The polls actually had Romney in the lead. There was a time, of course, just after the first presidential debate, when the possibility arose that this most rainbow of coalitions might not pull it off. Aided by the congenitally centre-leaning mainstream media and an economy at last responding to treatment, together they stopped the planet having to cope with the election of Willard Mitt Romney as president.
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These are the real heroes of the past 12 months, for they are the ones who stood between us and a billionaire bozo as leader of the free world. I can see why someone would think that."Īnd so, as 2012 sits mumbling to itself in the Father Time Care Home Facility for Terminally Past-it Years, sipping soup through a Tommy Tippee cup and calling all the nurses "mummy", let us give thanks to ethnic-minority Americans, the country's women, its welfare claimants, tree-huggers, nerds, pinko liberals, gays of either coast, geeks, members of the Book of the Month Club, listeners to public radio, and Medicare patients. "We thought it had to be Ted, as he's the only big gingery thing around there and he does wander into that field," she said. The faithful kept the dream of the Essex Lion alive till Tuesday when the Daily Mail ran an interview with a local 50-year-old owner of a 3ft-long Maine Coon cat called Teddy Bear. The police called their search off that afternoon.
"It was one-million per cent a lion," he added decisively.Īnd then a picture appeared online, to spoil it all: poor quality, though clearly not a lion but a pussy cat-shaped thing on the other side of a field. Rich Baker, a 39-year-old caravanner, was one believer: "A man started running towards us yelling, 'It's a f****** lion!' He looked so panicked you knew it wasn't a joke," he told the Daily Mail, swearing like an asterisk. Some witnesses were more convinced than others. Once Colchester Zoo had accounted for its three African lions, the police grabbed their thermal-imaging cameras, press-ganged some local zoo staff with a tranq gun and jumped into the helicopter – because there's an alpha predator stalking the Clacton countryside! That evening, police reported the first sighting "of what holidaymakers described as a lion sitting in grassland off Earls Hall Drive in St Osyth".
And then, on Sunday 26 August, a roar came from the wheat fields of Essex that was heard around the world. Where was the equivalent of the attack of the killer chipmunks (2009), or the sufferings of Blackie the donkey (1987)? Crushed under a big pile of Mo, Jessica and Bradley. Like a six-lane motorway through a nature reserve, the London Olympics despoiled the ecosystem of this year's silly season.
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