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Either Romney knows nothing about airplanes or has a seriously sick sense of humor

After a plane his wife was riding in had to make an emergency landing over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate and future leader of a group called Robot Nation, Mitt Romney, had this to say: "I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don't think she knows just how worried some of us were. When you have a fire in the aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly." He continued by saying,"...the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous... You can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open." The New York Times  reported who reported the story - Ashley Parker - updated the matter, by saying, "...it was clear from the context that he was not being serious." I'm not sure if I buy that and if he was kidding, the guy has a very strange sense of humor. When one's w...