He Shook Some (Moon) Dust Out Of His Tin Foil Hat
Just to paraphrase Bruce Springsteen. Bill Richardson demonstrated rather clearly that he is not ready for prime time - not that there was any question that he ever was. Yesterday, he landed firmly on the side of the mother of all conspiracy theories. If elected, Richardson will get to the bottom of the Roswell Incident.
ROUND ROCK, Texas — If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery.
Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a Dell employee asked Richardson about the 1947 incident in which many people still believe a flying saucer landed near the eastern New Mexico town.
"I've been in government a long time, I've been in the cabinet, I've been in the Congress and I've always felt that the government doesn't tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues," said Richardson, who is governor of New Mexico.
"When I was in Congress I said (to the) Department of Defense … 'What is the data? What is the data you have?' "
He was told that the records were classified.
"That ticked me off," he said, as the crowd laughed.
"What do you want me to do? You want me to open up all those files?" he asked the alien enthusiast, who answered that he did.
"I'll work with you on that."
Roswell has become a Mecca for conspiracy theorists in the years since a July 8, 1947, press release sent from Roswell Army Air Base disclosed the recovery of "a flying disk" at a ranch near Roswell.
You go, Billy! Just what the government of the United States needs, a full-blown conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office. Ron Paul would be proud! He's only working the smaller conspiracy theory of the 9/11 troofers. You're going for the mother lode. Have fun at the autopsy, Billy.
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By MikeM, October 27, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
Yeah, good luck with that, Bill.
By DavidL, October 27, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
AIR, Jimmy Carter promised to reveal all the Air Force’s project Blue Buok secrets and found none. Maybe is just a democrat thing?
By feeblemind, October 27, 2007 @ 11:40 pm
Info is classified, eh? Sounds like a job for Sandy Bergler.
By TC@LeatherPenguin, October 28, 2007 @ 6:12 am
Unless an alien bred hybrid of Chris Carter/David Duchovney is his running mate (or the lovely Miss Scully)… “No, sir! You have failed to secure the Geek vote.”
By Quilly Mammoth, October 28, 2007 @ 8:16 am
Of course Bill isn’t ready for prime time. If he was he would already know that the strings of government are being pulled by the Alien civilization that was accidentally uncovered in 1947.
And recent mocking of this, from Charles Johnson’s Lizardoid Army, to the TV shoew “V” to Glenn Beck’s jokes about “Replacements” holding political office are just ploys to desensitize the People.
I tell you more but I hear the Black Helicopters getting closer!
More on this when I can!!!
By Bleepless, October 28, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
If you look closely, you can see that the vehicles hitting the towers are actually UFOs and if you look really closely, you can see Dick Cheney parachuting from both of them. If you look really, really closely, you can see Karl Rove cheering at the site of the Pentagon strike.
Don’t let Ron Paul know about this. He will expose our whole conspiracy.