I received the following email:

Steven —

Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, just said this:

“No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”

Take a moment or two to think about that, what he’s actually saying, and what it says about Mitt Romney.

Thanks,

Messina

Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

Maybe this gedankenexperiment (In German – an experiment carried out in thought only) suggested by Jim Messina belongs in a category with my previous post Why Do Republicans Celebrate Labor Day?

See, my science/engineering education wasn’t completely wasted.  This is where I learned the phrase “gedanken experiment” or just plain “gedanken”.  I bet it cost less than $15,000 in tuition, for all my years as a college undergraduate.  See how great inflation is for making your past debts shrink to insignificance?  I think we could use a little of that right now.