PA is either the first, third or fourth most rural state in the country, depending on how one measures ‘rural.’ By every definition, though, Pennsylvania is rural. Yes, there are the big cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and medium-sized ones like Erie, Harrisburg and Scranton, but outside of these limited areas, it’s a rural state.
While many have agreed with James Carville’s assessment of PA as Philly and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between, it isn’t as simple as that. Pennsylvania’s rural interior is actually fairly diverse socioeconomically. More on this in a later post, but Alabama it ain’t.
Pennsylvania Is Rural
– March 11, 2008Posted in: Pennsylvania
PA = OH
’nuff said!
Go Hill Go!
Re the Clinton campaign’s constant bellyache of deprecation and innuendo against Obama. Obama would not raise this matter himself – but that doesn’t mean we can’t. I hope it doesn’t cut too close to the bone . . . .
When Slippery Willy got caught double dipping nothing changed for him. The Clinton duo also slithered out from under investigations of the Whitewater financial shenanigans, even as the feds were selectively picking off their luckless co-conspirators. William Clinton lost neither his high appointment, nor did his career or his status, such as it was, seem to suffer in consequence. Neither has it precluded his elevation as Hillary’s voice in absentia on the 2008 presidential primary campaign trail.
The eerie acceptance of Clinton wrongdoing may have led them to suppose their constituents and potential constituents weren’t alert enough to notice such moral digressions, or have woefully short memories, or are just too brainless to comprehend the magnitude of the wrongdoing.
In that former case even a knee-trembling grand jury subpoena failed to prise out the Madison Guaranty files from the fearless Clintons and deliver said documents into the hands of the law. But, after having been barefacedly declared ‘lost’, the papers mysteriously, perhaps inadvertently, surfaced, in of all places, the Clinton’s private suite in the White House. The smooth pair somehow extricated themselves from even that potential nuclear event.
The Republican inspired impeachment proceedings against Clinton ultimately failed. It was not for want of evidence, but because the Democratic party was just too strong. The aftermath was that the Democratic Party suffered severely for both its leader’s failings, and for its own failure to respond to the will of the people.
This latest accidental exposure of high office sexual misconduct and financial chicanery in the case of the Democrat Governor of New York, is only the latest dip on the downward slide of morality in high office, and a further betrayal of the people. At least this pathetic miscreant had the decency to not try to lie his way out of it, and to resign the governorship – although, unlike Clinton, he probably recognised from the very start the evidence against him was unequivocal.
Despite her own history, the oft-demonstrated unmitigated gall of Hillary Clinton will probably encourage her to screech her own outrage at this further depressing breach of trust in positions of high office.
Obama is right, the cleanup of politics is long, long overdue. Pray God give us a President we can admire and be proud of.