Rick Perry couldn’t name the three cabinet agencies he planned to eliminate. It’s a fair bet that Josh Mandel, the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, wouldn’t be able to tell you what the third “R” stands for in the old phrase about “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic.” (Evidently it’s not “Republican.”)
Introducing Mitt Romney at a rally in Beallsville on Tuesday, Mandel inveighed against the administration’s energy policies and the Democratic incumbent:
These people who are out of touch with Ohio – Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown — have waged a war on coal. They think coal is a four-letter word. I’ll tell you this afternoon, for any of these folks trying to stand between us and affordable, reliable, dependable energy, we have four words for them: over our dead bodies.
C-O-A-L. That’s one, two, three . . . . .
Oh, good Lord.
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In other intelligence news, we have this anti-Obama ad from a new 501(c)(4) group, “Special Operations Opsec Education Fund,” the 2012 version of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Made up of former military and CIA officers with connections to the Tea Party, the group hits the president for supposedly leaking national security secrets and taking too much credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In one portion of the 22-minute video, someone purporting to be a Navy SEAL says,
Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden. America did.
Leaving aside the fact that Obama has never claimed to have personally killed bin Laden, the idea that “America” killed the terrorist is just as ridiculous as the idea that the Commander in Chief himself wielded a gun in Abbottabad. If the Opsec folks want to get so specific about it, Uncle Sam didn’t kill Bin Laden; Anonymous Navy SEAL #41 did. Who exactly does the angry dude in the video think pulled the trigger — this guy?
The real bin Laden killer?
. . . So Well Read. . . 
Very funny…… but crazy, sad too – that there are such ignorant people in such high positions and that there are people who will believe even the most ludicrous junk.