Why Mitt Romney is Not Going to Be President

Now that the individual who supposedly assaulted former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on a flight from Vancouver has told his side of the story, we have one more bit of evidence about Mitt Romney’s character, and it isn’t encouraging.  Romney claimed that he told the passenger in front of him to bring his seat back up for take-off, and the man struck him. He told the flight attendant the same thing, resulting in the passenger being removed from the flight.

Now the passenger, a successful rapper named Skyler Gordy, has made a video giving his side of the story, and it is 100% more believable than Romney’s version. Continue reading

Ethics Dunce: Sen. Charles Shumer

It’s a minor news event with a couple of ethics lesson, but as usual, the media’s focus is on the wrong one.

New York’s U.S.  Senators, Gillibrand and Shumer, were talking away on their cell phones before take-off.  The flight attendants announced, as they have been doing on flights since before Cher’s first retirement tour, that it was time to ditch the electronic devices and turn off the cell phones. The senators ignored the instructions, and kept talking anyway, because, you know, their work is So Very Important. Continue reading