Wednesday, January 30, 2008
From the Immanent Archives
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
New round of endorsements
On Democratic side, the endorsements speak for themselves: Europe's Candidate (Definitively, Barack Obama is the Candidate of Europe) and The Anti-Torture President.Mitt Romney's mind is a marvel — a calculating, evaluating, inquisitive,
all-consuming consulting machine, formed on his CEO-father's lap, trained in
Harvard's business and law schools, and perfected while making hundreds of
millions in the cutthroat world of private equity investing. There is not a
spreadsheet that does not pique his interest, not a bureaucracy he does not itch
to streamline, not a widget factory he does not wish to understand.
"I'm so
excited to see this product!" he exclaimed Saturday in Lutz, Florida, outside of
Tampa, while visiting a company called Opinicus, which makes "Level D" flight
simulators.
"I don't think I have seen a more impressive layout at a
facility, and I have seen some extraordinary facilities," he gushed a few hours
earlier, after touring a coupon-making ValPak plant in Largo.
"Unfortunately, the utensils are not as hard as they need to be," he said
over lunch at KFC, where the cholesterol-soaked skin of his fried chicken was
overwhelming his plastic knife and fork.
Update: Best of course would be a stolen nomination, with perhaps Florida as the decisive state.