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H2O Man

(73,534 posts)
13. Decades ago,
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 06:25 PM
Sep 2012

when I had the opportunity to hang out with Abbie Hoffman as he prepared to speak at an area university, he was describing a person similar to Willard Romney. My memories from that afternoon/evening are not as clear as I'd like, and so I can only paraphrase him ..... and probably not doing justice to him, because he was so funny ....

Anyhow, one person referred to the person in question as an "asshole." Abbie noted that the person lacked all the wholesome qualities of an actual sphincter. Rather, he said, the person was simply the hot air that at times passes through a sphincter.

Thus, I would say that while Mitt may forget to fart, he is nothing, if not that small passage of hot air. And the media reports that pretend he did a noble job are, in effect, the stains left by that process.

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