"We are seeing things floated in speeches without being thought through or without considering the long-term consequences," he said.
But after five years of tweets, interviews and speeches floating the conspiracy, the real estate mogul recanted last week.
Inside the stadium, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah -- often criticized in Srinagar as too close to New Delhi -- gave an impassioned speech, his amplified words floating out across the empty seats.
The floating soiree featured a speech by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) and was attended by shopping center magnate Mel Sembler, energy billionaire Wilbur Ross and several dozen others who have raised more than $1 million each for Romney's presidential effort, officials said.
"Dejando todo para mañana since 1982," reads a speech bubble floating near the figure's small head, which translates to, "Putting off everything until tomorrow since 1982".
The idea was floated in a speech in the summer, but the detailed proposals show Mr Miliband is serious about trying to press ahead with the radical idea as a central part of his climate change strategy.
Other ideas floated in the speech included giving each new recipient of a national insurance number details on how to join a trade union, and a "Philip Green law" to curb dividends and set rules on adding debt to companies.
If hate speech floats your boat, go for it.
Dagwood might disappear altogether, with just an empty speech bubble left floating in the room to indicate its sad-sack source.
Before I became a writer I was an editor, and it's possible that I did this job for too long because, even now, strange headlines arrive in my head unbidden, floating above new experiences like speech bubbles in a cartoon strip.
