Slog News & Arts

Line Out

Music & Nightlife

« Youth Pastor Watch | Prayer in the State House, Coc... »

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Washington State Angle! Kucinich’s UFO was Sighted Here.

posted by on October 31 at 9:18 AM

Via TPM:

RSS icon Comments

1

Psycho smile, meet flubber chin. Now annoy the hell out of us.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 31, 2007 9:25 AM
2

Maybe he was looking at the space needle.

Posted by Gabriel | October 31, 2007 9:39 AM
3

I adore Kucinich for being so unabashedly honest, even if it does kill his chances of ever being near the White House. I also adore him for defending Hillary last night when Obama and Edwards were attacking her. I wish he had some kind of chance at getting the presidency, because he's definitely the anti-Bush.

Posted by Carollani | October 31, 2007 9:48 AM
4

And Kucinich fans wonder why most of us think he's unelectable.

Posted by SDA in SEA | October 31, 2007 10:25 AM
5

Interesting.

I saw one when I was 16, but up north in Trail, BC.

At least he's honest.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 31, 2007 10:32 AM
6

@4: You think believing you saw a UFO is more fucked up that believing in The Rapture or some of the other conservative religious bullshit that Bush, et al bow down to?

Posted by DOUG. | October 31, 2007 11:40 AM
7

True, remember that all but one of the GOP candidates have admitted that not only do they hate science, they don't believe in evolution.

There's stupid. And there's really stupid.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 31, 2007 11:45 AM
8

in all fairness, a ufo is merely an unidentified flying object. unless he specifically says he believes in aliens have sent ships here...

Posted by infrequent | October 31, 2007 11:59 AM
9

@8, certainly, that is true. But Kucinich completely bungled the answer, and left the impression that he believes in little green space aliens.

He could have said "Yes, I saw something in the air that I couldn't identify, thus: an unidentified flying object. Could'a been a research balloon for all I know. I just couldn't figure out what it was." This is probably closer to the truth, and doesn't make him sound like a looney.

Posted by SDA in SEA | October 31, 2007 1:00 PM
10

Unless this was an obvious trick question by the MSM designed to help them ignore talking about the issues by discrediting Kucinich.

He's still unelectable, tho.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 31, 2007 2:34 PM
11

I'd be interested to hear what cons have to say about the fact that their hero, reagan, claimed to have witnessed 2 ufo encounters....?

Posted by moronikon | October 31, 2007 5:43 PM
12

This is a non-issue.

UFO is a generic term. It can be anything from a meteor to a weather balloon.

Unidentified Flying Object. Meaning the observer has no idea what it is. Obviously he didn't think it was a regular plane or anything else he could immediately identify.

So what? I've also seen things in the sky that I could not immediately identify. I'm sure many people have.

Posted by Eric | October 31, 2007 6:44 PM
13

The Republicans haven't jumped on this because Reagan made a similar claim.

I am surprised Kucinich admitted knowing Shirley McClaine.

Posted by Zander | October 31, 2007 9:35 PM

Comments Closed

In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).