Comments on: The Other West Virginia

By: remote collar training

remote collar training — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:41:25 +0000

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By: Virginia Whitewater Rafting

Virginia Whitewater Rafting — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:03:36 +0000

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By: utsu

utsu — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:15:42 +0000

How about looking up some of the self-descriptions and polling answers to fears/prejudices against Obama being a factor in the voting? Every state has many aspects, and sometimes there are many outliers on top of a less gleaming electorate.Yes this is impressive and good to know. No it doesn’t convince me that Clinton voters are so more sensible than elitist, inferior LEFT-WING (GAZPPP!) democrats that the DNC should go against their registered voters and get Clinton a nomination that is as worthless to her as it is wasted for the DNC.

These are not straws that are being clutched at in your laughable attempts to claim VW going Clinton means teh pragmatic, well-behaved, sensible, non-elitist, aisle-reaching (yeah, remember her hubbie?), war-loving, media-fearing and moderate (that is, she will sell out DNC projects and expectations beacuse she fears friction) candidate isn’t ashen toast in your mouths. These are irrelevant filaments. She’s dead, as is your hopes for a non-uppity democrat candidate that whimpers and consults PR consultants when you smugly warn about "surrendering", "inexperience" and disenfranchised heartlanders.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:46:27 +0000

Just a quick addendum to this post: Don Surber tackles part of this subject on his blog today. A quick quote: Forget coal. The chief export of West Virginia is college graduates. I have a son teaching school in Korea and a niece teaching school in North Carolina. Most states swap college graduates. But until we have jobs for them, we won’t have many incoming college graduates.When it comes to K-12 education, West Virginians dig deep in their pockets. 49th in per capita income, West Virginia is 27th in spending per pupil.This is because West Virginia taxpayers dig deeper in their pockets for the their schools than most states. In school spending per $1,000 of personal income, West Virginia ranks eighth.We are above Massachusetts, California and 40 other states. The stats are here (Table 12). It's worth reading the whole thing.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:05 +0000

All these facts notwithstanding, you’re a racist if you’re white and vote against a black candidate, whereas the history of slavery means it’s OK for black voters to dismiss white candidates based on race.

If you believe that I’ve got some keen swampland to sell you. The past is interesting but irrelevant. Calling one sort of racism acceptable and demonizing another is the same sort of moral relativism that condones terrorism, etc., because of past wrongs.

Move on!