Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist.
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...for all his simple-minded...mendacious twaddle about the genius of the American people, it's Willard Romney who's out there touting pie-in-the-sky, top-down solutions. Hire him to be CEO of America and his magical personal mathematics will make jobs appear out of thin air. Let him take an ax to regulations and the economy will boom. Let him personally dig the ditch for the Keystone XL pipeline and we'll all be paying $1 a gallon on the way to our $10-an-hour jobs in the booming new sky-pony production facilities. He's not asking for the hard work of recovery. Leaving aside the fact that he was hopelessly dishonest the other night—and leaving aside the fact that he's now trying to erase the worst thing he's ever said in public—he's also trying to get the country to turn its back on what it can legitimately take as its own hard-won optimism. Where does he get off, anyway?
Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire.