Letters to the Editor
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An oldie bit a goodie
http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/
Toss rural America in the trash. Focus on the cities. Let the redneck cousin humpers drown.
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Oldie and Moldie
Which candidate has a fifty state strategy again?
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@franzooey
I hate to break it to you, but we have libraries, books, and college in Appalachia.
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typo
Whoops, should have previewed. Colleges. Sorry for the typo,
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I hear you electro robot
But hose are pre-bush years. When teh american people were fooled by the gop. Get ready for a new map. :)
"Scorned on Issues, GOP Tries to Manufacture “Character Gap”
By: Jon Perr @ 10:40 AM - PDT
A flood of recent polls suggests the 2008 election will once again display the “Iron Law” of 21st century Republican presidential politics. That is, with Americans showing an overwhelming preference for Democratic positions across virtually the entire spectrum of issues, the GOP has to make the race about something else. This year as in 2000 and 2004, the Republicans will try to turn the race into a presidential personality contest. And to win it, they need to manufacture a “character gap” between John McCain and Barack Obama.
Two surveys in the past week show the Republicans’ dilemma. First, a new Rasmussen poll revealed that voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on each and every one of the 10 issues measured. Democrats enjoy double-digit advantages on the economy (50%-36%), government ethics (45%-26%), health care (54%-33%), Social Security (49%-36%), education (50%-35%), Iraq (50%-39%) and immigration (45%-35%). The GOP lags by smaller margins on national security, taxes and abortion.
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the gop is done for thirty years. Incompetance, criminality, and creating a monarchy agaisnt america and it's values did them in. They thought america was a fascist nation. They thought their propogandists would retain credibility. no on both fronts. now the gop is going to face the conseqeunce for their error. I would call it treason. they would say it's a tactical error. :)
but the gop is done. Why clinton and her propogandists still fear them is beyond me. i have to assume they are in it together. The gop is in with the terorrists (overseas. as they side with iraq and iran in the past), some democrats are in with the terorirsts (as the gop use fear and violence to achieve political means). The gop is done. those that still fear them are not to be trusted. They are repbulcains in sheeps clothing. Sabotuers. Only republcains still fear teh fox's and rush's of the world. Everyone else knows they are about to sleep in their beds for a generation.
It would be funny if so many lives weren't at stake
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Babies out with the bath water?
I thought democrats were the party of "inclusion." That means everybody. After all, some of the best and brightest blue minds (Carter, Clinton, Gore) have been raised in the fertile manure of red-state America.
Are these the people you want cut out of the process?
http://britebluedot.com/:
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but you still fear them? you still give rove and those like him credibility? Why? Did you forget about the 06 elections?
Have things improved or worsened for the gop since the sweep of 06? joan put's her hat in with the gop. Why? Personally i think it's a catholic thing. :) Nothing else makes sense, as to why clinton and her backers would sell us out NOW of all times.
She's a fighter? Where has she been the last eight years? the same place she is now. FIGHTING WITH the gop, rather than against them. let her join them. take the lieberman route, I say
"U.S. Outlook Is Worst Since '92, Poll Finds
Results Give Democrats Edge
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"Americans are gloomier about the direction of the country than they have been at any point in 15 years, and Democrats hold their biggest advantage since early 1993 as the party better able to deal with the nation's main problems, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. "
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@ Amity
West Virginia voted for Carter in 1980 and Dukakis in 1988. It also voted for Humphrey in 1968, by the way. The people of that state didn't ditch unions or the Democratic Party; the unions were broken with the connivance of a federal government that won more votes in California than West Virginia.
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prytania, let's not fall for it.
You don't have to get on a plane to see the Third World.
-- prytania
How right you are. However, it is frustrating that folks want to attribute poorness in America to a particular group of people. I grew up in the Robert Taylor projects in Chicago. I trained myself, and still do this to this day, not to go to the bathroom at night for fear of being shot dead. I witnessed, as a child, crackhead (it was the eighties) prostitutes giving Bjs in urine-soaked hallways for a five-dollar rock. Amid all the pain, I also witnessed the indomitable spirit of young women doing everything in their power to go to college, mothers struggling to make ends meet by working two jobs (McDonalds by day, cleaning motels by night), families organizing day-trips to Six Flags Great America for children in the entire building.
When I grew older, I also spent some time in rural Iowa and witnessed the Wal-Marting of America firsthand: Abandoned storefronts on Main Street, economically depressed communities, the only movie theater in town shutting down for lack of revenue, no vegetable for human consumption in sight (they grew it all for the cattle), news of yet another trailer blowing up while its owner cooked up meth. I worked as a receptionist at a law office and it broke my heart when an 18-year-old white mother of two (in the office because of a domestic violence case) couldn’t tell me her social security number because she didn’t know what social security numbers were. And, yes, at first people were standoffish because I was the other: black, urban, and educated. But, they did get to know me and I learned they are some of the kindest, hardest-working, tolerant people there are.
What concerns me is the type of zero-sum argument we’re having here in these forums, the way we are framing this debate: we either have to fight for the struggle of urban black/brown or rural white—we’re falling into the divide and conquer trap.
One thing I learned in Iowa is that we are all more alike than different. We can address the struggles of those in both inner-city Chicago and country Kentucky.
So when I read things like this:
So many elitist (yes, elitist) liberals will find all kinds of excuses for the prejudices of African-Americans or Latinos who have had hard lives and difficult family histories. They are more than willing to be understanding and compassionate for the shortcomings within those groups.
How very sad that they cannot find the time to learn the history of Appalachia and the white people who have struggled there for several hundred years. – skylark
Or this:
Toss rural America in the trash. Focus on the cities. Let the redneck cousin humpers drown. - Electro Robot
I get discouraged. Can we move this debate to a healthier place that doesn’t pit one marginalized group against another?