in a inclosed space... Opening a window is the last thing you want to do...

**Frazzled**

47% of all airplane windows will never open for Romney. He shouldn't even try to open them.

**SagesStone**

LordofHats wrote:
Just when I thought Romney had finally run out of stupid things to say. I'll give him this. He keeps us on our toes.

EDIT: As an additional comment, I'm pretty sure that when there's a fire in a inclosed space... Opening a window is the last thing you want to do...

But, it'll let in a gentle breeze and blow it all out like the candles on a birthday cake*.

*Sometimes the truth is better hidden amongst some charred wreckage.

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

No words

**Ouze**

Frazzled wrote:
47% of all airplane windows will never open for Romney. He shouldn't even try to open them.

OK, that was legitimately hilarious.

**Snrub**

Could Romney be the new Bush when it comes to saying/doing stupid things?

I Hope so! 4 years of Obama not doing/saying stupid things has made me loose faith in the pollies you guys elect. Cmon America, step up your game. The rest of the world wants Presidents they aren't smart.

**hotsauceman1**

Romney 2012, A window for every passenger.

**LordofHats**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Romney 2012, An openable window for every passenger.

There we go. Gotta clarify now

**AustonT**

You know before I just THOUGHT he was deliberately sabotaging his campaign, now I KNOW.

**Frazzled**

Snrub wrote:
Could Romney be the new Bush when it comes to saying/doing stupid things?

I Hope so! 4 years of Obama not doing/saying stupid things has made me loose faith in the pollies you guys elect. Cmon America, step up your game. The rest of the world wants Presidents they aren't smart.

Obama says plenty of stupid things.

After the murder of our embassador and riots/protests across the world, our relations in the Middle East just have to get past this "bump" in the road. Awesome.

Now back to the topic.
In Romney's America we're not waiting for government to open the windo for us, each American will have the opportunity to open the window himself.
In Romney's America a rising tide opens all windows.
In Romney's America we don't divide the plane into window have and window have nots.
In Romney's America, the greatest country in the world, we have the best windows in the history of mankind, windows made by our founding fathers, windows of FREEDOM.

**whembly**

Meh... Obama's 57-states' gaffe worthy?

I'm just going to leave this here:

Two possibilities. One: A guy with a joint degree from Harvard Law and Harvard Business, who’s made hundreds of millions of dollars through his keen grasp of business, and who’s been flying regularly for decades (imagine the amount of campaign travel in the past five years alone) somehow hasn’t figured out yet that cabins are pressurized at high altitudes. Somehow, the thousands of safety demonstrations he’s endured at the beginning of each flight, replete with the bit about maybe needing oxygen masks if something goes wrong, just didn’t sink in. Hopefully one of his 10-year-old grandchildren can pull him aside and explain the basics before he ups and opens the cabin door on his next flight so that he can get some fresh air.

Two: He’s being misunderstood. Obviously you can’t open the windows at high altitudes, but suffocating to death from smoke inhalation due to a fire in the cabin seems “sub-optimal” too. But what if … the windows could be opened at low altitudes? The pilot could bring the plane down to a few thousand feet (a la skydivers) to reduce the pressure differential and then a few windows could be opened to flush out the smoke and save the passengers’ lives. Could that be what Mitt Romney, Harvard grad, tycoon, and frequent air traveler, meant? Or is he already secretly planning to build the world’s first jumbo jet with a convertible top, so that you can pop the lid and feel the breeze in your hair at 35,000 feet? I hope someone in the media gets to the bottom of this quick, because there are a lot of bloggers out there tonight who seem genuinely unsure.

**Snrub**

Frazzled wrote:
Obama says plenty of stupid things.

Wait wait wait... Are you telling me Obama is only human? That doesn't seem right...

After the murder of our embassador and riots/protests across the world, our relations in the Middle East just have to get past this "bump" in the road. Awesome.

What bump would that be? The lip of the crater that was the Middle East?

**TheHammer**

Hey, Frazzled is trying to make political hay out of a tragedy while also ignoring the realities of what is going on in the Middle East!

I find his arguments to be well reasoned, based in facts, and quite persuasive!

haha not really, he's talking crap.

Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years!

**Ouze**

Back on-topic, either this just isn't true, or it was a joke that got misinterpreted. I am guessing the former since I don't know if Mr. Romney is programmed for joke functionality, but I guess they could have put in a firmware update.

**AustonT**

Remember when Obama told us about how Lincoln built the Intercontinental Railroad during the Civil War?
That was fun.

**Frazzled**

Snrub wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Obama says plenty of stupid things.
Wait wait wait... Are you telling me Obama is only human? That doesn't seem right...

After the murder of our embassador and riots/protests across the world, our relations in the Middle East just have to get past this "bump" in the road. Awesome.
What bump would that be? The lip of the crater that was the Middle East?

Hey ask him. I didn't say it.

And of course he's human and says stupid things. He talks a hellofava lot...
Well, lets restate, he's human unless the Martians have finally started their plan to replace the world's leaders with dopplegangers. This is why his birth certificate is a fraud. He's an alien after all, FROM MARS!!!

**TheHammer**

You mean the railroad that was started in 1862 by an act of Congress?

**Frazzled**

TheHammer wrote:
Hey, Frazzled is trying to make political hay out of a tragedy while also ignoring the realities of what is going on in the Middle East!

I find his arguments to be well reasoned, based in facts, and quite persuasive!

haha not really, he's talking crap.

Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years!

Wait wait, no commentary on "In ROmney's America?" Come on those were funny. This supports my view that commies have no sense of humor.

**TheHammer**

First joke about windows and 47% was mildly funny. The others were not.

**Frazzled**

TheHammer wrote:
First joke about windows and 47% was mildly funny. The others were not.

Like I said. commies just got no sense of humor.

**TheHammer**

I think you're confusing "no sense of humor" with having taste, class, and sophistication.

**Kilkrazy**

Perhaps in Romney's private jet you can open the windows.

**AustonT**

TheHammer wrote:
I think you're confusing "no sense of humor" with having taste, class, and sophistication.

Are you trying to claim those traits?

**Sigvatr**

Snrub wrote:

I Hope so! 4 years of Obama not doing/saying stupid things

Obamacare anyone?

**Frazzled**

TheHammer wrote:
I think you're confusing "no sense of humor" with having taste, class, and sophistication.

As soon as you find that person, let me know.

**TheHammer**

You guys with your humor jokes! It's almost as if I set you up for an obvious joke to prove a point.

**Frazzled**

TheHammer wrote:
You guys with your humor jokes! It's almost as if I set you up for an obvious joke to prove a point.

Please enlighten us when you have a point.

IN the meantime
In Romney's America private industry will have the freedom to have windows that open fully. And he will stand up to China and put a stop to their cheaper windows.

**kronk**

"When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem."

I'm hoping that was a joke. If not, the man is a dumbass.