Willard Mitt Romney throws J. Willard Marriott under the train

[KurtNYC]

The campaign descended on Denver Monday, and after a requisite rally, they immediately went into debate prep mode, holing up at the downtown Renaissance (by Marriott) Hotel
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But Romney got virtually no sleep Monday night, an aide said, blaming a freight train that passed through a grade crossing near the hotel and blew its horn roughly every hour all through the night. The candidate's sleep deprivation so worried his staff that the campaign looked into switching hotels. The logistics were ultimately too tough, the aide said, and there was concern about how it would look.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/restless-romney-braces-for-high-stakes-debate

Romney was named after fellow Mormon millionaire J Willard Marriott. Marriott puts a copy of the Book of Mormon in every room (along with Gideon's Bible) btw. Taking a page out of "The Princess and the Pea" Romney insisted he couldn't sleep in JW's noisy Denver hotel what with all the peasant noise outside.

Romney, who has said people are "tired of Ann" and London wasn't ready for the Games and 47% of Americans are dependent victims and those who do pay taxes are suckers has now added his own name sake and god father to the list of those who are fodder for his endless excuses. The Denver Renaissance Marriott will now be infamous for being too near the train tracks (at least for Prince Romney).

What a guy.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Was it Warren Buffet's BNSF mainline?

[Panasonic]

2. Here's a Google map...

And yes, there is a rail line nearby.. maybe two or three blocks...

(two blocks to the north, to be specific - you can see the lines north of Smith Rd)

https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=renaissance+marriott+denver+downtown&fb=1&gl=us&hq=renaissance+marriott&hnear=0x876b80aa231f17cf:0x118ef4f8278a36d6,Denver,+CO&cid=0,0,14137692344935070390&ei=57psUKKBN8iDyAHB5ID4BA&ved=0CJIBEPwSMAA

[Drunken Irishman]

4. How isolated is he?

Does he not live in a city? I hear train horns all the time ... every night. It doesn't bother me. He's too delicate to be president. What a fucking joke.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. That's one of the things that I love about the midwest when visiting inlaws.

The train whistles off in the distance in the dead of night. There's something magical about it.

Too bad that Moot is such a nancy boy not to enjoy a bit of America. There's not many trains running through Belmont MA, but you can still hear them in the distance.

I live down the road from Moot in another close by town.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Sounds like they're already trying to find excuses for a bad debate performance.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. The train wreck was trying to sleep, for chrissakes.........

[Taverner]

6. I'VE STAYED THERE!!!

And no, I didn't notice any train.

They did, however, leave chocolates on my pillow when I got back.

[Robb]

9. THEY TRIED TO RATTLE ME WITH CHOCOLATES!!11!

Oh, I can't wait.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

14. Heh.. That wasn't a train, Moot. It was Campaign Obama with the facts.

[Brickbat]

7. That was two nights ago, of course. If dudeman can't recover from that by now, then maybe he

shouldn't be president. Just sayin'.

[renate]

10. that's really true

Being President of the United States is hard.

[nolabear]

8. And he's so considerate he didn't ask for ear plugs.

What a guy.

[Bjorn Against]

11. So was the train parked and blowing its horn just to piss off Mitt?

If so then good for the person operating the whistle, but while trains sometimes move very slowly it is not real often that a train takes all night to get past the hotel and blows its horn every hour.

[liberal N proud]

12. I grew up with a train track 50 yards from my bedroom window.

Train sounds are music to my ears.

Clickity clack rolling through town signaling at the crossings for miles. I can still sleep soundly through the sounds of the train. Even had 80 cars pile up in the back yard while I slept.

The train didn't keep him up.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. I grew up in a residential area where the neighbor across the street

owned chickens, geese, turkey, ducks and horses.

I felt like I was growing up on the farm.

It is still music to my ears, and the old property still has many of the same things on it.

Some people don't have the ability to understand that America is made up of more than country clubs and quiet rooms.